Some interesting points about expatriates and what they think about foreigners dating local women:

- most foreigners see the local women as very likely looking at you as a ticket out of the country
- foreign women can’t compete with the local women for the American men. And most of them were too old for the local men, who were almost all married by age 23. So, most of them wound up without any prospects for romance or sex in the country and they were pretty bitter about it.
- one rather optimistic foreign woman I met once told me – yes, the foreign men love the local girls, find them attractive, but they come back to us (meaning the foreign women) when they want someone who really understands them.
- unattractive foreign men, are able to meet women here who likely back home woudn’t give them the time of day. They knew this, and were very willing to take advantage of the situation.

As for what gay men did in the country, there was no legend or lore or rules. There had been one gay man who had been murdered in his apartment, apparently not a gay-related murder, but a robbery. And there was an older American man known to have paid for sex and taken young Uzbek men on holiday to Thailand and elsewhere. But, apparently, neither had left much of a legacy in the country, as their goings on were mostly done surreptitiously and kept hush-hush. Certainly, there was never anything in the history about a gay man turning straight in the country, though there were often cases of a foreign guy who everyone suspected was gay, but who went on very chaste dates with Uzbek women.  ¶ 4:10 AM