Current Events > Single women in China flock to find virtual boyfriends

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https://news.yahoo.com/virtual-boyfriends-match-chinas-single-women-034036508.html

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What the fuck at women needing to pay for "virtual boyfriends." Isn't there significantly more men than women there?

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I'd give them company. Chinese chicks are the hottest asian chicks >_>
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Chinese teen Robin spends hours online chatting to her man, who always has a sympathetic ear for her problems -- as long as she's willing to pay him.

The 19-year-old pre-medical student has spent more than 1,000 yuan ($150) speaking to "virtual boyfriends".

These aren't seedy sex-chat lines but men who charge for friendly and flirty online communication, from wake-up calls to lengthy text exchanges and video conversations.

"If someone is willing to keep me company and chat, I'm pretty willing to spend money," said Robin, who didn't want to give her real name.

The option for intimacy on-demand has gained popularity among China's middle-income young women, who are often focused on careers with no immediate plans to marry and start a family.
Shops selling virtual friends and partners can be found on Chinese messaging app WeChat or on an e-commerce site like Taobao.

Several virtual boyfriends told AFP that most of their customers are single women in their twenties with disposable income.

By day, 22-year-old Zhuansun Xu is a foreign exchange trader in Beijing. By night, he chats with female clients who pay him to be their "boyfriend", something he has done for the past year.

Girls come to Zhuansun with different needs - some want friendly advice, while others have more romantic requests.
"While we're interacting, I tell myself: I really am her boyfriend, so how can I treat her well?" he told AFP.
"But after we're done, I'll stop thinking this way."

- 'Feelings of love' -
Prices start from a few yuan for half an hour of texting, to a few thousand yuan to keep a companion on retainer for phone calls throughout a month.

"People have figured out how to commodify affection," said Chris K.K. Tan, an associate professor at Nanjing University who has researched the phenomenon.

"This is a new mode of womanhood that is unprecedented in China," Tan said.
Pursuing romance had not been available to many Chinese women in the past.
Sandy To, a sociologist at the University of Hong Kong, said marriage had traditionally been a "must" in patriarchal Chinese society.

But Tan says that the one-child policy -- which came into force in 1979 and limited the size of most families -- has created "a generation of self-confident and resourceful women."

A preference for boys meant a generation of sex-selective abortions and abandoned baby girls, and in 2018, China still had the world's most skewed gender ratio at 114 boys born for every 100 girls.

For many women, the policy changed their family dynamics. Parents of the female children "raised them as sons", says Roseann Lake, author of a book on China's unmarried women. "All of those things that traditionally you needed to find in a man -- a house, financial security -- they were raised with it," she says.
Lisa, a 28-year-old executive in Shanghai, has hired virtual boyfriends to act out romantic scenarios through text messaging.

"Of course, there were feelings of love, in letting myself feel like I was being loved," she said, preferring not to use her real name.
"Because I was just buying a service, I don't feel any guilt towards real people."
- Emotional fulfilment -

In the World Economic Forum's 2018 global gender gap report, China ranks 103 out of 149 countries on the overall disparity between men and women.
However, that climbs to 86 when ranked solely for economic participation and opportunity.

As their economic situation improves, fewer women are choosing to get married.

China's marriage rate -- the number of marriages per year -- has been in decline over the last five years. Last year it reached 7.2 per 1,000 people, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.

Once their basic needs are guaranteed, more women are looking to satisfy their need for "emotional and self-fulfilment," says Lake.

Although they are materially better off, the lives of many young urban women are "isolating", says Tan.

Most have spent their teenage years studying for the country's rigorous university entrance exams, at the cost of developing relationships outside of school.
Buying virtual boyfriends "is their chance to experiment with love and relationships," he says.
For Robin and Lisa, virtual companions are appealing because the relationship was convenient.

"If I have serious psychological stress, this could make some people think I'm being fussy," said Robin.
"But because I'm giving (the virtual companions) money, they have to reassure me."

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Getting paid to flirt up women....

Shit, how do I get in on this action?


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It's happening.
It's our time.
We are finally getting the respect we deserve.
Incels. Rise. Up.
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Umbreon posted...

Getting paid to flirt up women....

Shit, how do I get in on this action?

Go to China!

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@Chinese Babes

HMU for Free.99

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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...

It's happening.
It's our time.
We are finally getting the respect we deserve.
Incels. Rise. Up.

Haha

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Incels don't know how to comfort people though.


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well i recently came off a relationship. and some extra money is always welcome.

guess i can stone two birds at once... >_>

well fuck so much for French and italian in HS

the real moneymaker is chinese

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...So they don't want the d(ick), they want the e(ar)? And they're eager enough to pay for it?

Gentlemen, I believe we just discovered the secret to becoming man-thots.
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This is really an example of how women are clearly starving emotionally and physically over in China, its really sad when you think about it.

I really hope the western man sees the ripe opportunity here and does NOT waste it.

Good hunting men.

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The Catgirl Fondler posted...

...So they don't want the d(ick), they want the e(ar)? And they're eager enough to pay for it?

Gentlemen, I believe we just discovered the secret to becoming man-thots.

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bump

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Ultima Dragon posted...

What the fuck at women needing to pay for "virtual boyfriends." Isn't there significantly more men than women there?

I thought over in China women are looked down on. Like parents will go as far as aborting female children because they want male children instead. And even though there is a crisis over there growing because of this they still wont acknowledge women as equal to men. Although its not as bad there as muslim-majority countries

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NeonOctopus posted...

I'd give them company. Chinese chicks are the hottest asian chicks >_>

pics

au_gold posted...

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do you need to speak Mandarin?

Highwind07 posted...

It was true that they once had female infantcide but the government has banned it sometime ago and in modern day China that practice is gone.

yes but it wasn't that long ago and it was in effect for 30 years. and the effects of damage are still there in society. there is a documentary about this on amazon prime. I think it's called "One Child Nation". china fucked itself with that policy and supposedly the damage won't heal for multiple generations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMcJVoLwyD0

Zikten posted...

yes but it wasn't that long ago and it was in effect for 30 years. and the effects of damage are still there in society. there is a documentary about this on amazon prime. I think it's called "One Child Nation". china fucked itself with that policy and supposedly the damage won't heal for multiple generations

On top of that its not as if those beliefs just vanish overnight. I have no doubt sexism is a real problem over there

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*Lex Luger flex*
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for 30 years many countless girls were either aborted before birth or abandoned and left to die, live on the street or in an orphanage

Damn, I wish American women were this thirsty

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Kazi1212 posted...

Damn, I wish American women were this thirsty

Imagine

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