you can't tell from the samsung galaxy pic but this dude is asian, code 'the dragon.' i met him in tokyo while i was giving a grad lecture on hegel at payho university and he wanted to meet to talk jockstraps and cock cups in translated mandrin (which i can do, with some difficulty). charmingly, he opened with the line — 我爱的好同志护裆 — which is just a lovely queer way to start a bilingual — mandarin to english — convo about straps in a foreign metropolis. we traded a couple of straps — I traded out 'the parasol,' which had been a companion of mine for many years, ever since my second catholic pilgrimage to paris, and one of michael williams's favorites in my collection of jockstraps. in any event, 'the dragon,' this strap, the pic, here, which i took from the samsung galaxy loaner cell that the hotel front desk loaned me after my native iphone was stolen by asian holligans, this pic is of the strap that this chinese grad student, felix-chee, a jocksrap lover, gave to me in exchange for 'the parasol.' it stank of msg and hard factory sweat, but it was worth the trade and translation. a happy memory of a bilingual jockstrap potlatch —under the stars in tokyo city. long live the global jockstrap! 2013.