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The Birth, and Death, of the Asian BabeThe sordid history of the sexually exotic East.

By Johann HariPosted Monday, June 29, 2009, at 9:31 AM ET

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Johann Hari is a Slate contributing writer and a columnist for the Independent in London. He was recently named newspaper journalist of the year by Amnesty International.
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The first page of this article seems almost open minded and receptive to the book, and the second page is a brutal condemnation.

Quite frankly, the brutal condemnation seems justified. He should have opened with it. This sounds like really sick stuff.

And I thought his insight of cultural flip- how the east became sexually conservative- was refreshing. I've studied the topic of the sexualization of Asian women for awhile now, and I've never heard anyone bring it up!

-- watchreader
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