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BEIJING: “A boy or girl student is wanted for Valentine’s Day:
20 yuan (about US$2.67) per hour for a movie, two yuan (nearly
US$0.3) for a hug and five yuan (nearly US$0.7) for a kiss.”
This is not an advertisement, but a post on a
city BBS on Thursday, and it attracted loads of messages. The male
college student who posted this didn’t want to spend a
Valentine’s Day without a sweetheart.
The student, who was named “always lonely in
university,” put up the post on February 12. He said he felt bad
when he saw couples out together—and he definitely didn’t want
to spend another Valentine’s Day without a girlfriend.
It astonished everyone that his post was quite
popular among Internet users. A girl even left her e-mail address or
QQ number, with the hope of receiving both love and money on
Valentine’s Day.
A boy who is named “I love girlfriend” said
he had few expectations to rent a girlfriend. He put up the post
because he was lonely. “If I can find one, it will be a romantic
Valentine’s Day. However, I’ll lose nothing even if I
can’t,” he said.
Two other students expressed the same idea,
“Nothing is impossible these days,” they said.
But some claimed that renting love is not pure.
One of their messages read that life would be colorful if one could
spend a Valentine’s Day with a person you love. But it is really
weird if you rent a person. You’d not feel happy to have a day,
which is more like a business deal.
Two Spring Forum is a BBS where such posts
appear. A forum official, who refused to give his name, said that
these posts would not be deleted. “There are also many similar
posts on other forums. These posts haven’t violated any rule of
our forum, and they will not harm others.”
In fact, the “rental” of girlfriend has been
popular in recent years. Last year, a Peking University student, Zhu
Lijie, offered 1,000 yuan (about US$133.3) for 10 days “rental”
of a girlfriend to take home for the holidays to please his parents.
“People who rent girlfriends to go home just
mean to comfort their parents. But people who rent a ‘lover’ for
a Valentine’s Day are just trying to please themselves,” said Dr
Zheng Xiaohua, an expert at a psychiatric hospital in Changchun,
capital of northeastern Jilin Province.
-- Xinhua
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