Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Jet Sex: Evading Censorious Internet At the Taipei International Airport
filed under: Jet Sex, We Are The Sex Media by Melissa Gira
Violating Terms of Service a-go-go, I’m finally on my way back to the States after two weeks ‘overseas’ as I kept telling the few folks with my phone number who still managed a call. (N.B.: that one can get perfect cell service in the ruins of Angkor Wat cannot be over-emphasized.)
Let’s try some sex news hunting from this very special Google, then, while we’re at it, this morning — afternoon? — evening? — special to Taiwan:
Nothing says American romance abroad like the International Herald Tribune, which offers this bit on Taiwanese roadside betel nut saleswomen charged by the Center for Disease Control to convey safer sex messaging. What’s nut selling have to do with sex?
…vendors often compete by staffing roadside sales booths with young women in bikinis, translucent blouses or nurse’s uniforms with miniskirts.
In Phnom Penh, ‘orange juice seller’ was polite for ‘transgender woman street sex worker,’ who ply juice as a way of not being hassled for loitering in the parks that serve as their stroll. What an amazing research project, matching goods sold euphemistically by sex workers with region to look for cross-cultural significance. (Yet again, Sexerati: coming up with your Master’s thesis so you don’t have to.)
And now, as my flight is being called, I have the perfect excuse to stop talking with this older gentlemen at the terminal next to me about how his grandchildren sent him up with a MySpace ‘but I have to get out of that!’ Oh, snap. See you for some sex American style soon enough.
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