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:...
In Thailand, a country globally branded through images of sexual permissiveness yet governed by deeply conservative public norms, the idea that nudity could be...
In the shadowy underbelly of Asia’s most prosperous colonial ports, a gendered trade flourished long before the term “human trafficking” entered law books or...
When the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, better known as CEDAW, was adopted by the United Nations General...