If young Hong Kong residents have no place to have sex because of the expensive and tight spaces in the region, a growing number of Chinese women have the whole world to enjoy sex with a stranger, while traveling for free.
Young women in China who read the account of others like them who love to travel, stay in expensive hotels, eat in fancy restaurants and shop, but could not afford it on their salary, try the travel-for-sex scheme and often like the results. They try it once, like the perks and do not mind having sex with a temporary moneyed boyfriend if it could bring them to places in and out of China without spending a yuan.
The scheme was discussed on Sept. 20 in a radio program on The Himalayan, an audio sharing platform in China with about 660,000 listeners. Upon listening to the discussions, Chinese netizens debated on the topic with people expressing approval and disapproval of the emerging lifestyle, Global Times reported.
It begins often with a woman posting online her interest in finding a temporary boyfriend willing to spend for her airfare and other needs in exchange for sleeping with him during the time they are together. She specifies the things she looks for in a man in terms of physical appearance, and if they agree, a deal is reached.
Women who are into the scheme have been to different placed such as Lhasa in Tibet, Sichuan and Fujian.
Experts say the women in that kind of scheme do not break the country’s law but are also not protected. A 27-year-old saleslady in Beijing met her temporary boyfriend in Xiamen and had sex with him on the first night. On the second day, he refused to pay for their lunch and then disappeared. The woman decided against reporting the incident to the police, although she is also grateful because he did not harm her, or take nude photos to use against her later as revenge porn.
The scheme is use by both men and women, although majority are women which is an indicator of how development of gender equality in China has regressed, said Shenzhen-based anthropologist Wang Qianni.