Migrant Worker

After a discussion about the new blog, a close friend sent me a link to the following article in China Daily:

A survey by the Ministry of Health at the end of 2004 said 88 per cent of the country’s male migrants suffered from sexual depression. And a survey carried out by Beijing Star Daily last year covering 40 adult male migrants revealed 16 of the married men hadn’t had sex in six months. Nine single migrants had not had sex since arriving in the city several years ago. The survey correspondents said they thought about visiting prostitutes, but their earnings could not sustain their desire for a call girl. Most of them instead watched porn films and some resorted to touching women in public.

Read the rest of that article, focusing on rape committed by desperate migrants, here.

Impoverished domestic Chinese migrant workers have it pretty bad in a lot of ways, and sexual release is probably the least of their concerns when compared with finding adequate food and housing. Expats, however, while generally not worrying about where their next meal will come from, are often plagued by sexual frustration. Whether pining after a long-distance significant other or failing to break through cultural and language barriers, working abroad can get.. ahem… lonely.

Most of my single friends assure me that Kunming has one of the worst dating scenes of any major city in China. Even the guys with “yellow fever” are generally hard-pressed to find an attractive local girl. When long-term single status or that long-distance relationship becomes too much, some of my friends and I have discovered an ingenious solution: CHEAP PEDICURES.