The growing number of millionaires in China has increased a need for more attractive women to mate with them. Because of course the millionaires are all men. Uh huh. So anyway, here we have who wants to marry a millionaire, love boat style.
The love boat service is being launched in Shanghai later this month, according to the state-run China Daily newspaper.It quoted organiser Xu Tianli as saying that the men had to be worth at least 2m yuan ($250,000; £130,000), and that 20 had signed up so far.
They were looking for women attractive in every category, and only approved 30 out of 1,000 applicants. They also noted that a lot of these men meet women through business and lordy knows, we don't want no working girls.
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Hmm. I thought it was considered gauche at best, and harassment at worst to pursue partners at work.
It's been 26 years since the implementation of China's official one-child policy. This has caused a surplus of between 40 million and 100 million unmarried men, depending on whose statistics you look at. As bizarre-at-first-blush as the "love boat" thing is, it kind of pales in comparison to, on the one hand, "Joe Millionaire" et al. over here, and on the other, the outright purchase and sale of women (including dead ones), abduction, forced prostitution, and trafficking, all of which have also resulted from the "woman shortage."
purchase and sale of women (including dead ones), abduction, forced prostitution, and trafficking, all of which have also resulted from the "woman shortage."
Sex-selective abortion is bad news all around.