Ummjake, that may be so. As I said: "At least that's been my experience."

I've heard of one Qatari father reporting his own son to the police for homosexual behavior. But I've met perhaps a dozen guys who've had 'fun' in their youth, and their parents would either be particularly stupid or particularly tolerant, since nothing was ever said.

Perhaps the families that allow their sons to hang around with white western guys are typically more liberal?

I can't claim to have had known a scientific sample of Qataris, but of those I have known, their fathers, mothers, brothers and friends have all been well aware of what happens on a boys weekend at Sealine....