Dubai is a progressive city, ever expanding and innovating. The liberal visa policies and relaxed rules in Dubai attract huge numbers of people every month who arrive in the Emirate for work, visit and fun. Some have different and often lewd definitions of these terms than others. There is a dark side to Dubai about which every resident expat, and visitor should know and avoid as much as possible. Once such aspect is prostitution in Dubai. Prostitution, fornication and adultery are illegal and punishable crimes in UAE.
Prostitution in Dubai is alive and kicking, as strongly as the desert sun that shines in the day. There was a report published in Nigerian Political Economist that narrated accounts of Nigerian women working as prostitutes in Dubai.
These women, some in their twenties and thirties flock to Dubai with tourist visa, operate as commercial sex workers for months and use the money to buy goods for sale in Nigeria.
The report mentioned Astraf Hotel and Rhami Hotel in Deira as part of Dubai sex market where Nigerian women work as commercial sex workers.
Their clients are mainly visiting African men including Nigerians, Asians and Arabs. Nigerian women for reasons bordering on hardship at home have found a lucrative trade in the Dubai sex market.
