If Mao-era aesthetics feel strangely sexy in today’s Beijing clubs, photoshoots, and subcultures, it’s because they behave exactly like every other forbidden power costume...
Visitors arrive in Bhutan already expecting penises. Travel blogs, Instagram reels, and “quirky Asia” listicles have trained the Western eye to hunt for phallic...
On a dusty football ground in eastern India, where cheers echo louder than whistles and floodlights struggle against the evening haze, a quiet sporting...
The high valleys and rugged ridgelines of Papua New Guinea’s Highlands see frequent inter-clan wars. In those isolated areas, conflict has long been part...
If you don’t speak Cantonese, flirting in Hong Kong sounds almost aggressively innocent. People ask if you’ve eaten, whether you’re tired, if you’re free...
In Singapore, a city often praised for efficiency, safety and social order, a quieter and more unsettling phenomenon has been growing in the shadows:...
