Sex Workers’ Kids: When Brothels Become Nurseries

In Southeast Asia’s red-light districts, mornings are quiet. Neon signs are switched off, doors half open to let the heat escape, floors washed, rice cooking somewhere in the back. Children…
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Dear Readers,

I’m Spicy Auntie, your ever-curious, ever-smiling hostess on this sizzling little corner of the internet.

I'm a proud Asian woman in my early 50s, born with strong opinions, a sharp tongue (used kindly!), and a big heart. Financially self-sufficient, emotionally independent, and intellectually insatiable. I read the news before my first sip of morning tea and fall asleep scrolling through research papers and scandalous threads alike.

Why am I here? Because Asia is my playground and my passion. I know her curves and corners—her languages, her customs, her unspoken rules. I’ve danced at weddings, cried at funerals, been blessed by monks, and been scolded by aunties even spicier than me. I know what goes unsaid in our homes and what’s too often silenced in our media.

This blog is my daily offering, a space where I can unpack it all: gender, sex, power, pleasure, pain, injustice, and hope. I talk about sexuality without shame, feminism without apology, and traditions without blindfolds. I’ll call out hypocrisy, laugh at mansplainers, and politely hand misogyny its walking papers. And yes, I’ll do it all with good grammar, a hint of irony, and the occasional wink.

I love men (especially when they’re kind, curious, and younger than me, what can I say?), but I’m also bisexual and happily open-minded. I don’t believe in binaries, and I certainly don’t believe in borders when it comes to love or justice. Mixed races, mixed couples, mixed ideas: that’s the kind of spicy stew I live for.

My audience? You! Whether you're an Asian woman seeking sisterhood, a curious Westerner trying to understand our part of the world, or a brave man learning to listen better, welcome. Just take off your shoes or wipe your feet before stepping in. No trolls, no bigots, no "not all men" tantrums allowed here.

Expect daily doses of truth, served hot. Topics range from today’s headlines to sex-related crimes, from centuries-old taboos, to village gossip or feminist theory. I won't hold back, but I’ll always stay respectful, unless serious topics are being treated by the press or politicians in a ridiculous way. Then I might just season you with a little sarcasm.

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Sex Workers’ Kids: When Brothels Become Nurseries

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Where Women Can Sleep Together as “Friends”

In Bangladesh, intimacy between women has long occupied a curious social middle ground: deeply visible, emotionally intense, and yet rarely read as sexual. Two young women walking...

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Over the past half-century, the language of love in Pakistan has not moved in a straight line from “traditional” to “modern.” Instead, it has bent, folded, and...

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Commentary

Sex Workers’ Kids: When Brothels Become Nurseries

February 6, 2026

I’ve lost count of how many times someone has leaned across a café table, lowered their voice, and said to me, “But what about the children?” as if they’ve just discovered a moral trump card. It’s always said with the same certainty: that any child anywhere near sex work must be damaged, corrupted, ruined. Full stop. End of discussion. Cue rescue vans, tearful press conferences, and policies written by people who have never spent a single morning in a red-light district when the sun is up. Here’s what those people...
Commentary

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February 6, 2026

Once, when I was younger and thought time was something you could borrow against the future, I fell in love with a Bangladeshi girl. It wasn’t dramatic in the way movies like to sell love. No declarations shouted into the rain. No running away. It was quieter than that. Softer. And because it was quiet, it lasted exactly as long as it was allowed to. We met in the ordinary spaces where women’s lives overlap: shared rooms, shared secrets, shared exhaustion. She had the kind of beauty that doesn’t announce...
Commentary

Want a Life Partner? Just Cross The Border

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I’m not surprised. Not even a little. Every time I hear someone gasp, “Young Koreans are dating foreigners now?” I want to hand them a mirror and ask if they’ve actually looked at the dating landscape lately. Because if romance were a housing market, Korea’s would be Seoul prime real estate: wildly overpriced, emotionally exhausting, and everyone keeps telling you it’s “normal” to suffer through it. Let’s be honest. Dating in Korea today is not about candlelight and long walks by the river. It’s about income brackets, apartment sizes, parental...
Commentary

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I’ve said enough about Kelantan. About its undang-undang zalim (cruel laws). About politicians who wrap intolerance in piety and call it governance. About moral policing that somehow never seems to catch corruption, domestic violence, or child marriage, but has laser focus on what adults do with their own bodies. Enough. I’m bored of lecturing power. Now it’s time to talk about the people being crushed under it. Because behind every “historic case” and every dry legal phrase like pertukaran jantina (gender change) is a human being who woke up that...
Commentary

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Sex Workers’ Kids: When Brothels Become Nurseries

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