He used to fantasize about the boys at an Italian school across the street when laid up in a hospital in Tangier, and often watched them with his binoculars. On one occasion, he and a friend paid two Arab boys sixty cents to have sex in front of them. "We demanded semen too," Burroughs later wrote, "no half-assed screwing." Burroughs has said that "homosexuality is a worldwide economic fact. In poor countries - like Morocco and parts of Italy - it's one of the big industries, one of the main ways in which a young boy can get somewhere."