News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. Here it is forbidden for women even to venture out with an sleeveless top on, as showing skin is provocative in Muslim culture. So is dancing and pop music. To drink alcohol is one of the ultimate sins, yet Brits head to Dubai with three things in mind — to strip off and get a tan, get trashed and have sex.
There are at least , Brits living here and it attracts a further three million British holidaymakers a year. One Brit to feel the wrath of the Dubai authorities is expat Rebecca Blake.
The year-old got so hammered on a ten-hour drinking binge two weeks ago that she was arrested. She claims to have had alcohol amnesia, but a taxi driver says she was getting naked in the back of his car with a male pal, prompting the driver to turn them in to the cops. In Dubai most of the drinking is done at clubs and bars inside hotels. The country has also become an international sex centre, where girls brazenly sell themselves to Westerners in the downtown bars.
Within the first hour most punters are plastered. For one middle-aged woman it is all too much, and she slumps asleep on a chair in the smoking area by 2pm. As the sound mingles with the staccato throb of the pumping dance music, it is an eerie reminder for Brits that they are a long way from home.
Inside, at the prostitute-ridden York Bar, girls grab men the moment they walk in, some even putting their hands inside their trousers. In broken English they coo crude offers of sexual acts. Asking some their nationalities reveals there are girls from Thailand, Ethiopia, Russia, Belarus, Estonia and the Philippines.
