Plug n' play has never been this much fun

A few days back, Shangahiist wrote about how half of the city’s white collar workers rarely if ever go out, but we never quite explained why. While our staffs and half a dozen interns are still hard at work trying to pin down the exact reasons behind this sociological conundrum, we did just have our first breakthrough revelation: From our friends at the titillating and informative Asian-Sirens.com, we learned of this interesting tidbit:

Where was I when they held the Sexual Culture Fair here in Guangzhou, China last year and designated this cyber-toy as an AIDS prevention product?

The rage of the show, these are sets of latex organs that can be plugged into a USB port and controlled remotely by your partner at the other end of the firewall. Interactive gaming just got interesting. It was intended for couples separated geographically by work or circumstance. Right!

Perhaps read less into “couples” and more “circumstance” as in “single people get horny, too”. Either way, we suspect a lot of would be bar traffic from local white collar workers is redirected homeward because of this nifty little invention. By the way, those of you who missed out on last year’s “Sexpo” in Guangzhou, fret not. Another such festivity is going to be held in Shanghai, in a few weeks time.

But what about the guys, you ask? How do they get their fill (so to speak)? Apparently the Communist Youth League noticed the same egregious inequality, and again we quote from Asian-Sirens.com:

The National Sex Studies Institute loved this item, but the The Communist Youth League (who also has it in for Voodoo dolls) considers the gizmo "one-sided" (I am not sure they measured the impact of that phrase,) and says it "does not consider the welfare of the majority" (Imagine that!) and that it is a "betrayal of thousands of years of traditional Chinese morality."

Shanghaiist is heartened that the CYL is looking out for us guys, but invoking “thousands of years of traditional Chinese morality” on a USB vibrator seems like a bit of overkill. Just imagine what they’d say if China were to have seedy massage parlors or KTVs with underground prostitution rings. Nah, never!