Miss Asia and her western man

The male audience roared in awe or maybe in repugnance as Ms. Asia Agcaoili, a controversial drop-dead gorgeous bisexual Filipina sex guru replied to a talkshow host's question about her reasons for choosing a caucasian boyfriend. Besides leading the audience to believe that white men are more anatomically blessed with a satisfying phallus, she also wittingly admitted that western men gave her more self-confidence to express her innermost desires and that she has never experienced freedom and contentment in a relationship until she met this guy from the other side of the world. Now this is a big blow to all those drooling Filipino men who wish to jump into bed with her and have uninhibited, animalistic and liberating all-night sex. Well, with the highly carnal and unconventional image that Ms. Asia painted to herself, nobody could blame if most Filipino men see her as a sex object to find, fuck and forget. But on the other hand, she also boasts of her academic background, being a student of the country's premier institution of learning, able to fluently and intelligently express her thoughts and feelings and having a talent in writing sensible articles about love and of course, sex.

This deliberate choice of Ms. Asia to eventually end up with a western partner is not an isolated, sporadic nor endemic case particular to her or to the Philippines only. Here in Japan, the rise in marriages with western men has become a hot issue lately and has been serving as a rich and continuous watering hole for commercial couple-matching agencies that have sprouted like mushrooms in and around Tokyo. The main reason that Japanese women gave in searching for a western husband was for them to escape the traditional, difficult and multi-faceted roles that they assume once they get married to a Japanese man. A western husband is seen as a knight in shining armor, valiantly coming to rescue her from the clutches of a strict society where women always take the backseat and are expected to silently and willingly obey the dictates of a predominantly masculine social hierachy. In the Philippines, destiny was the first reason, followed by the desire to pursue a life outside the country where opportunities to alleviate the economic condition of their family back home are better. Miss Asia's reason for choosing a western partner is valid and could represent a significant number of Filipinas in the same situation as her.

There are obvioulsy a lot of tangible differences between asian and western men that women seem to discuss and consider more today as global interaction become limitless. These differences however, merit to be discussed in another time and under another title.

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