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Why Airbnb ain’t my cup of tea

By Isham Cook on November 28, 2015 • ( 4 Comments )

The ambiguous host/guest boundary in many Airbnb households makes for most inhospitable stays.

Macau and the writer: A photo essay

By Isham Cook on August 9, 2015 • ( 3 Comments )

Photo essay of old Macau with nudes and choice literary quotations.

American rococo

By Isham Cook on August 3, 2015 • ( 5 Comments )

The rococoesque beauty of the American ghetto and the obese.

The question of breeding (why foreign men get the “ugly” Chinese girls)

By Isham Cook on July 22, 2015 • ( 3 Comments )

Tongue-in-cheek explanation (with more than a grain of truth) of why it’s so hard to land a Chinese beauty.

At the Teahouse Café: Essays from the Middle Kingdom

By Isham Cook on May 7, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

What decades of living in China have taught this American expat.

The many faces of Chinese “face”

By Isham Cook on March 15, 2015 • ( 4 Comments )

Chinese “face” and Chinese “apathy” reconsidered in dynamic relationship.

The breast etiquette project

By Isham Cook on February 23, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

A civilized approach to men’s obsession with the breasts.

Honesty, diligence, obedience: Why I support China’s Great Firewall

By Isham Cook on February 10, 2015 • ( 9 Comments )

An openminded appreciation of the Great Firewall of China.

Massage and the Writer: Essays on Asian Massage

By Isham Cook on December 30, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

What if the antagonistic aspects of the massage practice—the therapeutic and the erotic—were seen as inseparable?

A massage school

By Isham Cook on December 29, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

There is no such thing as strictly nonsexual massage: massage is always already erotic.

The curious benefits of neurosis

By Isham Cook on December 29, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Crucially, she has the “touch.” Love in her hands.

Coffee and massage in Burma

By Isham Cook on November 17, 2014 • ( 1 Comment )

Burma’s burgeoning massage and café industries considered in tandem.

My lovely little oriental doll: On yellow fever

By Isham Cook on October 21, 2014 • ( 1 Comment )

On the triteness of the “yellow fever” and “Asian fetish” clichés.

When poets speak of death: 100 aphorisms and epigrams on massage

By Isham Cook on June 30, 2014 • ( 1 Comment )

“When poets speak of death, they call it the place without breasts.”

Men massaging men: Three countries

By Isham Cook on May 20, 2014 • ( 4 Comments )

I am drawn to the seedy establishments, poorly lit portals to the underworld, busy inside with silent activity, chess games of intimate squalor.

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