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Hong Kong Economy Hurts Mistresses (AP):
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Money from across the border in Hong Kong is not flowing as freely as before into the hands of the many mainland Chinese women kept as mistresses by Hong Kong men in this and several other "er-nai cun" — "second wives villages."

"My friends used to cross the border three to four times a week, but now they may only go once a week," says Cheung Hung, a 47-year-old Hong Kong businessman who once kept two mistresses but says he now visits prostitutes. "Now, many have taken pay cuts and they don't spend as lavishly as before."

Capitalist Hong Kong's affluence has long been a magnet for women from poor provinces in central and western China.

Many of them settled in the melting pot of Shenzhen, where nearly half the 7 million residents are migrants. Prevented by immigration restrictions from crossing the border, the women hooked up with richer Hong Kong men living less than an hour away by commuter train.

There are no official statistics on the number of "second wives," but thousands of Hong Kong philanderers — from truck drivers to company bosses — sought out attractive mainland women in the myriad nightclubs, karaoke bars, massage parlors and other trysting spots that sprang up across Shenzhen.

For the equivalent of a few hundred dollars a month, these men kept "concubines," reviving an ancient Chinese tradition that is no longer legal in modern China. The mistresses led easy and extravagant lives by local standards, passing the time between trysts by playing mahjong, eating out and shopping.
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Oh my God. Look at this! I can't stop laughing at how Danny distorted all of our pictures.



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