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...kicking the guilt. You can thank satellite television and globalization, and don't forget to say a sincere hosanna to the Internet, which not only allows wired Asians to hook up but also to find out about whatever may titillate or tantalize them. There is, it seems, a chat room for anything and everyone. Spouses seeking greater satisfaction, singles who don't want to wait until marriage, cohabitors, minority groups such as gays, lesbians, spankers, even the pimply schoolboy wondering if autoerotism is ruining his complexion - in today's Asia, there's never been a better time...
...Asia's sexual revolution is being driven by images from the West - Mitch Buchannon's Baywatch babes, Rose and Jack's steamy coupling on the doomed Titanic - and liberating new phenomena such as Internet chat rooms. Not that the West invented sexual freedom. Medieval Asian courts were the originals for Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion. Ancient India produced the Kama Sutra, setting an all-time sexiness standard for religious texts. China's Tao, or "The Way," cemented for centuries the uniquely Chinese concept that spiritual fulfillment demands good sex - and lots of it. The I Ching named...
...prosecuted until 1991, openly gay men rest their drinks on color-coded coasters. Red means you're looking for a "chubbie," green means you're not, blue signifies that any type will do. In South Korea, which has a seriously severe side, 32-year-old cyberstud Andy trolls the chat rooms to make assignations with single and married women. His success rate: about one a week. (Never on weekends, though, because that's when he meets, and sleeps with, his girlfriend.) "I am a healthy young man filled with a healthy sexual drive," Andy declares. "I am very normal...
...hour coffee shops, it's not unusual to see flamboyantly attired drag queens enjoying a late night snack. By day, the café at the Borders bookstore downtown is a popular gay hangout. Those who prefer to stay in the closet can find refuge in numerous websites and Internet chat groups run by local gay activists. "Singapore is probably the safest place to live in Asia now", says Shen, a gay playwright...
...while many of them take heart from the fact that other major Asian cities like Taipei and Hong Kong have scrapped laws criminalizing gay behavior, it may be years before Singaporean society is ready for such a change. Put it this way, despite numerous complaints, angry messages posted in chat rooms and heated debate on a radio show, that banner at the Church of Our Saviour in Queenstown is still flapping in the breeze...