# Men expelled from Saudi Arabia for being just too good looking **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2013, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922 "2013-04-17T09:30:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/1 "2013-04-17T09:30:29Z")
[Really](http://gawker.com/5994825/men-deemed-too-handsome-deported-from-saudi-arabia-for-fear-they-would-be-irresistible-to-women). > [@](#): > > At least three men attending an annual culture festival in Saudi Arabia were kicked out of the country after religious police officers deemed them “too handsome” to stay. > > \ > > “A festival official said the three Emiratis were taken out on the grounds they are too handsome and that the Commission [for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vices] members feared female visitors could fall for them,” the Arabic-language newspaper Elaph reported this week. That’s got to make for great pick-up lines. “Hey baby, I’m so sexy I’ve been officially declared a _national threat_!” ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/2 "2013-04-17T10:06:15Z")
Happens me all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/3 "2013-04-17T10:07:50Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > That’s got to make for great pick-up lines. “Hey baby, I’m so sexy I’ve been officially declared a _national threat_!” You mean you haven’t? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/4 "2013-04-17T10:36:46Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > You mean you haven’t? 😃 Well, not for being _sexy…_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/5 "2013-04-17T10:39:17Z")
Laugh if you want, but it’s what has stopped me from visiting the Middle East. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/6 "2013-04-17T10:42:26Z")
That picture on top isn’t supposed to include them, is it? If so, then, yeah, I’d better stay away, too. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/7 "2013-04-17T10:51:43Z")
Was it [this guy](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ridiculously-photogenic-guy)? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/8 "2013-04-17T12:18:36Z")
They should have made the guys wear veils or otherwise cover their faces. It’s only fair. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/9 "2013-04-17T12:19:41Z")
I’m too sexy for my state, too sexy for my state. Deportation’s not too late, too sexy for my state. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/10 "2013-04-17T12:33:58Z")
Oh well, I never wanted to visit there anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/11 "2013-04-17T13:38:08Z")
Huh. I keep getting engraved invitations and prepaid plane tickets. Couldn’t be related, could it? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/12 "2013-04-17T14:13:51Z")
That article is useless without pictures of the men. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/13 "2013-04-17T14:15:28Z")
Please tell me a notation was made in their passports! Please, please, please! Also, I think the veil ideavhasvreal merit, goose/gander etc! ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/14 "2013-04-17T14:17:26Z")
Two riyals says that this turns out to be like the “farewell intercourse” Egyptian law from last year. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/15 "2013-04-17T14:19:53Z")
It wasn’t the _women_ they were worried would fall in love. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/16 "2013-04-17T14:28:02Z")
Um, was the person who decided that these men were too handsome male? Or do they have female Handsome Police who make the decision? I thought they had very specific things to say about homosexuality over there. ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/17 "2013-04-17T14:32:31Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > Um, was the person who decided that these men were too handsome male? Or do they have female Handsome Police who make the decision? I thought they had very specific things to say about homosexuality over there. It’s all good if you end the deportation order with “no homo”. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/18 "2013-04-17T14:38:08Z")
I’ve been kicked out of a lot of countries, but never for that. must be nice. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/19 "2013-04-17T14:49:46Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > Um, was the person who decided that these men were too handsome male? Or do they have female Handsome Police who make the decision? I thought they had very specific things to say about homosexuality over there. That’s why it’s surprising this happened in Saudi Arabia. Because denial’s in Egypt. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/20 "2013-04-17T14:56:23Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > That’s why it’s surprising this happened in Saudi Arabia. > > Because denial’s in Egypt. So who was the first guy to do this? Someone had to step forward and say ‘That guy is too handsome, we have to get rid of him.’ And everyone there just agreed with him? No one said ‘Um, Abdul, why do you think that guy is too handsome?’ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922.md?page=2)