waiver and confidentiality agreement to protect her sexual secrets. In another episode, Woo is hired by Richard Fish as an attorney in his firm, in exchange for sexual favors. Woo's sexual foreplay with Richard Fish included sucking his fingers, dropping hot wax on him, and performing a "hair-tickling massage" on his bare chest. In regards to this encounter, Jeff Yang stated: "What she offered was not too far from an Oriental massage - hair splayed across his chest, his stricken face, the whole interracial thing. It's clearly something that plays off so many deep-seated fantasies about Asian American women." Woo's attitude to sex is cold and uninterested. While depicted as a sexual predator, she nonetheless "doesn't like sex; it's messy" "and overrated". She is able to keep her boyfriend interested without having to have intercourse with him because she does not like sweat. To Woo, according to Smith, sex is just another arena for her to exert control. To her, "Sex is a weapon", and "a woman hasn't got true control of a man until her hand is on the dumb stick". Woo enjoys using sex as a weapon, opining, "There's nothing I enjoy more than seeing a happy couple and coming between them." As with the "vicious" personality, most of this hyper-sexuality is gone by Season 3 (Woo's second season on the show). Darrell Hamamoto, Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis, describes Ling as "a neo-Orientalist masturbatory fantasy figure concocted by a white man whose job it is to satisfy the blocked needs of other white men who seek temporary escape from their banal and deadening lives by indulging themselves in a bit of visual cunnilingus while relaxing on the sofa." Her liaisons are mostly with white men, but are not limited to them. One episode features a dream sequence in which Ally McBeal and Ling Woo go on a date and kiss on screen. The kiss was shot in profile, locked lips clearly visible, rather than using the typical angle for same-sex kisses, in which the partner's head blocks the view of the actual contact. The scene was considered so racy that the episode was banned from being shown in Singapore. The episode won its time slot among young adult viewers during its showing in the November 1999 sweeps, even beating Monday Night Football. Woo made the "damn hot kiss" even hotter because