A hot delivery man ignores all the sexy ladies to make out with a nerdy assistant. Skyfilm Studio created this 2001 advertisement to promote the Hungarian lottery and show that winning the lottery is more likely to happen than this situation. H/T CulturePub
Catwalking naked in glamorous high heels alongside a swanky swimming pool, Eva Herzigova channels Marilyn Monroe, perhaps establishing herself as the new Blonde Bombshell.
A 36-year-old IT specialist in Hong Kong was arrested at the Kowloon Tong Station after police observed him taking upskirt shots of women using a miniature camera embedded inside his Croc shoes. He even installed a battery so he could film for longer. H/T Apple Daily English
Australia’s Dateline goes undercover to investigate Madagascar’s child sex trade, with some parents even prostituting their own children.
Iceland’s Interior Minister is leading an investigation into the possibility of banning online pornography from the country. If such a measure is enacted, Iceland would become the first Western democracy to apply the thumbscrews to Internet porn.
Cosmetics companies are using fresh-faced South Korean pop stars to fuel sales of their products to Asian men, who increasingly view appearance as a vital ingredient for success.
Odessa, on the frontier of the former Soviet Union, has become the seedy new tourist magnet for American men of all ages. The attraction: The city in the Ukraine has a seemingly endless supply of beautiful young, single women. Julia’s situation is typical of many. Following an abusive marriage, she signed up with one of the many local agencies that offer the chance to be paired up with hopefuls from abroad. ”I’m already too old for the men here… Getting a man here is very competitive, because there are so few of them,” says Julia, living in a city where women outnumber men almost five to four.
But despite accusations of being little more than a legalized pimping service, clients such as Arthur, a 65 year-old veteran of six romance tours, have no qualms with the service they offer. “It’s like purchasing a very nice used Cadillac,” he explains. “I need to drive it before I make a decision about taking it home and putting it in my garage.” H/T Journeyman Pictures
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.
