A Moroccan Newspaper Zooms at Lesbianism in Morocco

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Casablanca- Daily newspaper Annass has recently cast light on a phenomenon one does not always come across in Moroccan media: lesbianism.

Annass sent two of its journalists on a mission to the Moroccan terra incognita of lesbianism to demystify this taboo, stigmatized sexual orientation.

The journalists’ mission was not as simple as ABC. Venturing in the uncharted sphere of homosexuality in Morocco proves to require more than the will and means. “The experience was at the edge of failure,” Annass describes its journalists’ venture.

The journalists’ venture began at a hairdressing salon, located at an exclusive area of Morocco’s city of lights, Casablanca. There, gorgeous, young masseuses provide their female clients with seemingly more than the customary pleasure relaxation.

According to the same source, some of the hairdressing salon’s clients make of it a meeting point, a bridge to discrete adventures that take place elsewhere, mostly in one of the client’s villas. The lesbians get beautiful first before embarking on their hush-hush, nocturnal gatherings.

Villas are not the only places where lesbians meet to loosen their sexual orientation, kept clandestine and stifled in the public sphere. Annass’s journalists went from the private, female-only hairdressing salons to more heterogeneous spheres, where other lesbians prefer to spend most of their time.

Bars and other public location in Morocco are also places frequented by lesbians. There, the daily’s journalists could even talk to one of them.

Laila, apparently a famous lesbian, according to Annass, told the undercover journalists that after she had experienced a normal social life and got married, she discovered that she was more attracted to her congeners, an attraction she could not resist subsequently putting into practice.

The sphere of homosexuality in Morocco is generally deemed as one of the taboo phenomena seldom talked about. In Morocco, like in any other country worldwide, citizens are divided as to their impression of homosexuality in general.

There is no study yet to know the percentage of Moroccans who approve of or reject homosexuality. However, many Moroccans contend that in a Muslim country, where religion overpowers secular thought, chances are that the greatest portion of the population rejects “deviant sexual orientations altogether.”