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[Marty47]

PM me and tell me about yourself and will advise you.

Gentlemen,

I am going to Shanghai on a business trip on June 28. This will be my first time in China, so I don't know much about the mongering scene there. What are some of the popular places I should visit during my stay there? Maybe we can go mongering together.

I am also interested in escorts. If you know any girls or a reliable escort service, please do let me know.

[Jimmy420]

Gentlemen,

I am going to Shanghai on a business trip on June 28. This will be my first time in China, so I don't know much about the mongering scene there. What are some of the popular places I should visit during my stay there? Maybe we can go mongering together.

I am also interested in escorts. If you know any girls or a reliable escort service, please do let me know.

[Tightway]

ISG is not blocked by the Great Firewall of China...

Probably because they are monitoring it for information.

So everybody be careful about giving personal information. And always use a good VPN (Virtual Private Network) provider when using the internet, even if you are in the West. Just pay for one, it is worth it.

Anyone can find one which works for China if you just google it.

[Tightway]

What is your definition of "freebie"?

How much money are you prepared to spend? Hahaha.

Looking forward to your answers.

P13.

I am not spending any money on freebies.

But the girls who used to WGs need the money but don't have the place to work anymore.

They are on the streets, and would be thankful for your contribution.

If a girl needs to send money to her family (parents) to support them, than getting money is a priority, and having a rich BF a necessity. They even fall in love with their rich BF, so you should be fair and honest to tell her what you are looking for in the end.

[TitanX]

I was on another site and came across this agency few days ago. They claim to have ladies available in several cities across China.

http://opsman5.wix.com/escort4china

Happy hunting.

[Intransit]

By Raquel Carvalho.

Hooligan Sparrow director lands US screenings, hopes documentary is seen locally and in China.

A documentary that followed Ye Haiyan, an outspoken advocate for sex workers' rights in the mainland, and other activists, including human rights lawyer Wang Yu arrested in January for subversion had its world premiere at the renowned Sundance Film Festival in the US.

Having conquered the major event for independent cinema as China cracks down on human rights, director Nanfu Wang is aiming to show Hooligan Sparrow soon in Hong Kong and in the mainland.

Wang, who went to the US in 2011 to study documentary filmmaking, told the Sunday Morning Post this was not the film she had imagined when she started the project. "I was interested in Chinese sex workers' story, their life and rights," she recalled. "So I contacted Ye Haiyan", also known as Hooligan Sparrow.

But when Wang, originally from a small village in Jiangxi province, returned to China in 2013, she found the urge to tell a different story. "I realised that she was not working with any sex workers at the moment," she said of Ye. "But I didn't stop and say, 'This is not the film I wanted to make.

Wang decided to follow Ye and her fellow activists to a protest in Hainan province, where a school principal and a government official allegedly raped six elementary school girls aged between 11 and 14 in 2013.

She sensed the story was "much bigger" and more complex than she had thought since it involved state surveillance, censorship, corruption, and sex violence. "I kept filming because I believed that someone needed to record what was happening and share it with the world," she said.

Wang shot the film with a small DSLR camera and a hidden camera mounted on a pair of eyeglasses. Soon she became a target of intimidation and violence along with Sparrow and other activities.

"I was surrounded and threatened by screaming mobs," Wang said. A friend was interrogated by police. National security agents hounded her family and questioned her for hours.

"They demanded that I give them my footage," she said. "I was never arrested, but seeing the activists being detained and knowing that I could be next made me live in a constant state of fear as I was working on this project. ".

Despite the recent crackdown on human rights activists, namely lawyers, in the mainland, and the plight of the five missing Hong Kong booksellers including one who disappeared while in Thailand Wang said she felt safe in New York. She said she had no plans to return to China in the next few years.

But Wang, who was not involved in politics prior to the film project, said she was worried about those who took part in her documentary. "Right now, I'm very concerned about people in my film," she said, singling out as an example human rights lawyer Wang Yu.

Yu has been detained since July last year and was formally arrested on subversion charges last month. "I hope the film will raise awareness of her situation and allow people to see who she really is and what she does," Wang said.

The filmmakers said the main character Ye at present lived in Wuhan but that her passport was confiscated in November 2014, effectively preventing her from travelling. Nevertheless, Wang said, Ye was "still speaking out actively online".

The documentary was shot between May and August 2013, but editing was only completed in November last year.

Hooligan Sparrow, Wang's feature debut, was shown in six venues in the US at the end of January.

Her courage as a director was applauded by critics. A review from Hollywood Reporter reads: "Wang makes a virtue out of necessity: Her on-the-run scoping and jarring cuts infuse the film with a sense of desperate danger befitting its subject matter. ".

Source URL: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/p...dance-festival.

[Ikksman]

We are still 5 weeks away from Chinese New Year, but now is the time to be aware, very aware of pickpockets.

Every year, I see them brazenly operating both during the day and at night in Shenzhen. They also steal items or handbags out of buyers' shopping trolleys in the better supermarkets such as Carrefour etc. This is why you see women wearing their handbags strapped across their shoulders, or looping the straps around their trolleys. Every person I know has suffered pickpocketing attempts at this time of year.

This year will probably be worse as there are tens of thousands of construction workers who have not been paid for months due to the downturn in the economy.

Ikksman

[Ikksman]

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/955723.shtml

Websites and agents that offer travel companions to keep tourists company and show them around new places have emerged in China in recent years, which seem to simply be an extension of the services tour guides offer. However, more is on offer than just local knowledge.

An investigation conducted by China Central Television (CCTV) journalists found that many "travel companions" are selling sex to their clients.
{S N I P}

Hi, I am aware that many of your hundreds of posts are just regurgitated articles by journalists. OK, I know that you claim that these are informative and useful. This is not necessarily so! They can be ill-informed and misleading!

Are you aware that the Global Times is a media outlet controlled by the CCP? Therefore its articles follow the official party line and generally are not the whole truth, and could be complete BS. Additionally, they are often a warning, or indication of future action or policy change by the government.

Rather than just blithely posting extracts from the article, why don't you write a balanced analysis and interpretation of the article. Otherwise, you are just posting pure, unadulterated communist propaganda.

Ikksman

[Intransit]

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/955723.shtml

Websites and agents that offer travel companions to keep tourists company and show them around new places have emerged in China in recent years, which seem to simply be an extension of the services tour guides offer. However, more is on offer than just local knowledge.

An investigation conducted by China Central Television (CCTV) journalists found that many "travel companions" are selling sex to their clients.

Lewdness and lies.

Searching online for a travel companion leads one to a number of websites dedicated to providing female companions, with photos and seductive descriptions of girls popping out once one enters a site.

The services usually cost from a few thousand yuan to 10,000 yuan ($1,564) per day. A CCTV journalist contacted a girl through a phone number listed on such a site who explained that "the expensive fee is both for travelling together at day time and sleeping together at night. ".

Many girls contacted by the journalist claimed that they provide sex in addition to tour services, and the prices on the website only cover having sex once. The cost of an overnight service is higher.

The so-called "travel companion's" extra services usually take place in hotels, but a few girls also provide sex venues.

Many girls claim in their online bios that they are college students, white-collar workers or models.

A girl who claimed to be a college student in Beijing said that she charges 3,000 yuan for her services. When the journalist met her at her rented apartment near the city's North Third Ring Road, she looked different from the online photos she posted.

She said that she did sex work to pay for her tuition, but she refused to show the journalist her student ID.

A girl who said she was a white-collar worker in Sichuan Province did not post real photos of herself either.

Some "travel companions" try to proactively promote themselves online. They post photos of themselves in revealing outfits and provocative poses with suggestive descriptions on their Weibo accounts to attract as many followers as possible. Some accounts were shut down due to their pornographic content.

These girls spend money to advertise themselves online in order to charge clients more and their bios are fabricated, a Shanghai police officer surnamed Sun told CCTV.

Sun said that some sex workers spend a fortune on plastic surgery in South Korea, and some workers earn up to 30,000 yuan in cash in one day.

Sex trade platforms.

To find yourself a "travel companion," you have to get access to the websites first. The information of thousands of girls across China is listed on such sites, but clients have to pay an annual membership fee ranging from several hundred to several thousand yuan to select girls and get their phone number.

Each time clients want to meet a new girl they also have to pay another 1,000 yuan to the site as an introduction fee.

Driven by profit, many girls have taken taking advantage of the convenience of online platforms to get into sex work.

A "travel companion" who said she was 16 called her work "making friends. " She planed to rent her own apartment using the money she earned.

The journalist met the girl outside a compound in Beijing's Haidian district, and asked her what "making friends" means to her.

"It's just prostitution," the girl said casually. She didn't know whether her work was legal or not.

Some "travel companions" do not provide sex but are agents that introduce other girls to sex work.

Such agents post sexy photos of girls online with a description of their height and other measurements, and charge 5,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan for sex.

The prostitution network formed by the "travel companion" websites and social media covers many cities in China, which has encouraged the spread of the sex trade.

Meng Wei, a research fellow with Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told CCTV that the online sex trade has spread at an astonishing speed and has had a major impact on society, especially among young people who are frequent users of the Internet.

Experts believe that the Internet sex trade must be dealt with as soon as possible. Besides public security departments, the operators of the WeChat and QQ, instant messaging apps, should also shoulder the responsibility of cracking down on these kinds of activities.

[Ikksman]

When and if my SYT goes back to her hometown (in Hanshou County in the backblocks of Hunan), for Chinese New Year, I will have 3 weeks for holidaying by myself. I would naturally prefer China but it seems a cultural desert for short term visitors of my ilk.

So, unless someone can tell of a location that meets my varied cultural tastes, and the pleasures are readily available, I am going to go to Jakarta before it too heads down the same path as China (hey Eddie, I might even catch up with your mate Ko K!).

Any suggestions for a single traveller in China?

Cheers.

P.S. And don't abuse me for being unfaithful. My delightful yummy SYT knows what I am like and forgives me these temporary lapses (on the conditions that I don't bring anything home and that she doesn't hear about it on TV or whatever). Actually, she has possibly found out about a couple of lapses in the past, but she has said nothing and continued to be the loving, natural courtesan China doll that I fell for. How I was lucky enough to win the heart of such a beauty - she is 41 years younger than me - is totally beyond my comprehension.

P.P.S. I was chatting to a Northern Chinese the other day. I honestly could not understand most of his speech. It was almost like he had a country drawl to his speech. I guess that my ear has become attuned to the Southern Chinese ways of speech, including mixing in their local dialect. It really is like 2 different countries!

[Ikksman]

This is a bit OT I know, but this series of Chinese photos is one of the most bizarre that I have seen:

http://www.quyanshe.com/tupian/toupaitu/5-988090.html

Enjoy?!?!?!?!

Ikks

[Ikksman]

Internet use in China is extremely frustrating. Not only one has to contend with the Great Wall, but it appears the internet service providers limit traffic and usage. I pay over 300 rmb a month to China Telecom for "unlimited" internet, and I subscribe to a VPN service. I watch a lot of movies, but now for the whole last month, I cannot stream vids anymore. The speed I got was about 10 kb / sec. It was never more than 50 kB. Sec previously. The processor in my laptop is I3. I tried early morning (2 AM) when there should not be much traffic, and the speed was not improved. There does not seem to be anyone at China Telecom I can complain to. It is more than upsetting.

Are you attempting to stream from USA Sites or local ones like sohu dot com?

The main (only?) connection out of China is through Beijing, and this is an extremely bad bottleneck. So, if you are using a VPN service to access local sites, I would expect the service to be very slow as you are going out through the Beijing bottleneck and then coming back into China to the local site via the same bottleneck. And then the download data goes back to you through the same long tortuous route in reverse.

It is also possible, but I feel unlikely, that China (and China Telecom is an SOE) throttles VPN services (they can recognise the IPs of proxy servers used by the VPN companies).

Most people I know have their primary internet interconnection through their TV Cable company (such as Topway in SZ). They use that to download movies to later watch on their laptop/phablet/phone.

I have always found that internet speed drops dramatically after dinner time as that is when all the gamers log on for their all night sessions.

Ikksman

P.S. The Chinese government has relented and Big Bang Theory is allowed back into China (from Jul 14 I think).

[Ikksman]

Ha Ha!

No law in China stipulates that having sex with a prostitute of legal age is a crime. However, it is an administrative offence under the Penalties for Administration of Public Security (2005).

According to this 2005 law, both prostituting and visiting prostitutes are administrative offences (administered by the PSB). A WG or a person who goes whoring shall be detained for between 10 and 15 days and may in addition be fined up to 5,000 yuan. If the circumstances are relatively minor (arbitrarily determined by the PSB), the detention can be up to 5 days, and up to 500 yuan fine.

Article 360 of the Criminal Law (1997) provides that whoever has sex with a prostitute under the age of 14 shall be imprisoned for not less than 5 years and may also be fined.

Article 236 of the Criminal Law (1997) provides that whoever has sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 14 shall be deemed to have committed 'r a p e' and shall be given a heavier punishment than for 'r a p i n g' a woman (and can be life imprisonment or death under specified circumstances).

There is an obvious overlap between these 2 articles, and this overlap has been infamously misused many times, where young schoolgirls have been raped, and police have only charged the offenders (usually government officials) of sex with an 'u n d e r a g e' prostitute (and only when public outcry has forced the police to take action).

This reminds me of the case where police initially refused to charge an official with 'r a p e', because it was determined that he used a condom!!!! Only after reporters sniffed out the story and published it, and netizens caused a hue and cry, did the police eventually charge the official.

Unfortunately, now the people who report these crimes, are effectively muzzled by the harsh application of various laws (disturbing public order etc, etc).

Ikksman.

[NorthSouth]

Internet use in China is extremely frustrating. Not only one has to contend with the Great Wall, but it appears the internet service providers limit traffic and usage. I pay over 300 rmb a month to China Telecom for "unlimited" internet, and I subscribe to a VPN service. I watch a lot of movies, but now for the whole last month, I cannot stream vids anymore. The speed I got was about 10 kb / sec. It was never more than 50 kB. Sec previously. The processor in my laptop is I3. I tried early morning (2 AM) when there should not be much traffic, and the speed was not improved. There does not seem to be anyone at China Telecom I can complain to. It is more than upsetting.

[Tazman099]

Speaking of firewalls, can anyone tell me whether you are able or unable to view photos on AFF (asia friend finder) from within China with no VPN?

I have a friend in Beijing who can see the AFF site, but no photos appear, as if they are blocked. I'm not in China now, so I can't check to see for myself. I can't understand why my friend can't see any photos. The problem is on that site only. Multiple computers were tried, including the person's mobile phone and home computer.

Save the trouble and get vpnme. It's like $30/ yr and I'd guess greater than 95% up time.