Tokyo’s neon-lit streets and crowded hostess clubs (キャバクラ, kyabakura) and 'soaplands' districts disguise a public health story few outsiders expect: the resurgence of syphilis...
When Indonesia’s revised Criminal Code came fully into force in January 2026, international headlines warned that tourists in Bali could be jailed for sex...
Across Southeast Asia, the sudden general contraction of international aid in 2025 landed not as an abstract budget problem but as a dramatic emergency,...
In a country where marriage is still overwhelmingly shaped by patriarchy, caste, family pressure and male initiative, there is a corner of India where...
In Indian popular imagination, few figures are as overburdened with symbolism as the sex worker—and no machine has shaped that symbolism more powerfully than...
In South Korea, cosmetic surgery, beauty treatments, and appearance management have quietly become part of the modern career toolkit, as essential to some jobseekers...
