As I only mention this as an aside, but l was in Luxor a few years ago, staying at the Winter Palace on the Corniche. I wanted a bottle of coke for my room (get dry and thirsty in the night, and don't trust even so-called bottled water.)
Outside, on the Corniche itself, (actually on the bit between the two lanes) was a small kiosk, which had Coca Cola logo's all over it.
I wandered over, and there was a long-ish queue of Egyptian men, lining up to buy cigarettes. While waiting my turn, a man sidled up to me and whispered " you like nice young girl for the night? Very young very fresh".
I declined, and he wandered off, only to circle round the kiosk and approach me from the other side, saying "you like nice young boy, then? I can arrange".
Also, over on the left bank, in the small villages there, I was propositioned twice once by a man holding a (seemingly teenage) girl by the arm, and once by a girl in a bakery.
So certainly in Luxor there was street action, although whether safe or desirable is a different question ( and no, I didn't partake)
