I was in Istanbul a few years ago. Got blind stinking drunk with a couple of buddies, smoked a little hash in the hotel room, and decided to go find out about this place called "the compound" we had heard about.
We payed the cab driver God knows how much of their funny money to see how fast he would drive through traffic and went to this HUGE shopping mall like place filled with "shops" full of whores. They were all whorehouses, every one. There was nothing else except some food vendors in the street. It was sort of like Amsterdam's red light district crossed with an American style shopping mall. Very wild. Amazing to see thousands of women of all types; from girl-next-door to plain, from drop-dead-sexy to just plain ugly, from old to young, from fat to skinny. Very wild.
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--Some of us look for The Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.