Pimp My Student - Chinese College Edition

[Acturus]

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct...corts-20101021

It's three pages long, so click the link. But here are some snippets:

Reporting from Beijing — The girls from the drama academy cost the most. Actresses are pretty, after all, and pretty is the point. Steady access to their sexual favors could cost a man more than $25,000 a year, not to mention the perks and gifts they would expect.

The gentleman on a budget had better browse through students at the tourism institute, or perhaps the business school. Women there can be had for as low as $5,000 a year.

Those are the prices advertised by the young man who calls himself "Student Ding," a senior at Shanghai University who, in the grand tradition of Chinese entrepreneurship, is earning his money by working as a pimp.

In China, everybody seems to be selling something these days. Advertising crowds the skyline and the roadsides. A closed country has opened up in a span of decades, and is experiencing an economic boom that has introduced new desires and an "anything goes" mentality.

"More and more students are making this choice, taking a shortcut to a better life" said Lan Lan, a former prostitute who now advocates for the rights of sex workers in China, where prostitution is technically illegal but often tolerated. "They find a rich lover, post services on the Internet or just walk into a high-end club and sell themselves. The end result is the same."

Using sex as a commodity, it turns out, goes a long way. And in a fast-changing China, rationalizations are easy to cobble together.

"Years ago, when people heard somebody was a prostitute, they would criticize her very harshly, so girls who might want to copy her would change their minds," she said. "These days, people's attitudes have totally changed. They laugh at poor people, but they don't laugh at prostitutes."

Yi Haiyan, a former prostitute who now pens a blog documenting the plight of sex workers, agrees.

"The importance of virginity and sexual purity is not as strong as before. People are realizing that sex won't have a huge impact on our future lives compared with other things that happen to you," she said. "Life is more than just being pure. It's not that important."

Student Ding put it more succinctly.

"Many girls are gold diggers," he said, but don't know how to find a "sugar daddy."

As for the men, he said, they find it degrading and time-consuming to troll for hookers in karaoke bars and hotels. They want young, fresh women who are less apt to carry diseases. But their daily activities don't take them into college campuses to meet women.

[Boyiee]

China sells babies

[Zetanio]

Do want.

[Silenka]

College = new generation brothel, got it.

[Priran]

They want young, fresh women who are less apt to carry diseases.

Yeah alright let's go with that

[Metah]

Yeah I thought that was funny too Priran.

[SephYuyX]

College? Too old.