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hoho，Jimmy, the last one, is still very active in mainland china and go to hk regularly.

In China, keeping underware and having no happy ending just indicate the masseur is professionally trained. Very recently, the Google Translate's ban in mainland China has been cancelled, so you can use yours next time.

I suppose TruthBTold's 'politcal climate' is the protest in Russia against Putin and Medvedev. Besides the museums you suggest, Repin Acedemy of Fine Arts is also a good option.

In East Asian countries, the culture of education, family and malelism is really strong, which could possibly explain the phenomenon you told, on one hand. On the other hand, actually Japan has extrordinary adult industry (straight and gay), at least to the people in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. But mostly, the Japanese porn products are consumed domesticly or in East Asian markets. I could hardly see any porn products in mainland China and Hong Kong, but many conparatively rich people (male, mostly I think) would like to have sex (straight and gay) tour in Thailand and Vietnam.

As far as I know, in South Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia, Buddhist is a religion, though it effects the secular philosophy very much in these regions. There are so many schools in Buddhism and their doctrines and practices also vary very much. Zen(禪/ Chán) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism. Taosim, as a English word, is a little bit vague. In China, Taoist philosophy and Taoist regligion both exist. And the latter was derived from the former. Anyway, we don't need to discuss religion and philosophy here. Just wish OliverSaks good luck in Taxes.

thanks for the correction

I am Chinese from the mainland and had worked in HK for several years. Maybe I can supply some information abouy HK. About the air travel, I would recommondate 'Cathy'. This is a HK based company. Its service if of good quality and its lines cover all the major cities in the US, including LA, SF, NY.... and in the Southeast Asia of course. For the local interesting places, Victoria Peak/太平山 in HK island, where the view is good especially at night, and the Maclehose trail (there are ten stages, enjoy them), are suggested. Almost every local people could speak English very well. So just ask for further information. For the escorts, my experience may not be helpful to you but I just let you know. There are many money boys from mainland China. Usually they stay in HK for one or two weeks and go back to the mainland or go to Singapore. But mostly they can't speak English at all. Some of them told me that they can use some translation apps to communicate. You can use Gayhk.com to look for the guys you like. Many ads use photoshpped pics if not totally fake ones. And to most people from mainland including the boys and myself, Wechat is more popular than Whatsapp. However, I have no idea about local spa and the international travelling escorts in HK. About Macau, it is full of casinos. If you don't like them, I think you just need to stay there for one day at most, because it is very small.