Michael Coyne’s Excellent Singapore Adventure
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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.
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