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Women: Check out this new travel destination. Men: Stay away!

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Perry White, Apr 26, 2007.

  1. Perry White

    Perry White Active Member

    More details: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2488810.ece

    There will be special courts set up, with judges who can order male tourists to be whipped if they fail to fulfil their partner's wishes for chocolate, or perfume, or anything at all. No cat-of-nine-tails this whip, however - it is specially made and described as being "soft" so it won't hurt the transgressors too much.

    Shuangqiao suffers from having little to recommend it as a tourist hot spot, except for the local custom where men work in the coal mine and hand over all their wages to wives, who tend farms, perform household chores and "maintain complete control over their husbands", according to local media.
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    Many visitors come to visit the Dazhu Stone Carvings, a World Cultural Heritage site not far from Shuangqiao, and she said she hoped to lure the tourists to come to "Women's Town" and enjoy what she called "feminine games". Li Ji, a local tourism official, insisted that "Women's Town" was being built "only for recreational purposes" and was not intended to have anything to do with feminism.
     
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