When Malaysia’s Federal Court quietly struck down Section 498 of the Penal Code in December, the headline sounded almost quaint: a colonial-era law criminalising...
In a political landscape long dominated by aging male leaders, patronage networks and ritual nods to inclusion, Nepal has just witnessed something genuinely new....
In South Korea, where dating apps, livestream culture, and monetized intimacy have long overlapped, a new and unsettling format has recently burst into public...
Neon lights, paper lampions, cigarette smoke, clinking beer bottles, and the slow, confident walk of men in dresses: for several decades in postwar Singapore,...
In Japan a quiet demographic shift is steadily reshaping the country’s idea of marriage: the rise of 'gray divorces,' separations among couples who have...
In China’s tightly managed digital ecosystem, fame built on intimacy is among the most fragile. The sudden disappearance of a self-styled “sexual intelligence” guru...
The arrest of the boss of Natural, one of Japan’s most notorious 'scout' groups, has sent shockwaves through Tokyo’s nightlife districts and reignited a...
