Hong Kong space is so limited that condo units are so squeezed, so residents use every space possible. Given this situation, it is not surprising that privacy is compromised, prompting Yau Wa-Ching, a new legislator, to complain that the territory lacks space for young people to have sex.
AT 25, Yau, from the political party Youngspiration, was elected in September to Hong Kong’s Legislative Council, making her the second-youngest lawmaker in the territory. To underscore the city’s bleak state of housing, which she scored the government for failing to address the issue, Yao pointed out, “If we want to look for a room to bang in, we fail,” quoted Time.
She criticized the government for not even caring. In a separate Facebook post, Yau said that because residents are under debt, the youth of Hong Kong are grappling with limited options “when it comes to] spaces to bang in.”
She made the remarks on Monday at a forum at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Yao explained that college graduates have students loans to pay after leaving the university that they could not afford to pay rent for their own accommodation separate from the family, depriving them of private place to be intimate with their partners, Coconut Hongkong reported.
Her views are likely to jar Hong Kong residents - known for being conservative when it comes to topics like sex – when she takes office on the second week of October. Proof of this is a 2008 survey that South China Morning Post cited which state over 50 percent of youth surveyed were too embarrassed to purchase condoms.