After being shocked by a small card in a hotel in Nanning

I stayed in a hotel in Nanning for five days. Every night when I returned to the hotel, I found a large number of small cards containing sexually explicit suggestions on the door handles, door cracks, and floors. According to the content on the cards, nearby There should be several "health clubs" that persevere in distributing it every day. The health club comes to hand out small cards every day. The hotel must know and acquiesce, and maybe even participate in it.

I have been traveling a lot in the past few years and have stayed in quite a few hotels of various types. I have stayed in youth hostels, inns, family hotels, express hotels, star hotels, small hotels, etc. I only occasionally stay in I have seen prostitution hotlines written in the corridors of some small hotels, but I have never seen serious small cards, let alone large-scale distribution of small cards with the tacit approval of the hotel. Even during the National Day holiday in Jiayuguan in 2015, I didn’t book a hotel in advance and spent a few nights in a bathing center. I never received any hint of sex trafficking. Those bathing centers provide bathing, scrubbing, soaking, foot washing, and massage. , massage and other services, but this bathing center that has been misunderstood by people does not have sexual services.

So, I was shocked in Nanning. However, it would be too false to say that I have never received any hints or explicit indications of sex trafficking. Let’s talk about these hints and explicit indications.

In July 2014, I was lucky enough to stay in Chengdu for a few days. My life was relatively poor, so I was not able to formally eat a few Sichuan dishes. But because I like to go out at night, I got a glimpse of Chengdu's "nightclub" style.

One day, I played outside until almost ten o'clock in the evening and walked back to the inn. The pace of life in Chengdu was slow and most of the shops were closed. That day I saw shops that were still open on the street. Most of them were flashing red lights, a bit like scenes from horror movies. At first I thought it was strange. Logically speaking, shops open at night shouldn't have brighter lights to make it easier for customers to choose products. . Being very curious, I looked at a few stores that were open before I finally figured it out. There is a curtain in the shop. Behind the curtain may be a room or a staircase. There are sofas or chairs outside the curtain. There are several scantily clad women sitting there. Those women are usually playing with their mobile phones. They will use ambiguous words when pedestrians pass by. He looked outside the store, saying nothing.

While walking around in Chengdu, I realized why the sex service area is called a red light district. Although I didn’t eat a few serious Sichuan dishes, I learned a little knowledge and my stay in Chengdu was not in vain.

This time the scene took place on the 318 National Highway of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway, which belongs to the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan, close to Tibet.

At noon on July 26, 2014, I was riding the Sichuan-Tibet Line and my teammates and I arrived at Road Ban 119. Road Ban is a tent set up by road construction workers when building roads. After the road is repaired, it is often abandoned. . A Tibetan couple opened a simple restaurant in this Taoban, specializing in business for cyclists and hikers. It was the peak travel season and business was very good, but there was only one pressure cooker, so the lady boss was making noodles for us to eat, while the boss was helping and chatting with us. The guests and the host were chatting happily, and suddenly the boss said to us: "You are so tired from riding, so you need to have a good rest. Why don't you stay in the inn tonight and come with us to stay in the mountains for one night. The mountains are very fun and there are many small places." Girls, there are both Tibetan and Han Chinese.” (Trump consciously imagined a Tibetan accent)

It has been almost three years, and I still don’t know whether the boss was pimping or joking.

In July 2015, after visiting Qinghai, I took the train back to Guangdong. Because I wanted to visit the famous Shaanxi Provincial History Museum, I got off the train in Xi'an.

As soon as I got out of the train station, a middle-aged woman came to me enthusiastically. She initially thought she wanted to "borrow money", but of course, it was not, so the following conversation took place:

"Sir, is it tiring to come to Xi'an by train?"

"A little bit."

"Have you booked a hotel? My hotel is right in front. The price is cheap and there are signs. Do you want to stay in a standard room for one night?”

“No, thank you. I’m just passing through Xi’an, and I’ll take the train to Wuhan in the evening.”

“It’s very tiring to wait for the train. Why don’t you take a break and find a girl to accompany you? There are school girls.”

Of course, there was no follow-up, and I hurried on as I wanted to see the museum. However, that day was a Monday and the museum was closed, so I took a bus to Wuhan in the evening. It was a pity that I should have stayed in Xi'an for one more day.

I have always been curious about the sex industry and sex workers. Of course, I don’t want to buy services. In 2014, I applied for a class with Teacher Mao Gai and talked about my views on the anti-pornography campaign in Dongguan to all the students in the college for a full hour. However, I was not satisfied with that class presentation because I didn’t know much about the sex industry, especially sex workers, and the talk was only superficial.