{"id":6378,"date":"2011-10-18T03:42:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T07:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=6378"},"modified":"2011-10-18T03:42:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T07:42:19","slug":"chinese-love-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinese-love-part-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Love – Part Three"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There was no such thing as "sexy" during the Cultural Revolution.<\/p><\/div>\n

As I mentioned in my last post<\/a>, attitudes toward sex in China have changed drastically over the past few decades. And, as Steve discussed in his post<\/a>, the ratio of men to women has increased steadily over the same amount of time. So, what is the result for modern China? Well, for many Chinese men, it means a much more difficult road to finding a partner. According to a recent study<\/a>, more than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age could find themselves without spouses in 2020. Just like the frat party full of drunk college boys and no girls, there’s not much good that can come of this situation. Many men resort to prostitution <\/strong>(\u5356\u6deb – m\u00e0i y\u00edn), or they just accept the realities of bachelor-hood and take up an intense World of Warcraft hobby. For the women, however, they now find themselves more in control in a historically patriarchal society. Just one generation ago, people were forced into marriage by the Communist Party – marriages which would more often than not be loveless and sexless. In the Mao era, sex was viewed simply as a means of reproduction. Sex was forbidden before marriage, open discussion about sex was unheard of, and there was absolutely no such thing as a “sex life.” During the Cultural Revolution<\/strong> (\u6587\u9769 – w\u00e9n g\u00e9), men and women wore the same asexual party garb, everyone had short hair, and cuples were more so comrades<\/strong> (\u540c\u5fd7 – t\u00f3ng zh\u00ec) then they were lovers <\/strong>(\u60c5\u4eba – q\u00edng r\u00e9n). Interestingly enough, the Chairman himself was quite the playboy<\/strong>(\u82b1\u82b1\u516c\u5b50 – hu\u0101 hu\u0101 g\u014dng z\u01d0); it’s said that he had a thing for virgins, which kept him young.<\/p>\n

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