Showing posts with label dating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dating. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

I hired a lesbian girlfriend in Japan


Pretty Woman (Disney, Inc.)
(seerasan) I hired a rental Japanese girlfriend (lesbian 🌈 "escort") in Tokyo (Edo) 💘 the capital of Buddhist Japan.

[I called a call girl. I hope people won't call me a "Dick Gere," the Dalai Lama's best American pal next to Bob Thurman (Were they in the Epstein Files, too?), like Dick was in Disney's Pretty Woman, but at least I'm not pulling a Julia Roberts as a happy hooker WH*R*, right?]

Real human "companions" for rent!

You're a Pretty Girl. - If you say so, Boss.
[Sex work, I mean prostitution, I mean paid dating is hot when ladies do it, but men are disgusting when they pay for "companionship" and exploit needy Japanese girls just trying to make some easy money! I was looking for a paid relationship after reading anime about it. What's wrong with that? I felt frustrated. Money is money!]
Why do "sign girls" work the street?

Americans watch Japanese porn?

Thursday, August 6, 2026

K-pop is not about the music: selling out

 
We're backed by very evil and rich corporations
Like Korean Buddhism,* K-pop (Korean 케이팝, RR Keipap, "Korean popular music") is a best-selling creation originating in South Korea [2]. The music genre that the term is used to refer to colloquially emerged in the 1990s as a form of youth subculture, with Korean musicians influenced by Western dance music, hip-hop, R&B, and rock [3, 4, 5].
(BTS Inc.) What do fans want, divas or gay dance rapper thug life?

(No Na) "Honk!" It's the future of all music, like Indonesia's no na (lol)
One day we'll be bigger than Blackpink
Today, K-pop commonly refers to the musical output of teen "idol" acts, chiefly all-girl groups and all-boy bands, who emphasize visual appeal and performance [6].

As a pop genre, K-pop is characterized by its melodic quality and cultural hybridity [7, 8, 9]. K-pop can trace its origins to "rap dance," a fusion of hip-hop, techno, and rock popularized by the group Seo Taiji and Boys, whose experimentation helped to modernize South Korea's contemporary music scene in the early 1990s [10, 11, 12].



We're not manufactured product! We're natural
Their popularity with teenagers led the music industry to focus on this demographic. Lee Soo-man of SM Entertainment, who developed the Korean idol system in the late 1990s, created H.O.T. and S.E.S., the "first generation" of K-pop [13].

By the early 2000s, TVXQ and BoA had achieved success in Japan and gained traction for the genre overseas [14, 15]....

ROSE and PSY perform "APT." (live from Summerswag 2025)

By 2019, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) listed South Korea as the 6th largest music market in the world [116], with boy band BTS alone accounting for $4.65 billion, or 0.3%, of South Korea's GDP [117].


Blackpink, biggest in the world?
In 2024, IFPI declared K-pop the leading global genre in unit sales, across both physical and digital formats. Seventeen of the top 20 albums on the IFPI Global Album Sales Chart that year belonged to this genre [118, 119] thanks to BTSBlackpink, solo Rosé, Katseye, and a few others. More

*Korean Buddhism for a changing Korea
Standing guard statue (one of the Four Heavenly Sky Kings) in a Korean temple, Korea
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Korean Buddhism began in the 4th century CE during the Three Kingdoms Period. Centuries after Buddhism originated in [Gandhara, now modern Afghanistan] and Magadha [a Buddhist territory later brought into the empire under the umbrella term "India" under Buddhist Emperor Ashoka], the Mahayana tradition arrived in China through the Silk Road in the 1st century CE, then entered the Korean peninsula in the 4th century, from where it was transmitted to Japan.

In Korea, it was adopted as the state religion of three constituent polities of the Three Kingdoms Period, first by the Goguryeo (aka Goryeo) in 372 CE, by the Silla (Gaya) in 528 CE, and by the Baekje in 552 CE [1].

Korean Buddhist monks Haeinsa
Korean Buddhism is distinguished from other forms of Buddhism by its attempt to resolve what its early practitioners saw as inconsistencies within the Mahayana Buddhist traditions that they received from foreign countries.

To address this, Korean Buddhists developed a new holistic approach to Buddhism that became a distinct form, an approach characteristic of virtually all major Korean thinkers.

Sam Taeguk symbol, Korean Buddhism
The resulting variation is called Tongbulgyo ("interpenetrated Buddhism"), a form that sought to harmonize previously arising disputes among scholars (a principle called hwajaeng 和諍) [2].

As it now stands, Korean Buddhism consists mostly of the Seon [Zen] Lineage, primarily represented by the Jogye and Taego Orders. The Korean Seon has a strong relationship with other Mahayana traditions that bear the imprint of Chan teachings as well as the closely related Zen.

Other sects -- such as the modern revival of the Cheontae lineage, the Jingak Order (a modern esoteric sect or Vajrayana), and the newly formed Won -- have also attracted sizable followings [3].

Korean Buddhism has contributed much to East Asian Buddhism, especially to early Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Tibetan schools of Buddhist thought. More
American dance hegemony hits South Korea, Japan...and now Indonesia

Monday, July 13, 2026

How to chat up your AI chatbots (LWT)

Better living through brain death chemicals and robot assists. Chat up means "have a chat with."

(LastWeekTonight) AI Chatbots: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

How to handle new AI scam calls
(Kitboga) Don't hang up on AI scammers (scam-bots). Do this instead.
Once you need it, you'll need more
(Hasan Minhaj) The Gen Z backlash to all things Big Tech
Let ChatGPT do all your thinking; you just rest

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Adult content: girls clubbing 'n partying


How can I party and still get my beauty sleep?
Laurie Bag'
and Susie Lee began a movement. Earlybirds Club, a party for women who want to dance and get to bed on time, is headed to Philly.

Many describe that party -- which ends at an appropriate 10:00 pm -- as a form of therapy and a rare chance to exhale and reconnect. 

Can I bring my dad, Elon Musk? (Vivian Wilson)
Going out to a club and dancing until 3:00 am is an early 20’ right of passage. For many women and queer folks, the ritual usually involves putting on a slightly too tight outfit, wearing heels that just may kill feet, drinking cheap alcohol without any regard for the next day’s hangover, and sleeping in well past noon.

But then the years pile on, and so do responsibilities -- as careers, partners, and kids get in the way. The time for such shenanigans tends to fall by the wayside. Still, shouldn’t those carefree, joy-filled nights of dancing stay on the table, no matter what our age?

Smiles and bubble guns can be expected at Earlybirds parties (Meagan Shuptar/billypenn.com)
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Start bi, leave gay? Happy Pride Nights
That’s where Earlybirds Club is swooping in to fill the void. The concept, dreamed up 18 months ago in Chicago by friends Laura Baginski and Susie Lee, is a series of dance parties for GenX and Millennial women, lesbian, trans, and nonbinary people (LGBTQIA+), where drinking is optional, one can wear whatever one wants (orthopedic sneakers and fanny packs welcome), and leaving well before midnight is encouraged.

It's not lesbianism...Why does it need a label?
Already, the club has spread into multiple cities with sold-out tickets in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Boston and Providence, Rhode Island.

And now, for the first time the party is headed to Philly. Source: Earlybirds Club, a dance party for ‘middle aged-ish’ women, is headed to Philadelphia

The story of Early Birds Club Co-Founders Laura Baginski and Susie Lee

Saturday, January 24, 2026

A Man's World? Polyandry in Shangri-La


One queen with many kings?
Tibet Travel (Tibet Vista) [Guide Jamyang was traveling on the Lost Horizon and] found the lost Shangri-La (Tibetan Shambhala, Western Paradise Lost), and their secret to happiness seems to be polyandry (multiple husbands for each woman).

POLYANDRY (Ancient Greek πολύ, polú, "many" + ἀνήρ, anḗr, "man") is a form of polygamy in which a female takes two or more husbands at the same time.

Polyandry is contrasted with polygyny, involving one male and two or more females. If a marriage involves a plural number of "husbands and wives" participants of each gender, then it can be called polygamy [1], group or conjoint marriage [2].
  • Anything he can do, I...
    Let's not forget the beautiful practice of polyamory for those who can overcome the venoms of envy and jealousy.
In its broadest use, polyandry refers to sexual relations with multiple males within or without marriage.

Of the 1,231 societies listed in the 1980 Ethnographic Atlas,
  • 186 were found to be monogamous,
  • 453 had occasional polygyny,
  • 588 had more frequent polygyny, and
  • 4 had polyandry [3].
Polyandry is more frequent (less rare) than this figure suggests because it considered only those examples found in the Himalayan Buddhist mountain region (8 societies).

Feminine female power!
More recent studies have found at least 4 other societies practicing polyandry [4]. Fraternal polyandry is practiced among Tibetans in Nepal and parts of China, in which two or more brothers are married to the same female (wife), with that wife having equal sexual access to them [5, 6].

It is associated with partible paternity, the cultural belief that a child can have more than one [legal] father [4].

Several ethnic groups practicing polyandry in India identify their customs with their descent from the female Draupadi, a central character of the Mahabharata (revered in Hinduism) who was married to five brothers, although local practices may not be fraternal themselves.

One husband, one wife? - How bad is a good marriage? Be honest, completely honest

Adam's Eve was his "rescuer."
WHY? Polyandry is believed to be more likely in societies with scarce environmental resources. It is believed to limit human population growth and enhance child survival [6, 7]. It is a rare form of marriage that exists among elite and peasant families [8].

For example, polyandry in the predominantly Buddhist Himalayan mountains is related to the scarcity of land. The marriage of all brothers in a family to the same wife allows family land to remain in the same family's hads undivided.

If every brother married separately and had children, family land would be split into unsustainably small plots.

In contrast, very poor persons who do not own land are less likely to practice polyandry in Buddhist India's Ladakh and Zanskar [6].

In Europe, the splitting up of land was prevented through the social practice of impartible inheritance. With most siblings disinherited, many of them became celibate monks and priests [9]. Buddhism seems to have had a better solution, though the vast majority of male and female Tibetan Buddhists at one time or other became Vajrayana monastics at least for some part of their lives. More