What is most striking in my conversations with friends at school here in Beijing is the extreme difficulty Western women have dating Chinese men, which is in sharp contrast to the renowned ease with which Western men help themselves to Chinese women. The purpose of this essay is to examine the reasons for this. Every Western woman I talk to here describes her love life in Asia as highly wanting, and each offers the same …showed first 75 words of 622 total…

…showed last 75 words of 622 total…the first thing I hear when I wake up is some guy coughing his lungs out. Can't they at least do it inside their homes? With women at a premium, don't they have any self-respect? That is an important question as with the one child policy, there are now 116 men to 100 women in places. As long as I have the looks, the attitude and the big pay cheque, this works out just fine to me.