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What???!!! No more whore houses in the Maldives -- a luxury destination where rooms for the well-heeled can run $12,000 a night?! What is the world coming to ... not to mention the loss of tourist income?
Luckily, the ban on 'spas,' which was instigated by an opposition Islamist party, is widely expected to be revoked. There's just too much money to be made. (As an associative query in this matter, when does a "whore house" turn into a "spa?" Is there some Jesuitical forum that can sift and separate and lay down a ruling?)
Anyway, I don't know about you, but I am breathing a sigh of relief. Standards, after all, must be upheld, and what more reputable standard is there than m-o-n-e-y? Religious conviction seldom makes much money ... unless, of course, it is turned into a whore house... or should I say, "spa?" :)
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A similar transition takes place when gentrification comes to rural America. The general stores become gift shops.
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