Citebeur Review

Now, I speak a little French , but the sitename Citebeur didn't make immediate sense to me beyond knowing that "cité" means "city." Then I dug around a bit and discovered that "les Beurs" is slang for "second-generation Arab immigrants to France" and it has quite a colorful history. But first let me say that the sitename loosely translates to "Arab City."

I mentioned a checkered past in using "les Beurs" and I can tell you that it remains controversial in some circles, as it has been used by xenophobes in a derogatory sense even though the term was initially coined by an antiracism movement. Citebeur falls in the middle I'd say, because it isn't breaking down any stereotypes. Rather the content owns up to them and makes them sexy.

It's like ebony sites using the term "thug," which is both used by racists and has been co-opted within black culture in the same way that "gangsta" can denote being cool even if it also implies that someone is a dangerous lawbreaker. Similar to thug porn, the young men here are portrayed as nasty bad boys hooking up with dudes on the down-low for rough sex bordering on brutal.