This essay is a contribution to Incendiary Traces , a conceptually driven, community generated art project lead by artist Hillary Mushkin. Incendiary Traces is holding a series of site-specific draw-ins taking place across Southern California. Artbound is following the draw-ins and publishing related materials as the project develops. A report on the tour and trace of the Base will be published in the upcoming weeks. In the desert landscape of Indio, California, now home to the Coachella Music Festival , served as a backdrop for a quite different event. Several high school-aged girls from the surrounding area met at a county fair to see which one of them would make the transition from pageant princess to queen.
Harem Girls and Camel Races: Middle Eastern Fantasies in the Deserts of Southern California
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The royal harem is a part of certain aristocratic courts , and can serve as both a setting and a plot driver for various stories. The combination of sex, forbidden-ness, and exoticism that fictional harems often represent has led to them showing up in numerous stories over the years. Sometimes, harems exist in fiction simply because authors want to add some sex to the story, and what better way to do that than include a whole place dedicated to sexual gratification? Harems in such stories will be generally be full of beautiful young women with insatiable sexual appetites , and will probably serve little plot function but to get the hero laid. Many such harems take place in settings with Eternal Sexual Freedom.