"Beauty silicone TPE doll,...just like a real person, with a voice, and a variety of face shapes for you to choose..." This is a soliciting advertisement posted by Chen Bing on WeChat Moments on August 26. The adult experience hall where he works, It will officially open in Beijing two days later.
Dress up silicone dolls as real people and then provide sexual services to customers. This kind of business is called "adult experience halls" in the industry. It first appeared in Shenzhen, Guangdong, and gradually appeared in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou. Many consumers have one after another. Go to "early adopters".
However, the legitimacy of the adult experience center has always attracted attention because it provides sexual services. Many people associate it with "prostitution and whoring".
Xu Guimin, an associate professor at the Law School of Zhengzhou University, said that according to Chinese law, prostitution and whoring emphasizes that it is a natural person with a living body, which must occur between two people. Silicone dolls are toys and are not natural persons in the legal sense. This charge will be dealt with.
Yang Liang, a lawyer at Beijing Dacheng (Shenzhen) Law Firm, believes that as a new thing, it remains to be seen whether the business scope of the adult experience center can be approved by the industrial and commercial department. There is indeed no clear prohibitive law to regulate its behavior. .
It is precisely because of the uncertain legality and blind spots in supervision that the adult experience center is in a gray area.
A reporter from the Beijing News found that most adult experience centers do not have signs and are hidden in high-rise office buildings, apartments or hotels. They use the banner of "SPA massage" on the Internet, but they actually use silicone dolls to provide sexual services by the hour. Fees are charged and the number of experiences is unlimited. Some businesses have even launched ten-hour experience products, leaving customers overnight in disguise.
In the actual operation of the adult experience center, there are also certain blind spots in the supervision of hygiene and operation.
Product introductions and price lists are displayed in an adult experience hall. Photo by the Beijing News Investigation Team
Novelty experience:
There are more than 600 orders in half a year
"I saw an adult experience hall when I was looking for a restaurant. There were sensual dolls on the bed of the room, which was more advanced than inflatable." Recently, Weibo netizen "Jin Jincan" posted that he found an adult when he was looking for a restaurant on a life service platform. Experience Hall.
On a certain life service platform, consumers often share their feelings of experiencing silicone dolls: "It's so novel."
On September 12, a reporter from the Beijing News searched the homepage of the life service platform and found that similar adult experience halls appeared in many popular cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Wuhan, and Chengdu. There are only five or six shops in Yu, and these shops often appear under the "novelty experience" column. Even if you don't enter keywords, the system will automatically pop them up and rank them in the top.
From the information displayed by the merchants, they provide different styles of realistic doll experience services, depending on the product and the length of the service. The single charge ranges from 200 yuan to 500 yuan. Some merchants have also launched rental and retail products. More than 600 transactions occurred in the shop within half a year.
A reporter from the Beijing News noticed that on a certain life service platform, in order to attract attention, many adult experience centers have typed words such as "SPA massage" and "maintenance conditioning". The purchase instructions show that no appointment is required, but you must wear a mask and Temperature measurement.
Zero Adult Experience Hall is located in the Geek Conglin Community on North Lishuiqiao Road.
When talking to the business for the first time, the other party told the Beijing News reporter that "you need to make an appointment in advance to experience the store, which is the address reserved by the platform." However, the reserved address does not mention the room number of the specific floor.
According to the appointment time, after the Beijing News reporter arrived at the community where the experience hall is located, the other party did not disclose the room number, but sent a man downstairs to take the reporter to a building called "Hui + Ideal Township" in the community. Apartment building.
A few minutes later, the reporter and the man took the elevator to the Zero Point Experience Hall, put on shoe covers after entering the house, and led the reporter to visit the room.
This experience hall is more like a small family hotel, with a living room, kitchen and bathroom. The owner Lin Yi and his partner live in one of the rooms, and the other three rooms are used for business activities. Each room There is a silicone doll with different styles, some are tall and plump, some are cute and cute. They all wear sexy clothes for anyone to choose from.
In an adult experience center, a sexy silicone doll is placed on the bed.
Photo by the Beijing News Investigation Team
A reporter from the Beijing News randomly selected a room. A semi-naked silicone doll sat in the center of the bed. It was about 1.6 meters tall. The head, arms, thighs and other parts could swing. Turn on the switch on the back to communicate with customers. Simple voice interaction.
Lin Yi said that he had sold cars before and also dried meltblown cloth. After the epidemic, he saw adult experience halls popping up in many places. He felt that silicone dolls were new, so he opened this experience hall with two friends. , He and a friend are in charge of the store management, and another friend manages the online store selling silicone dolls.
"Many people are rushing to solve their physical needs, including single men in their twenties, and middle-aged people who have already married." When speaking, a guest in another room had just finished the experience and planned to leave in the living room. .
Lin Yi estimated that this guest should be over 50 years old.
Nowadays, there are twos and threes of customers coming to the store to experience every day, but after excluding the rent and purchase costs, the zero adult experience center has not yet achieved profitability. When chatting with a reporter from the Beijing News, Lin Yi and his partners seemed not in a hurry: "This market should It's bigger, you have to do it slowly."
On a life service platform, the experience hall did not specify the specific address.
Health risks:
Black dirt remains on the body of the silicone doll
For ordinary consumers, hygiene and experience are what they care more about.
At the beginning of September, the waiter of another adult experience center told the Beijing News reporter that in order to ensure hygiene, they implemented "one-guest one-disinfection" and changed bed sheets and pillows a day. Although silicone dolls are shared, they will give two condoms. , You can feel relieved to experience.
In a cleaned up experience room in the store, a semi-naked silicone doll was lying on a disposable sheet on the bed, with a little black spot and dirt remaining on its body. The reporter tried to wipe it with toilet paper and found that it was rubbed more and more. .
Many people are concerned about the hygiene of the adult experience center.
An anonymous netizen asked Zhihu: Will the dolls in the Adult Experience Center get AIDS after being used?
Under this post, a user left a message saying that he had gone to a physical store to wear a condom, but the quality of the condom was not good. It was a miscellaneous brand and did not cover all of it. Finally, the condom was stuck inside.
Wu Yan, chief physician of the Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, told the Beijing News that from a hygiene perspective, the silicone dolls must be fully disinfected before the experience to ensure local cleanliness.
At the same time, it is necessary to apply lubricant as much as possible, because the material of the condom is rubber. If the lubrication is not sufficient, the silicone of the silicone doll is more likely to cause damage to the rubber condom. Not only is it easy to get sick, it is also easy to cause semen or prostatic fluid residues for later cleaning. Bring difficulties.
"Silicone dolls are made in simulation, there will be some wrinkles in the cavity, which is very laborious to clean. Maybe the previous customer used it and the merchant did not really clean it in place, so it will be provided to the next customer to experience, which will bring cross infection. Indirectly cause sexually transmitted diseases. From the perspective of health, the silicone doll experience hall does have some risks." Wu Yan pointed out.
So how are these adult experience halls cleaned and disinfected?
According to the merchants of the Horizon Adult Experience Center, after the customer's experience is over, they will take out the sex organs of the silicone dolls, then wash them with Fuyanjie, disinfectant, etc., then wring them with sponges, and finally put them in the disinfection cabinet for storage.
The swag space adult experience hall near Wangjing said that it is mainly cleaned with water, shower gel and disinfectant, and the whole process takes about half an hour.
But when a reporter from the Beijing News asked to visit the cleaning process, the other party refused without exception.
In addition, the reporter's unannounced visits also found that none of the aforementioned adult experience halls posted notices about hygiene in eye-catching locations. Customers entering the store are not required to wear masks, nor do they need to show health treasures and ID cards.
Regarding the health problems of the adult experience center, a reporter from the Beijing News consulted the staff of the Chaoyang District Health and Family Planning Supervision Office in Beijing as a citizen. The other party stated that if the adult experience center does not involve beauty projects, it does not need to apply for a health permit.
An advertisement posted by an adult experience center employee on WeChat Moments.
Grey area:
"There are currently no clear regulations to regulate"
Compared with health issues, the operating qualifications and legitimacy of adult experience centers are more concerned by the society.
The Beijing News reporter learned during an unannounced visit that the company behind the Horizon Adult Experience Hall is Beijing Anerran Trading Co., Ltd., which was established on September 1, 2020. Its business license shows that the company has nearly ten business scopes, such as Sales of daily chemical products, cleaning services, Internet information services, etc., but excluding business related to adult products.
“The Adult Experience Center is currently in a gray area and can only be done in a concealed manner. This is also one of the reasons why I stayed away from the busy business district when I chose the site.” According to Lin Yi, the owner of the Zero Point Adult Experience Center, they use silicone dolls as daily necessities. As a side ball, since the opening, there has not been a supervision department to check his store, but for the sake of safety, he did not dare to promote it on a large scale.
In fact, there are not a few merchants like Lin Yi.
For example, in the aforementioned swag space adult experience center, there is a "10-hour late night companion service", the experience time period is 23:00-9:00, and the group purchase price is 488 yuan.
The merchant clearly stated that “buying this product is equivalent to staying overnight.” However, the business license of the store shows that the business scope is health consultation, cultural and artistic exchange activities, rubber product sales, etc., and does not include hotel accommodation related businesses.
On the Internet, there are also netizens who associate adult experience centers with prostitution and whoring, and believe that they should be banned and banned because both provide paid sexual services.
Xu Guimin, an associate professor at the Law School of Zhengzhou University, said in an interview with a reporter from the Beijing News that according to Chinese law, prostitution and whoring emphasizes that it is a natural person with a living body, which must occur between two people, while silicone dolls are toys and do not belong to the legal meaning. As a natural person, it cannot be dealt with on this charge.
In addition, the reporter found out that the targets specified in Articles 66, 67, 68, and 69 of my country’s Public Security Administration Punishment Law (amended in 2012) are mainly natural persons, books, periodicals, For pictures, videos, audio-visual products, etc., whether silicone dolls belong to such natural persons or objects is currently not clearly defined.
Yang Liang, a lawyer at Beijing Dacheng (Shenzhen) Law Firm, believes that as a new thing, it remains to be seen whether the business scope of the adult experience center can be approved by the industrial and commercial department. There is indeed no clear prohibition law to regulate its behavior. If there is behavior that disturbs the people or affects others, the lessor of the venue can restrict its behavior in accordance with the lease contract and other agreements.
Regarding the "Shared Silicone Doll" adult experience hall, the staff of Suzhou Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau told the media that this kind of business premises is not within the scope of the issuance of health permits. "We only care if he has a business license. (This experience The country does not clearly stipulate whether the museum can be opened."
An official from the Xihu District Market Supervision and Administration Bureau of Hangzhou City told the Beijing News that a local TV station had previously reported related problems in the adult experience hall. According to the clues, they had checked the hotel room rented by the experience hall, but after arriving at the scene, The other party had already left, and they did not find out about their business activities. Later, they did not receive a report from the adult experience center. If it were not for the media exposure, they would not have known such a store.
The order status displayed by an experience hall in Shenzhen on a certain platform is booming.
Behind "sharing":
The issue of sexual needs requires social attention
Although burdened with legality disputes, health and regulatory issues, the presence of adult experience centers in many major cities means that there is a large market and demand.
"As long as hygiene is guaranteed and the experience is good, many single men around me can accept it." A man with experience intentions said that his original intention to go to the adult experience hall was simple, that is, to solve physical needs.
"The existence and experience of the adult experience center belong to the category of private life, and the supervisory department should manage it in a modest manner, rather than simply stifle it in the beginning." Professor of the School of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, vice president of the Chinese Society of Sex Education and Professional Committee of Sex Education Chairman Peng Xiaohui said that many young people are not married when they reach the legal marriage age due to financial reasons. There are also groups of migrant workers who are married but do not live with their spouses. What should they do if they have sexual needs?
This is a problem that society needs to face directly.
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According to the "Statistical Bulletin of China's 2019 National Economic and Social Development" published by the National Bureau of Statistics, as of the end of 2019, my country's total population has reached 1.4 billion, of which 30.49 million men are more than women.
Previously, demographers predicted that by 2020, at least 30 million single men in China will not be able to marry a wife.
Peng Xiaohui believes that the emergence of adult experience centers can eliminate sexual anxiety to a certain extent, reduce unwanted pregnancies, avoid sexually transmitted diseases, and even alleviate social problems such as non-marital sex, but the premise is to do good health protection and maintain privacy. The business site must be far away from a specific area, and it must not harm the rights of others, and it can be accepted voluntarily.
You know, silicone doll experience is only an auxiliary means to solve physiological needs, and cannot be used as the only or main interpersonal sex lifestyle.
"Sexual needs are the rigid needs of human society. Regardless of gender and age, a reasonable release of sexual needs is beneficial to physical and mental health. The silicone doll sharing experience hall can meet people's sexual needs to a certain extent. But what needs to be emphasized is, From the perspective of family harmony, due to its low cost, if men become dependent on it, it will not be conducive to the harmony of the husband and wife relationship." said Wu Yan, chief physician of the Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University.
Xu Guimin, an associate professor at the Law School of Zhengzhou University, believes that this new format will have an impact on Chinese traditional culture and social psychology. The times are advancing, and the boundaries between obscene products and sex toys are becoming blurred. Perhaps the behavior of these adult experience halls does not constitute now. Sexual crime does not mean that other related crimes will not occur. If it interferes with social management order, public health, etc., and causes harm to society, even if the needs of certain specific groups of people are solved, the relevant regulatory authorities should ban and punish them.
(Chen Bing and Lin Yi are pseudonyms in the text)
Beijing News Investigation Team