Sexuality

Inside the “Virgin Cleansing Myth” in India

The idea sounds medieval, yet it persists in the shadows of the modern world: the “virgin cleansing myth,” a dangerous belief that sexual intercourse...

When the Algorithm Boosts “Asian” Porn

Searches for "Asian" porn consistently rank among the most popular categories on Pornhub and other global adult platforms, sitting at the crossroads of race,...

China’s Gaming Industry Has a Sexism Problem

Sexism in gaming in China has become one of the industry’s most uncomfortable open secrets: hugely profitable, loudly denied, quietly defended, and increasingly difficult...

2025: A Scandalous Year For Thai Monks

In 2025, Thailand’s deeply revered Buddhist clergy found itself at the center of one of the most explosive moral crises in recent memory, as...

India: A Porn Superpower in the Shadows

India does not appear anywhere in Pornhub’s official Year in Review for 2024, yet independent web-traffic analytics consistently place it among the largest porn-consuming...

Hentai Keeps Winning The World’s Digital Sex War

Japan’s long cultural fascination with erotic imagination has pushed “hentai” to the top of Pornhub’s global search rankings for four consecutive years, reshaping not...

When Chinese Toys Start Talking About Sex

It sounds like something out of a sci-fi cautionary tale — cuddly AI toys made in China that not only ‘talk’ about sex and...

Femboys and Asia’s Digital Gender Revolution

Scroll through TikTok, Reddit, or Instagram long enough and a familiar keyword keeps resurfacing: Asian femboy. Equal parts aesthetic, identity, and quiet rebellion, the...
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Commentary

Millions of Parents Turn to Apps to Marry Off Kids

February 27, 2026

Oh darling, of course the parents downloaded the app. You really thought the generation that survived ration coupons, housing reforms, exam wars, property bubbles, and the one-child policy was going to sit quietly while their precious only son announces he’s “focusing on himself”? Please. These aunties did not endure thirty years of sacrifice for their family tree to end in a one-bedroom rental with a houseplant named Kevin. Let’s be honest: this isn’t about romance. It’s about security, face, continuity, and the deeply rooted belief that adulthood equals marriage. For...
Commentary

Lesbians vs. Trans Women: When Minorities Fight

February 27, 2026

Ah, sisters. We have this extraordinary, almost Olympic-level ability to divide ourselves and fight the wrong battles while the house is literally on fire. Look around the world. Women’s bodily autonomy is being rolled back. LGBTQ people are criminalised from Kampala to Kuala Lumpur. Authoritarian governments are policing classrooms, bedrooms, and wombs. Economic inequality is widening. Domestic violence shelters are underfunded. Online misogyny is algorithmically turbocharged. And yet here we are — sharpening our claws for each other. I’m not saying these questions about sex, gender, identity, and lesbian space...
Commentary

Family WhatsApp Groups Are Watching Us

February 26, 2026

Let me tell you something about family WhatsApp groups, darlings. They are not innocent. They are not “just for updates.” They are mini-parliaments, surveillance hubs, emotional labor factories, and occasionally — digital crime scenes. I belong to several. Of course I do. Big Asian family, remember? Aunties, uncles, cousins, nieces, the whole orchestra. Every morning: flowers, blessings, good-morning GIFs that sparkle like they were designed in 2003. And who sends them? The women. Always the women. Because apparently even in cyberspace, it’s our job to keep the peace, keep the...
Commentary

A Day in The Life of a Patpong Girl

February 26, 2026

I have walked through Patpong more times than I can count — in heels, in flats, in righteous feminist anger, and occasionally just in anthropological curiosity. And let me tell you something: if you think a “Patpong girl” is a fantasy character invented for lonely men on holiday, you have understood absolutely nothing. She is a migrant worker. She is a remittance machine. She is an informal economist with better negotiation skills than half the men in Bangkok’s financial district. When people say “bar girl,” I always want to ask:...
Commentary

Club Bosses: Asia’s Nightlife Queens

February 25, 2026

I have a soft spot for women who own the night. Over the years — from Manila’s humid backstreets to Bangkok’s neon arteries and Jakarta’s stubbornly defiant dance floors — I’ve met many of them. Some became sources. Some became drinking buddies after closing time. A few became lifetime friends. And let me tell you something: these women are among the toughest people I know. You don’t survive decades in clubs and discos by being delicate. You survive because you can read a room in three seconds flat. Because you...
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