Single This Valentine's Day? Get a Rental Boyfriend
LatestIf you’re in the market for a boyfriend but are wary about making a big investment in love, perhaps you should consider renting instead of buying. “Rental boyfriends” are the latest booming business in China.
You can actually rent a boyfriend or a girlfriend in China, but the rental boyfriends are much more popular, apparently because of societal pressure in the country for women to get married by the time they’re 27, lest they be labeled “leftover women.” The idea behind the business is so that women—usually around 25 years old—can bring a date to dinner parties, company events, or holiday celebrations to make themselves appear “stable and settled” or datable or so that their parents’ don’t “lose face” because their “older” single daughters are unlovable. And here I thought the idea behind escorts was to get laid.