WOW !!!!! Big life changing stuff for what in our terms (yes, I know we are running under UAE law and I respect that) is a very minor transgression. This "illegal sex" and co-habitation issue is probably my greatest worry about dubai.

We are all human and red blooded so how do people cope with this law ? Drugs no problem, drink driving no problem, everything else no problem - it is all common sense and stuff you should not do anyway but life would be miserable without normal human contact so how do people get around it ? Surely you don't have to scuttle off into the shadows or go camping in the desert to have a girlfriend ?

The question is not a sleazy one, it is meant very seriously :-) I am looking to come to dubai maybe as early as 1st March if the company can pull it's finger out so I am frantically trying to learn as much as I can.

For example - if you have two rooms, is having a female flat mate living in the other room still classed as co-habitation ?