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28 Sunday Sep 2014
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28 Sunday Sep 2014
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28 Sunday Sep 2014
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China, South Korea, and Japan still hold the top three medal count spots with Day #9 of the 17th Asian Games finished – with 199, 123, and 115 respectively.
Malaysia now has 17, with three gold medals; Burma finally won another medal for a total of three, two of which are gold; Thailand picked up two more and has 12, two golds and the rest bronze – the latest gold for the kingdom was won in women’s sepak takraw on Sunday; Vietnam has 27 with one gold; Singapore won another for a total of 12, one of which is gold; and Indonesia has one gold too for a total of 10.
With one week into the Games 17 world records have been set, which is a record in itself. At the last Asian Games in 2010 only three athletes posted a world record time or score.
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27 Saturday Sep 2014
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Rather than ponder why a Thai woman reads Stickman’s column, check out her reader’s submission on The Class System in Thailand, switch around a few pronouns, and discover why your boy toy will never make it in high society.
Meet Dale Decker, a man who suffers from Persistent Genital Arousal Syndrome and experiences about 100 orgasms a day. He says his life is a living hell and his condition is so embarrassing he hates to leave his house. Sounds to me like someone needs to move to Pattaya. Few would notice and those who do would consider him a god.
Because edumacation is always a good thing: A Porn Star’s Guide To Finding & Massaging Your Man’s Prostate.
This week’s NSFW Tumblr link shows as ‘Untitled’ but its web addy says it’s Asian Bum Lover, and I can’t think of another part of the body more worthy of one’s devotion. Okay, well I can. But I like bums. If you prefer heads, there’s plenty of the flip-side too. (And you can just ignore that horse video clip; when it comes to bestiality, Just Say Neigh.)
Here’s What Intercourse And French Kissing Looks Like During An MRI Scan.
Personally, I like a man with hairy armpits and think those who shave theirs just look wrong, but I guess there are a few unexpected benefits from that form of manscaping.
Leonardo da Vinci was an artist extraordinaire and gave the world the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and the Vitruvian Man. He was also fond of doodling penis.
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27 Saturday Sep 2014
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With Day #8 of the 17th Asian Games concluded the leaders in medals continue to be China, South Korea, and Japan, at 186, 110, and 108 respectively. So at least for now South Korea’s #2 place is legit.
Vietnam won another medal and now has 26, Thailand did too and has a grand total of 10, as did Indonesia which now has 9. Malaysia, Burma, Laos, and Singapore failed to win any medals on Day #8.
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26 Friday Sep 2014
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Maybe it’s those puppy dog eyes. Or his youthful appeal. That he’s more often than not buck-ass naked probably has a lot to do with it too. Whatever the reason, I run across photos of Jake Ng Ming Han often on the internet, and invariably save them to my hard drive when I do. And then later when I rediscover them there usually think, “Oh, it’s that guy again.”
So I thought I should gather those photos all together and do an Eye Candy post. It was only then that I realized how many of him I’ve collected over the years. There’s enough to do several Eye Candy posts. And a week or two worth of daily Nude Dude posts too.
It was also only after I started culling through those photos for today’s post that I found a name to put to that body. Not that I found out much more about him. But with an name came both his Facebook and Instagram accounts – and more photos – and reading between the lines it’s obvious the boy is gay. And from Singapore. And needs to do a new photo shoot wearing his glasses ‘cuz he’s really, really adokably cute in eyewear. I also discovered he owns a pair of red crocs. But I won’t hold that against him.
It’s been enough years since I first saw one of his shots that I thought he might be one of those whose photos are still making the rounds but who has aged well past their prime. But the boy has held up amazingly well and still flashes that boyish look. I assume he rose to fame when he hit puberty, but that bit of renown spread when he became a Singapore Manhunt finalist in 2008. Even more so when during that contest nude photos of him were leaked to the press.
Those photos, he says, were from a photo shoot he did for an Australian photographer two years earlier. In the man’s hotel room. He claimed that he had agreed to the shoot initially because the photographer had told him it was a trial shoot for an ad campaign for a brand of jeans. Midway through the shoot, Jake claims the photographer asked him to remove his clothes. “I didn’t want to,” he says. “I was uncomfortable and reluctant. I got suspicious. I told him I did not think it was necessary since the ad was for jeans.”
The photographer offered to increase Jake’s fee for the shoot from $1,800 to $4,000, and Jake succumbed to the promise of fame. ‘I thought it was my big break,’ he said.
Jake’s nude photos surfacing during the male beauty pageant was quite a scandal at the time; even the police became involved. He didn’t win, but the director of the contest said the scandal did not affect his chances of winning the competition. “‘If the contestant had done such a shoot during the contest, we would look into the matter.” he said. “‘But this was something he had done in the past.'”
At the time Jake told the press the photos embarrassed him and that he’d learned a lesson. “I know now it is not easy to gain the fame I expected.” he said. “I am very cautious now. I won’t do such a shoot again, unless it is for ads by well-known brands, and it is coordinated by my manager.”
But then he also told the press he wasn’t gay. And never quite explained how a photo shoot for a jeans ad campaign ended up with him erect, not to mention obviously manscaped. And despite having said he’d never do such a shoot again, it’s obvious he did. Many times. Thank the gods. And there’s a video too. But with an overabundance of photos for today’s post despite how hard I attempted to winnow them down, you’ll have to wait for a link to that in tomorrow’s End of the Week post. By then you’ll probably be ready to Jake it again anyway.
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26 Friday Sep 2014
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26 Friday Sep 2014
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The good news is the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on September 24, 2104 it would add a new non-discrimination clause to its host city contract that would uphold Principle 6 of the Olympic Charter which states, “Any form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the Olympic Movement.” Gay rights activists used Principle 6, which was already part of the IOC’s charter, to protest discrimination against gays in Russia during the Sochi Winter Games.
Christopher Dubi, the IOC Sports Director, says the new clause will include “the prohibition of any form of discrimination, using the wording of Fundamental Principle 6 of the Olympic Charter.” Under the new clause future host cities must abide by international human rights standards in order to host the games, including the protection of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens and athletes. The IOC stated that the changes to the host city contract “are the result of the experience gained by the IOC in previous editions of the Olympic Games.” Uh, that would be you Mr. Putin.
The bad news is the IOC’s timing, which served as a not-so timely reminder that The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), which runs the Asian Games, falls under the banner of the IOC and is required to adhere to all of its rules, regulations, and principles, as are all Host City Organizing Committees, which in turn must adhere to the rules, regulations, and charter of the OCA. Not that when it comes to the gays that’s much of a problem for South Korea where the current Games are playing out. It could, however, become an issue for the 2018 Games in Indonesia. Jakarta will be the host city and while Indonesia’s capital city is not in one of the provinces under Sharia law – one of which recently proposed legislation for punishing gays by caning – in Jakarta lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are legally labeled as “cacat” or mentally handicapped and are therefore not protected by the various legal rights guaranteed by the constitution to all other citizens.
As for the Olympic Games, neither Brazil, the host nation for the 2016 Games, nor Japan, the host nation for the 2020 Olympics is a problem. Same-sex sexual activity was legalized in Japan in 1880 and in Brazil gays enjoy many of the same legal protections available to breeders, including the right to marry their same-sex partner. But there is discrimination and then there’s discrimination. And there are two separate actions taken by the Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee (IAGOC) against which the OCA, in light of the IOC’s announcement, is now calling foul. For the Incheon Games it may be a case of too little too late, but how the IOC and OCA go about enforcing their charter will set a precedence for future games, which may have an impact on Jakarta in 2018.
The first controversy revolves around the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), one of the many International Federations (IF) that govern individual sports. In this case there is a bit of a catch-22 going on. The Olympic charter recognizes and accepts that it is the IF which establishes the eligibility criteria of the relevant sport. However, it is incumbent upon the IF to do so in accordance with the Olympic charter.
The issue at the Incheon Games is that the ATP has a rule stating that players cannot be entered into more than one tournament in the same tournament week. The 17th Asian Games schedule for men’s tennis overlap the China Open in Beijing by one day. The China Open is jointly organized by the ATP and the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), and the WTA agreed to be flexible and allow players to report to China later or even withdraw to focus on the Asian Games. But the ATP rejected any such concessions. This forced six of the world’s leading male tennis players to withdraw from the Asian Games out of fear of facing a three-year ban and a $100,000 by the ATP.
The tennis controversy, and a similar problem with the Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee denying the eligibility of NBA player Andray Blatche to compete on the Philippines’ team, was addressed in the OCA’s statement, which amounted to a tongue lashing. The strongly worded statement reminded sports governing bodies to protect the rights of athletes. “The right of the athletes must be the highest priority,” said OCA Director General Husain Al-Musallam. “Every athlete has the right to represent their country’s flag without discrimination or without the threat of a financial penalty.”
The OCA also criticized the Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee for what it called “preventing athletes from representing their countries an international event”, although according to a spokesperson for the IAGOC the problem is with the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) and not the IAGOC. At issue is FIBA’s rule regarding the wearing of headgear. In this case that headgear is the hijab, a head covering worn by Muslim women in respect to their religion. While competitors have been allowed to wear hijabs in other sports, including badminton, shooting, and track and field at the Asian Games, in accordance with FIBA’s rules in Basketball they are not.
Asian Games Organizing Committee spokeswoman Anna Jihyun You told The Associated Press that ten minutes after the scheduled start of the match between Qatar and Mongolia on September 24, the game was declared forfeited and awarded to Mongolia because the Qatari players refused to take off their hijab. Ms. You said match officials did not receive any instructions to allow head coverings, and were only following the rules which restrict the use of headgear, hair accessories, and jewelry.
The Qatar women said they had expected to be able to wear a hijab when they arrived in Korea and only found out when they arrived at the Incheon stadium that it was still banned. “This is an insult to us, they did not respect our religion,” said Qatar forward Refaa Morjan Mohammed, adding that the team had worn the head scarf in Arab Championships without problems. The Qatar squad has five players who wear a hijab and six who do not.
But the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) strongly denied there was any religious connotation in the longstanding ban. It say the rule in question is over twenty years old and only recently has been questioned. FIBA is currently allowing exemptions to the rule, upon request, for a two-year trial period but only at the national level. FIBA’s governing body says it will evaluate the rule again next year, and determine whether to allow head covers at some level of international competition from next summer forward. Meanwhile, Qatar forfeited an additional match against Nepal, and has since announced that the country’s women’s basketball squad was withdrawing from the Games.
The OCA’s statement chastising IFs said the federations “have the duty to protect their athletes and allow them to exercise their right of freedom of choice with dignity.” The OCA also published a copy of two key points in the Olympic Charter and urged the sporting bodies to consider them. “The goal of Olympism is to place sport at the service of the harmonious development of humankind, with a view to promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity. “Any form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the Olympic Movement.
While the specific issues involved with current problems at the Incheon Games stem from international federation rules, and not the laws of the host country as gay rights issues did at the Sochi Olympics, the 17th Asian Games is an opportunity for the IOC to show how seriously it takes its decision to require all governing bodies associated with the sports world under its guidance to adhere to Olympic principles and its charter. FIBA’s claim that its rule that prevents Muslim women from adhering to the dictates of their religion is a matter of procedure and not religious discrimination should hold no more water than Russia’s claim that it does not discriminate against its gay citizens, but only wants to protect the country’s youth.
[‘The XVII Asiad’ are a series of posts about hot competitors and general articles about the 2014 17th Asian Games of interest to gay men. So, yeah, lots of hot male eye candy. Click the XVII Asiad’ graphic below for additional news, stories, and pictures.]
26 Friday Sep 2014
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Day #7 of the Asian Games ended with the top three medal totals remaining in the hands of China, South Korea, and Japan at 179, 104, and 107. Once again South Korea is considered to be in the #2 spot as it has 31 gold medals against Japan’s 30 even though Japan has won more medals over all.
Malaysia picked up another three medals for a total of 13, Singapore won one more for a grand haul of 11. Vietnam also won three more medals and now has 25, and both Indonesia and Thailand added an additional medal to their tally and have won 8 and 9 respectively. Burma and Laos still have only the two medals they started the week out with.
The big news for Thailand was the Thai men’s national football team defeating China 2-0 to earn a place in the quarter finals. Both goals were scored by Adisak Kraisorn and earned the team an additional 400,000 baht to add to the 500,000 baht the Thai government pays to reward its players for doing their jobs.
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