What my mother told me...

If something more had actually happened, I doubt your mother would have been able to talk about it, let alone brought up the subject herself.
 
It was probably an exaggerated story or shady vendors (side business, stolen items, terrible quality, etc.). Your mom wouldn't have shared a tame version of her sexual assault.
 
Surely they all gang raped your mom while they forced your dad to watch and jack off to it. :rolleyes:
 
nefarious

The situation sounds like something that was not wise to pursue but there is certainly no reason to presume that something nefarious happened.

Egypt in the 1970's was more secular than it is today - which means there is a fighting chance that women were not held in such low regard.

In any event I think maybe you have been watching too many formulaic movies. Do you know what is down most dark alleys at night? Nothing. Do you know what happens when pretty girls go to the wrong side of town? Nothing. Do you know what happens to most reporters who take huge risks in war zones? They get a few scrapes and come home healthy with a good story.

All those things are dangerous and should be avoided because there is a substantially heightened risk of harm. But increasing the chance of rape from .01% to 10% is a thousand fold increase yet still only 1 in 10 chance of something bad happening.
 
interesting

It is quite interesting that your mother could tell you part of the story b ut wasn't able to convey the meat of the experience. My guess would be that there was an offer or even a sample of a "show" that she could not bring herself to describe. My guess, BTW, is based on stories of veterans in foreign lands who saw shows of sexual natures that blew their mid-western minds.
Is or was your mother pretty strait-laced as far as you are aware?
 
Yeah. That was my first thought. Why would she even tell you that part of the story at all and then leave you hanging? If something "bad" happened I doubt she would have told you anything.
 
I too wonder why she told only part of the story. Maybe nothing more happened, they bought fragrance and left and that was it.
Maybe more occured, but she only reported the soft part, I do not know, one of the reasons I am here to get some opinions.
Mother is not straitlaced at all, though she is not exaggerated openminded. For example, she did topless sunbathing. I always saw her as a pretty normal person.

It is almost certain that something pretty significant happened since she remembered the incident. We generally remember things that smack us up along side the head.
 
Were you born around nine months after this incident? She might be leading up to telling you something......
 
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