This sign is posted in all dressing rooms in the UAEIt is hard for foreigners to understand the level of modesty here in the Middle East. As this sign points out, it is against the law to undress fully in any public area including all-male or all-female locker rooms. That's right...if my towel fell off in the ladies' locker room at the Hilton, I will have committed a crime. Falling towels are illegal and I could go to jail. This modesty is not just for ladies either. My sources tell me that local males don't use urinals unless they are enclosed in a stall...and I'm thinking that is pretty much all I need to say about that.
As I mentioned in my last blog, the "incident on the beach" has caused a huge crackdown by the vice squad along with a lot of public awareness programs to refresh our knowledge of the local laws. In the next post, I will share with you the latest information from this week's paper....
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