Quote: (02-16-2014 01:34 PM)Horus Wrote:
Quote: (02-16-2014 01:28 PM)CaroQuintero Wrote:
Sounds like a business opportunity to build hourly motels.
Nah there are those kind of hotels on every street corner in Taiwan. There are usually two prices displayed - one for an overnight stay, and one to "take a rest." "Taking a rest" is obviously a euphemism for a short time stay to fuck your girl. It's really cheap and makes it easy as hell to convince a girl to spend some time with you - logistics aren't really a problem there because there will always be a hotel within five minute walk.
Plenty of people will also try to tell you with a straight face that those places are for married couples when they're for anything but. Many parts of Taiwan also have stores selling pornographic DVDs right on the street, not down some dodgy back alley. Plus, there are the famous betel nut beauties. Supposedly, a decade ago, they had to clamp down on them they were getting so out of hand. There are also those MTV places. Have you seen those? Let's not forget the practice (mostly out in the boonies these days) of naked dancers at weddings and even funerals. There's also always been a brothel within about ten minutes of every place I've lived in Taiwan, only they have some sort of euphemism like it being a place you can go to read a book with pretty girls. Sometimes, you can see the prostitutes out on the street burning ghost money to my avatar.
Every couple of years there's also a story on the news about some sordid goings on regarding public transport. Why PT, exactly, I don't know. An island of engineers fascinated with stuff that moves, perhaps? There was one a couple of years ago about guys renting out whole carriages on the national rail network, bringing hookers in and having massive orgies up and down the country (can't remember if there were ordinary people in the other carriages). Then there was one about some seventeen year old girl who was literally being gang banged by the entire drivers' lounge down at the local bus depot.
Everyone goes absolutely insane every time one of these stories comes out. I guess it's more exciting than the usual pap about giant yellow ducks or new beef noodle stands.
Taiwan (and probably much of East Asia) must be the place that is simultaneously the most sexualised country on the planet and also the most in denial about that.