Jerry Hopkins, an American expat now living in Bangkok, has published more than 1,000 magazine articles and 36 books, including Asian Aphrodisiacs: From Bangkok to Beijing—the Search for the Ultimate Turn-on. He takes a gonzo approach to covering the things about Thailand and SE Asia that sometimes makes you smile and sometimes makes you pull our hair out. His website incudes a few previously published stories, The Ugly Truth About Elephants is both an eye-opener and funny, and Confessions of a Grumpy Old Expat is a humorous and insightful look into the expat mind – I love his description of the country as “ a runny-nosed kid in a counterfeit designer tee-shirt with his nose pressed to the window of a gold shop”.

The Meeting is a 11 minute low budget but intriguing gay short film shot in San Francisco and Alameda about a sexual encounter that raises doubts and questions from both sides involved.

Though you’ll have to take it with a grain of salt since it’s coming out of Germany, new research says when you partner whines, “Not tonight Honey, I have a headache” what he really means is, “Pound me until that pounding in my head goes away.”

The customs and social practices of Thailand driving you batty? You’ll fit right in then at this wat, as would my favorite massage board owner, but it is one of those Places In Thailand Jabba Has Never Heard Of.

With same-sex marriage becoming a reality, same-sex divorce can’t be far behind. For traditional marriages the number one reason for calling it quits is money. A woman in Taiwan is trailblazing what could become the #1 reason for gay guys to decide their partner just doesn’t measure up.

In China they’re into Japanese. Ditto for in Japan but there gay comes in at the #2 and #3 spot. While in Iran it’s all about gay daddy lovers. And surprisingly, in Thailand it’s not rich Farang. Porn search site PornMD has collected its most-used search terms for the last six months and accounted for them by location. Even by state for the US where Californians love getting off on Asians.

Eye Candy Alert: Mister Brazil 2013 will be elected on April 5th in Rio de Janeiro. I’d hate to be the judge who has to decide which of these 30 hunks wins. Unless I got to use the male beauty pageant version of a casting couch. Then every body would be a winner.

The instantaneous mass communication aspect of Twitter can be a good thing. People who don’t quite get the idea of TMI, not so much. But then again maybe your friends and family really do need live updates when you are at the hospital getting a dildo unstuck from your ass.

Though Iceland took the #1 spot, Thailand made the top ten in a list of the countries where as a tourist you can expect to meet friendly locals. You have to give the folks who came up with this list a hand for promoting it as the World’s Most Unfriendly Countries For Tourists. (From that perspective, Boliva wins.)

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