Forbidden Fruit

One of the most utterly tasteless and comedically brilliant moments in Woody Allen's body of work occurs during the "What's My Perversion" game show parody in the film Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTWJwToMh3E

(SPOILER ALERT: watch the clip before reading on!!!)

At the end of the show an elderly Rabbi gets to live out his perverted fantasy and is bound to a chair while a tall Aryan woman whips him and his wife kneels at his feet and eats pork.

Besides dealing with submission, domination, and humiliation Mr. Allen is speaking directly to the human desire to taste of the forbidden fruit, perceived as being so delicious and desireable precisely because of its unattainable nature.

During the last week or so I've watched as this predisposition is playing itself out right here at The Blob. Using Site Meter I can track how many hits my site has and what country they originate from and it so happens that traffic from Arab countries (Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria etc.) is way up! We're talking zero to dozens in the space of a few days and it wasn't long before I figured out why. The image at left from a May 22nd, 2007 post about the absence of Jewish porn has been flying around Arab cyberspace faster than a suicide bombers head after a "martyrdom event".

"What's up with that??" I asked myself and sure enough after a bit of internet research I had my answer courtesy of the following article:

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict apparently does not disturb and even encourages Arab internet users from consuming kosher Hebrew porn. Operators of a number of porn sites report that between two and 10% of their users arrive from Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Jordan, Egypt, and the Palestinian Authority. Some websites even go as far as offering services in Arabic.

In the past several months we see an increase in traffic from countries that have no diplomatic ties with Israel including Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Egypt," Shahar said.
Due to the demand, Shahar added an Arabic version of the site. Looking at photos
"We get hundreds of hits from surfers that live in countries where porn is prohibited," said Gil Naftali owner and operator of another Hebrew sex site, SexV. "We don't have an Arabic version because users log in to watch photos and video clips that require no explanations."

According to site statistics, last month there were over 2,000 hits from Riad, the capital of Saudi Arabia. The average time a Saudi surfer spends on SexV is 17:23 minutes.

Data also shows that 10 percent of the visitors to the most popular sex site in Israel, Domina, are Arabic speakers. "That is because we offer content in their language," said Tzahi who operates the site.

It seems as though Arabs have been googling "Jewish Porn" and are being directed to the May 22nd Blob post. They in turn tell their friends and relatives all over ther Middle East, Europe, and N. America and voila....my readership numbers have skyrocketed. A hearty Salaam Aleikum to all my Arab brethren. Who knew that a little bit of kosher ass would help bridge the gap between our two great peoples!!