Chinese girls rent boyfriends to take home for New Year

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Chinese girls rent boyfriends to take home for New Year: 'appropriate kisses, 50 yuan'


A new generation of Chinese women might be able to exploit the gender gap

The Chinese New Year is fast approaching, and millions of girls will be schlepping home from their jobs in the city to their families in the countryside.

According to the Globe and Mail, "Because so many Chinese live and work away from their native towns and villages, and travel home only once a year, the treasured family time is weighted with pressure to show what you've accomplished over the last 12 months." It can be a particularly miserable
experience for girls who don't bring home a boyfriend, leading to endless questions about why they're not dating and where their life's going. In this sexist society, ladies over 27 who aren't hitched are labelled "leftover women."


Thankfully, the internet has a solution for all those loveless leftovers. If you don't have a man to bring home to the folks, just rent one for the week.

Over 300 boyfriend-rental services are currently listed on the Chinese shopping site Taobao. One ad reads, "Not getting any younger and still dreading facing the nagging parents? Need a boyfriend to face the family?" If the answer is "yes" then a girl can pick from a wide range of boys who charge a flat rate plus commission on a whole host of thrilling activities. To quote one charming example:

Boyfriend for rent, 300 yuan a day [$48], holding hands and hugs free, appropriate kisses 50 yuan, talking to old people 30 yuan an hour, others we'll talk about it when we meet "¦ Accommodation and transport costs paid by the woman.

If only all men could charge their girlfriends cash for talking to the in-laws, but it's fascinating to note that it costs slightly more to exchange an "appropriate kiss" than it does to "talk to old people" (if one of those old people demands a kiss, presumably the fee goes through the roof). As the penny-counting implies, there's absolutely no romance in all of this. According to a translation provided by the New York Times, this handsome fellow charges 800 renminbi per day ($128) plus "shopping (15 renminbi per hour or 150 a day, minimum two hours); chatting (10 renminbi an hour or 100 a day); watching a movie (10 renminbi an hour, double for horror films); attending parties (20 renminbi an hour, will not go to dangerous places)." The cheeky devil even charges his host for drinking alcohol – 50 renmimbi for drinking a glass of red wine and 20 renminbi for drinking beer. This might just be the best job in the world.

It seems that China is stuck somewhere between tradition and modernity. On the one hand, this is still a country where women want to please their families and where success is measured in starting a family. On the other hand, a new cosmopolitan generation of girls is finding a way around the pressures of conformity by hiring part time boyfriends. The old communist dream of egality is thus exposed as farce in a society where individuals will not only sell their identity to others for cash but will also be so brazenly profiteering about it. Never could Mao have imagined that boys would charge money to accompany someone to the cinema, let alone expect a double fee if it turns out to be a horror movie (it probably triples if it's anything starring Adam Sandler).

But the most interesting question is what the boyfriend racket says about China's gender gap. China's one-child policy has created an incentive for families to choose raising boys over girls, because boys are thought to have higher earning power. Forthcoming statistics suggest that the male to female ration is now 122 men to every 100 women. Although that testifies to the supposed superior social status of men, men don't necessarily feel the economic benefit as they compete over jobs and women. By 2020 sociologist predict that there will be an "extra" 35 million Chinese men for whom there is no equivalent female partner. Across the country, crime rates and demonstrations are already on the increase; the creation of a generation of underemployed men who aren't even able to create a family will only increase social tensions. But it may also give women greater leverage within the marriage market, as the burgeoning boyfriend trade suggests. Having a bigger choice from a growing supply of men may empower women to stay single longer or perhaps to be more picky about potential suitors. And if the pressures of women working longer and longer hours means they don't get a chance to meet men "¦ they can just hire one.

And so the marketisation of Chinese society continues apace. As the country expands and urbanises, so its inequalities grow. But it's fascinating to watch how a new society improvises its way around its problems. You can see it in the fields of technology and industry, or even in environmental protest. But what's most striking is the way that people are bringing free market principles to bear on human relationships – to the extent that you can silence your relatives by hiring a partner. For those who are interested, I'd like officially to put myself on the market. Be warned though, I will be charging for alcohol drunk, cigarettes smoked and cheeseburgers eaten – so this could get expensive.

Chinese girls rent boyfriends to take home for New Year: 'appropriate kisses, 50 yuan' – Telegraph Blogs



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This again proves my point that the Chinese would do anything for MONEY!

Their God is MONEY.

Very mechanical about life without any emotions. Robotic!

Imagine this shyster - his handsome fellow charges 800 renminbi per day ($128) plus "shopping (15 renminbi per hour or 150 a day, minimum two hours); chatting (10 renminbi an hour or 100 a day); watching a movie (10 renminbi an hour, double for horror films); attending parties (20 renminbi an hour, will not go to dangerous places)." The cheeky devil even charges his host for drinking alcohol – 50 renmimbi for drinking a glass of red wine and 20 renminbi for drinking beer. This might just be the best job in the world.!

Let the world boy youth go to China. It will beat the recession! :rofl:
 

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This again proves my point that the Chinese would do anything for MONEY!

Their God is MONEY.

Very mechanical about life without any emotions. Robotic!

Let the world boy youth go to China. It will beat the recession! :rofl:
wait so there is no prostitution in india, nor scam for money, dating service for $$$ etc:rolleyes:
 

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wait so there is no prostitution in india, nor scam for money, dating service for $$$ etc:rolleyes:
I don't think any country is free from prostitution.

But I wonder if things could be so brazen, desparate and shameless as what is being reported in the UK media about China.

I cannot believe that a price for the variety of 'services' is ever quoted as is being reported about China.

It makes it so impersonal and so much like a legitimate business proposition!

That is what makes me wonder!

I don't think that prostitutes male or female, openly give out their rates in public forums!

What can be conceded is that China is a pacesetter in this type of open soliciting with rates!
 
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I don't think any country is free from prostitution.

But I wonder if things could be so brazen, desparate and shameless as what is being reported in the UK media about China.

I cannot believe that a price for the variety of 'services' is ever quoted as is being reported about China.

It makes it so impersonal and so much like a legitimate business proposition!

That is what makes me wonder!

I don't think that prostitutes male or female, openly give out their rates in public forums!

What can be conceded is that China is a pacesetter in this type of open soliciting with rates!
well this is no different than escort service. at least is not money for sex. also many dating service charge $$$ too. these kind things happen all over the place. in US and other place rich people hire pretty woman as their date, not necessary sex, just to prove they can have a hot date
 

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well this is no different than escort service. at least is not money for sex. also many dating service charge $$$ too. these kind things happen all over the place. in US and other place rich people hire pretty woman as their date, not necessary sex, just to prove they can have a hot date
Do the escort services in the US give the rates on open media for the different type of services that they are ready to provide?

Maybe I missed that!
 

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DRAGGED HOME

CHINA DIARY -Neha Sahay

In a disturbing new trend, some youngsters did not go home for the new year, which is a time for family reunions. The reasons for this varied. A legal assistant who has managed to save enough money to buy his own apartment baulked at the prospect of handing out customary 'red envelopes' filled with cash during new year to his extended family. Having bought a house in the city, he knew he would be expected to gift people 1,000 yuan per envelope, and then face a queue of relatives wanting to borrow money.

Ruifang, who is 27 years old, has lost count of the number of times her brother has borrowed money and never returned it. The eldest of three children, she came to the city to earn her living as soon as she finished high school, because her father died. It was she who paid the family's hospital bills; it was with her earnings that her mother expanded her house, only to make her brother a joint owner of the place.

Yet, Ruifang would go home dutifully every new year. Her mother and aunt would set her up with eligible bachelors in her hometown; she found them provincial and immature. Last year, she decided to marry a persistent suitor, a foreigner 15 years older than her. When she called her mother to break the news to her, the latter's only response was: "Make him promise he will provide for us.'' The ill-suited match broke up, but Ruifang has had enough of her family. She chose to travel with a friend during the new year holiday rather than go home.

The main reason for youngsters not going home is a desire to stay away from family. Ironically, a new law making it mandatory for employers to provide 'going home' leave is to be passed this July.

Desperate measures

It isn't that these young people don't love their parents; they just find they can no longer spend a week with them. As one blogger wrote: "Please allow us the right of staying aside quietly, which is another way of expressing our love." A Shanghai waitress who did go home confessed that she spent most of her time on her mobile phone. A kung-fu instructor at a university just wanted to spend his holiday eating instant noodles, playing computer games and watching the CCTV new year extravaganza online.

But most others stayed away fearing the inquisition they would be subjected to: Have you found a partner? How much is his/her salary? When are you getting married? Have you bought a house? Some had fibbed about their jobs; they were afraid the truth would come out under such grilling. So widespread was this fear that some youngsters who discussed this on the internet decided that an attacking approach would be the best defence. Before their relatives could begin the interrogation, the youth would start asking them: Haven't you bought the latest car yet? What are your granddaughter's grades? Some even suggested that people ask their aunts and uncles: Did your transition to menopause go smoothly? How much is your pension?

In China, all problems lead to a commercial solution. Scattered instances of hiring men and women to pose as partners and take home for the new year have led to the setting up of full-fledged hire-a-partner agencies, with fixed prices for different services — from 50 yuan for a kiss to 300 yuan for sleeping in the same room. At least one such contract soured when the client got the hired 'girlfriend' pregnant. He was forced by the court to pay 3,000 yuan for the abortion.

The multinational food giant, PepsiCo, saw in this year's trend of not going home a fantastic marketing moment. It made a ten-minute ad showing a widower welcoming a stranger into his home to make up for the absence of his three children. The youngster manages to get the three to come back home, using PepsiCo products to revive their childhood memories. The heart-tugging video has become a rage.

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If a problem can be solved by money, then it is not a problem.
 

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