Why?

Why do people seem to usually think the assholes standing on the sidelines and yelling "FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!" are tougher than the people in the middle of things and trying to break up the fight?

Weeding Out the Posers

The Grand Sultan's harem was nearly inaccessible. You get that a lot in a certain kind of aristocratic society. Of course, because the Grand Sultan was bogarting all the most beautiful women in the Sultanate, there was plenty of motivation for many a would-be Hero or horny teenager to break into the Harem to rescue one of the ladies (or just enjoy the hours before someone found out). But Sultans always have a use for Heroes and horny youngsters of a certain caliber. Thus the nearly.

For himself, of course, he kept the only key to the back door.