While polygamy is considered as a taboo subject in our society, one global city is bucking the trend with so many women living there that most men have two or three girlfriends.
Dongguan, in south China’s Guangdong Province, is known for producing popular electronics such as iPhones and iPads – and also acting as the Chinese ‘capital of sex’.
Thanks to the one child policy which operated in China for many years, the country has a massive gender imbalance with millions more men than women in the country.
Local factories running assembly plants prefer not to use men as they find them unreliable and instead offer work mainly to women.
This means the city has many more women than men, with the men taking odd jobs and casual work, leaving them with plenty of time on their hands.
And that means time for more than one girlfriend.
Some admit they have two or three permanent girlfriends at the same time.
One man told local TV: “It is a lot easier here to find a girlfriend than a job.”
The few men who do have jobs at the factories are in an even better position when it comes to finding a girlfriend, because most of the women end up spending long hours at work on the production lines.
The disproportionate number of women has recently led to Dongguan being branded the ‘capital of sex’ with many women still willingly and knowingly involving themselves in relationships with men who already have other partners.
Agencies
