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I wanted to call your attention to the first post by a new contributor, the distinguished Black Star photographer Michael Coyne. Coyne describes a harrowing business trip to Singapore — which, despite its reputation for cleanliness, order and discipline, has a red-light district that ranks with the best (worst) of them.
Coyne’s story, of course, is illustrated with some, uh, colorful photography, like the shot above.
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I’m in Taiwan at the moment and I can tell you that it is very similar in many ways.
Here, the big thing is the betelnut girls (see link- http://taiwan.8m.net/betelnut.html).
These girls range from simply bored looking women in regular street clothes, to women who would appear to be fresh off the stage in a strip club. Some even sit in the booths naked, save for a mesh or lace shirt and skirt… it’s quite a site. The betelnut stands have bright flashing lights and can be seen from great distances. It’s something to be seen to believe.
Tim, I checked it out; that IS pretty fascinating.
For the curious:
Betelnut-tagged pics on Flickr