An unblinking look at the global fetish market, triggered by a detective novel. Why does the West commodify and systematize intimate strangeness, while Moscow still demands personal drama and history?
Read our deep dive into the “Logistics of Phantoms”—the multimillion-dollar, anonymous business of selling used underwear with surgical specificity. It’s the ultimate cultural contrast between rational Western commerce and the emotional, chaotic nature of the Russian market.
