The eroticism of poverty

General - Fall 2008
Text: Edwin Reinerie Images: l’iskander, beurs appart’
Parisian maxime cervulle is writing his phd on the sexual fascination of western gays for arab boys. And the lack of any further relationship between the two.

November 2005. Riots break out in the French suburbs, the banlieues. The poor and predominately post-colonial North African population is sick of its suffering. By setting fire to cars and warehouses and seeking confrontations with the police, French youths with Algerian, Tunisian and Moroccan blood flowing through their veins cry out, drawing attention to the poverty and hopelessness that so inescapably fill the banlieues...