Whatcha gonna do when the Hulkster runs wild on you?
Hulkamaniacs are having to decide after the gossip website Gawker posted a sex tape showing Hulk Hogan (aka Terry Gene Bollea) in bed with Heather Clem, his best friend’s wife. Now, defending America and his own privacy, the wrestling star is suing Gawker for $100 million. H/T SourceFed
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Dixieland jazz bands wail at New Orleans funerals. Green activists are now clamoring to be buried in bio-degradable cardboard coffins. In Taiwan, another unusual funeral rite has become popular — strippers dancing for the dead, and consoling the living, by performing on movable Electric Flower Cars that join funeral processions en route to the graveyard.
This practice originated in rural districts of Taiwan, but has spurred more debate since appearing in Taipei, Taiwan’s capital. Marc L. Moscowitz has now documented the phenomenon in a film called Dancing for the Dead: Funeral Strippers in Taiwan. He interviews academics, journalists, government officials and the strippers themselves to try to make sense of what’s at stake. Here is an excerpt.
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For decades, the late Jimmy Savile was idolized and lionized in Great Britain, hailed for his charity work, knighted by the Queen in 1990 and honored with a Papal knighthood by Pope John Paul II, also in 1990. The flamboyant host of the BBC’s Top of the Pops show introduced many of the leading musical acts of the 1960s. Later, he unveiled a new show, Jim’ll Fix It, in which he arranged for the wishes of his viewers, mainly children, to come true.
Now, in the wake of Savile’s death last fall, allegations have surfaced that his interest in children was hardly altruistic. More than 60 victims have stepped forward to claim he molested them. The victims paint a portrait of a serial and heinous pedophile, who used his position of authority to rape, fondle and brutalize young girls, some barely 12 or 13 at the time. It’s a case akin to the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal at Pennsylvania State University, but even creepier, because Saville’s targets were younger, more vulnerable and much more numerous.
Here is a chilling 50-minute documentary called Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, in which former detective Mark Williams-Thomas investigates a few of the mounting allegations. The probe raises serious questions about complicity on the part of BBC officials in covering up Saville’s transgressions. Does one’s celebrity status place one above the law, free to prey upon the weakest in society? Apparently so. H/T Ed Driscoll
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Why are women around the world undergoing extreme makeovers so they can look like Barbie dolls or Japanese anime nymphettes? Next Media Animation out of Taiwan introduces a few of the women on the forefront of this New Wave of fashion, including Valeria Lukyanova and Anastasiya Shpagina, from Ukraine, and China’s walking-talking Barbie dolls Wang Jia Yun 王嘉韻, Koko Wang 王尒可 and Tina Leopard 蒂娜.
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Here is a make-up tutorial by the 19-year-old Shpagina, showing how she does a makeover for Valentine’s Day. It takes her about a hour to transform herself into a real-life anime character. Although on her v.k. page (Europe’s answer to Facebook), she writes, “I’m not a like a doll, a doll is like me.”
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Get up close and personal with Wang Jia Yun, 17, who resembles a living, breathing blow-up doll. Born in Kowloon, Hong Kong, she’s now studying in Shenzhen, China.
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Conservative pundit Lee Doren dissects an Obama campaign flyer that attacks Mitt Romney’s and Paul Ryan’s positions on birth control. Point by point, Doren shows how the flyer misrepresents and exaggerates the true Romney/Ryan positions in a false effort to portray the Republicans as waging a war on women. H/T Small Dead Animals
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Visit the Mosuo, a culture in southwestern China that is one of the world’s last remaining matriarchal societies. Marriage is shunned among these people living near Shangri-La in Yunnan Province. Instead, women practice what they call “walking marriage.” Here’s how it works: “A man walks into the women’s bedroom at night and she decides if she wants him to stay. In the morning, he must leave.” H/T the ifilestv
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Bulgarian filmmaker Mimi Chakarova has spent a decade and traveled to nine countries researching and shooting her documentary The Price of Sex, following the trails of destitute Eastern European women duped into serving as prostitutes in the Middle East and Europe. Here are two excerpts, featuring interviews with women held hostage at brothels in Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
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The Love Joule, a new bar in Japan, caters exclusively to women eager to unleash their inner pussies. Say what?
It’s a love and sex bar, with a vibrator-themed decor, encouraging women to open up with each other and talk freely about masturbation — a topic once taboo in Japan. No telling if it’s the frank talk or the sex-toy displays that attract patrons, or the fact that single men are forbidden inside. As one customer told a blogger, “I go because it is a safe place and I don’t have to worry about trying to brush off men all the time.”
So, for women who want to let their fingers do the walking, fan the fur or hitchhike south, the Love Joule might be just the place — or, at least, a good hangout to discuss tickling the taco and parting the Red Sea.
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Meanwhile, all those stray single men might be drifting over to Tokyo’s cuddle cafe — where you pay about $77 an hour to lie down in a bed with a woman. For $13 extra, she will stare at you or give you a foot massage.
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In a new edition of AsapSCIENCE, Mitchell Moffit explains everything you wanted to know about orgasms, but were too afraid to ask. Most interesting are how men’s and women’s brains shut down differently following sexual arousal. As Moffit asks, “Who knew science could be so sexy?”
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