Coincidence, or total media take-over? Three stories ran today (two in the same paper) about the growing expansion of mass media in the good old U.S. of A.

• The guys in Bangalore are hitting the floor. Now, they too will have Maxim to grace the toilet tanks of India. Nope, the spread eagle of American sex doesn't end there.

• To counter balance the female exploitation that is the result of most American media influence, Russia now has their very own version of Sex and the City. And get this: it's called Balzac Age, or All Men Are Bast. As in 'all men are bastards.' Did you hear that Maureen Dowd?

• It's not just the sex, though, it's the kids, too. Nickelodeon goes to China — of course with the same amount of restrictions put on Desperate Housewives. No farts, no burping, no boobs…the basics.

Well, it's nice to see that American television is so easily adopted across the world. Maybe British Vogue will launce a magazine reality TV show, and we can find out how scary Anna Wintour is, even from across the ocean.

Maxim crosses cultures [Amrit Dhillon, Guardiean]
Like 'Sex and the City', Only the City is Moscow [Sophia Kishkovsky, NYT]
Nick's Cultural Revolution [David Barboza, NYT]