Having "snubbed" erotic telephone lines, video chats and messages, the new generation focuses on emotional connection rather than erotic one.
I'll tell you right away that if you're looking for prostitutes (better to use the term escort) or sexy Chinese girls, it's not an option. Not that you made the wrong post, you simply made the wrong country! Marrying a Chinese girl will become impossible :) In the last two years in China, dating sites and the market for male companionship for non-marital purposes has exploded. Single Chinese girls don't necessarily want to be wives. What are Chinese girls like? They can (and want) to pay and send messages, talk on the phone and video chat with “virtual boyfriends”.
Love and producer
In December 2017, the mobile game was introduced in China Love and producer. The game offers players the opportunity to juggle four boyfriends, each with a distinct personality.
Not even two months and the game has become the highest-grossing app in the Apple Store in China. Although the game itself was free, players spent around 200 million Yuan (28 million euros) until the following January, purchasing text messages and phone calls from the game's characters. Beautiful Chinese girls wanted to let it be known on their TikTok that they were romantically linked... to animated drawings (albeit well done).
From play to reality
Capitalizing on the success of this phenomenon, Chinese inventiveness has created a whole new market. The paid men's company, the "virtual boyfriend" has started offering its services on WeChat, a messaging app, and on e-commerce sites such as Taobao. And so you see beautiful Chinese girls without a real partner, but with many virtual acquaintances.
Prices range from a few yuan (around € 0,50) for 30 minutes of messaging to a few thousand yuan (around € 400) to guarantee a month of phone calls with the same man.
And how do they, the “virtual boyfriends,” behave? Do they also have an app with sexy Chinese women available only for emotional companionship? Precise and professional like all consultants, it seems. One of them, the 22 year old Zhuansun Xu, he said in a recent interview with Agence France-Presse “When we interact, I tell myself: I'm really her boyfriend, so how can I treat her well? And I always try to do my best.”
Commitment is rewarded: even single Chinese who don't yet live alone, oriental girls who are far from being able to get married, spend money to have a virtual boyfriend. Someone with whom to build an intimate dialogue of an emotional and non-erotic nature. Even beautiful girls who are absolutely capable of developing a relationship without the need for "subsidies". A 19-year-old student declares, in one of the many forums that have arisen on the topic, that she has spent more than 1.000 yuan (150 euros) to use the service. This makes us understand better what the Chinese like: mental commitment, physical disengagement?
Why does a woman agree to become a virtual girlfriend?
The reflection to be opened is necessary. The entire planet is full of sexy Chinese girls (broadening the discussion I should say sexy oriental girls, but let's stay on track). And to be honest, even single doctors, but it is not the "good match" that is sought today. I think that's the whole point: girls looking for a boyfriend but only virtual, not real. No husband and wife, I repeat. I wouldn't want to find myself in the shoes of an oriental marriage agency.
We can say everything we want about men, but if girls to be married (it would have been said once) prefer to meet boyfriends and partners in chat or download a virtual boyfriend app and not delve into a real relationship, perhaps they too have problems, they don't it's all about new opportunities. The virtual boyfriend could just be a symptom of something else. Or is it all a question of culture? Or is there a need for a broader reflection on the condition of women in China?
Changes in social demography give Chinese singles more independence
Let's analyze this particular "case" in the broader Eastern framework. Unlike other Asian women, Chinese women are creating a booming market for virtual male companionship. A market with great economic prospects, born largely due to the change in social demography. The app phenomenon has shined a light on what Chinese women like: mainly learning about romantic commitment.
The Chinese one-child policy, adopted in 1980, has led many families to choose to have a male child. In 2015 1.16 boys were born for each girl. Chinese women to marry are becoming increasingly popular. Too bad they don't want to.
In families who have chosen a daughter, however, girls can encounter unprecedented opportunities because they are no longer competing with their siblings for resources. This has led to a strong recovery in the social mobility of Chinese women, apparently also when it comes to love. Everything suggests that in the coming years we will see some beautiful ones.
Now women outnumber men in Chinese universities and can have successful careers. More and more women are choosing to live independently, especially in urban areas. In other words, women in China are transforming their role.
Over the past five years, the marriage rate in China it has constantly decreased when the "Chinese women" have chosen to follow paths other than the nuptial one. In 2015, the percentage of unmarried women aged between 30 and 34 was 10 times higher than in 1990. The much more westernized Koreans are almost stabilizing on the opposite trend, that of divorces.
The virtual boyfriend likes the Chinese single
Unlike telephone sex lines, exchanges between Chinese girls and virtual boyfriends are centered around emotional dialogues. The service is designed to help women who live independently when loneliness becomes a problem. Who knows what our countrymen would choose in Italy between such a service and a sexy line.
The questions only increase, and at the same time draw an increasingly chiaroscuro picture. The world has not yet cleared socially the rental of the body and prostitution, albeit widespread on a planetary level.
