Welcome To The City Where Women Are Happy To Share Boyfriends And Pay To Keep Them Happy

A Chinese city has recently come under fire for its culture of polyamorous relationships and kept men.

In Dongguan, southern China, a man with several girlfriends who pay to 'keep' him is now the norm, reported People's Daily Online.

Most of the young women involved are low-paid factory workers who are hoping to get married to the men in the near future.

Chinese media recently published a set of pictures showing many men in Dongguan are holding, kissing or lying in bed with more than one woman.

Dongguan is an important industrial city in southern China's Guangdong province. It's frequently dubbed the 'manufacturing centre of the world' or the 'world's factory', but it also has a reputation as the sex capital of China.

After a clean up of the city's sex industry, Dongguan has once again made the headlines as a sleazy metropolis where women are okay sharing boyfriends and shack up with these kept men.

As factory girls are only allocated dorm rooms, shared with other women, many have moved out to rent rooms in the city. To save on rent, some are even forced to share rooms, divided by only makeshift fabric curtains, with other couples. The young lovers must take turns to go for walks to give their room mates the time for copulation.

While the allegations have shocked the rest of China, the unusual social structure seems to be the norm among the migrant factory workers in the city. One man, named as Li Bin, claims he has three factory girlfriends. He cohabits with one, is in a romantic relationship with another and treats the third as a lover.

Li Bin even claims that 'they all know each other' and are okay with the arrangement.

He said: 'My third girlfriend works close by. She often looked sad so I went to talk to her.

'She proposed that we start dating. I told her "I already have two girlfriends, I can't have a third. We can be lovers," and she agreed.' 

Another man, referred to as Xiao Lin, revealed that he also has three girlfriends.

He said: 'It's very normal. Those who come to make a life are all the same. Xiao Lin added: 'Several of my friends do it too. One man with several women is very normal.'

'Young and beautiful factory girls are everywhere. They're simple and easy to get along with, why not have several?'

'It would be too embarrassing for someone to have just one girlfriend. Everyone will laugh at him.'

Justifying his approach to dating, Xiao Lin says: 'Everyone is young, we can play for a few years.

'When it's the right age, all the girls go home and get married. They are still decent women.'

The culture of polyamorous relationships has given rise to another phenomenon - that of kept men.

This problem is so widespread that it has even given rise to a local saying: 'It's not easy for a male factory worker to find a job but a female worker cannot go without a boyfriend.' 

Women who share a boyfriend are said to lavish attention and money on the men in order to become the favourite.

-Daily Mail

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