With Spielberg's Olympic dropout dominating China Net news recently, many of you may have missed Edison Chen's sex photo scandal (Hong Kong's answer to Paris Hilton) taking the media by storm. And it was just in time for Valentine's Day, too. Although it may have been more appropriate on April Fools.

Imagethief has a way super-awesome post about this whole mess which you may even find more titillating (I love that word!) than the photos themselves. This stuff is gold:

Edison Chen had a customized pink MacBook that broke. He took it in for repairs. I don't know if you've ever had a computer repaired before, but certainly on the mainland many such repairs are handled by spotty young men who have never had sex and have no immediate prospects of having sex. A customized pink laptop might as well be stenciled, "raid me for porn". If you didn't know otherwise you'd probably think it belonged to a chick (or an incredibly flamboyant gay man, but odds favor a chick). And that's pure temptation, because the kind of girl who would have a customized pink MacBook would probably also have vanity lingerie shots somewhere on the hard drive. You might as well hand a mirror with six lines of primo Andean nostril icing and a rolledup twenty to a Hollywood agent and say, "dude, I'm going out to have my ass waxed. For the love of god, whatever you do, don't snort this excellent coke!"

Not such a wise move. If you're gonna climb into bed with 8 female popstars, you might want to see about getting yourself a Polariod camera before they're all gone.

Edison may also want to consider changing his name to Cletus or Billy-Bob.

One of my Chinese friends seems to think that Edison Chen's career is finished. Although I'm inclined to think it's only just begun, if American sex scandals are any indication.

Sure, Edison has called for the pics to be destroyed, and that was smart. But I'm sure even he realizes at this point that such efforts to contain the spread of those photos is futile.

Unfortunately, once they make it to Flickr and Photobucket, that genie is out of the bottle for good. That's just the nature of digital media.

And as sad as it is--there ain't no going back for Edison.

 

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