"Baby, baby." The voice of the "boyfriend for a day" rented by female college student Ah Xia came from the WeChat dialog box.
The other party lowered his voice and tried to persuade Ah Xia to pay more for the duration of time, "Aren't you going to talk to me for a while? Now the time has exceeded one minute."
A reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily noticed that "a day male (female) friends" emotional experience services are quietly appearing among young people.
Searching for "boyfriend in a day" on some video platforms can find experience videos of boyfriends rented by a blogger in an offline store for one or more hours.
Searching for "boyfriend in one day" on an e-commerce platform will bring up the link of the same "boyfriend in one day" experience. The price ranges from a "blind box" of tens of yuan for 1 hour to a "chief" of 190 yuan for 30 minutes .
Some shops even introduce the "One Day Boyfriend" service as a "best gift" for girlfriends on their birthdays.
This new type of experiential service is walking on the edge of the law.
All services are clearly priced, 100 yuan each time holding hands
In April last year, Ah Xia posted a video of a blogger renting a "boyfriend for a day" on Weibo. Out of curiosity, he bought the same service on Taobao and chose a 10-minute text and voice online service.
During these 10 minutes, Axia felt that the other party's reply was like a robot, so he gave a "medium comment" casually.
In order to redeem this "intermediate review", the store subsequently "reissued" her a second "boyfriend".
The reporter noticed that on a social platform, many bloggers shared the live experience of "boyfriend in a day".
One of the bloggers named "Zhou Fugui" found a Chinese-Thai boyfriend in a physical store in Shanghai by drawing a blind box-600 yuan for two hours.
In the meantime, this "boyfriend" accompanies the blogger to drink milk tea, eat snacks, and take photos, but refuses to hold hands, kiss, or feed.
The full name of this store on Station B is "Shanghai Yuedao Male Deacon Board Game Experience Store".
On a consumer review app, the shop is called an online celebrity shop.
The most frequently asked questions by netizens include whether they can allow the younger brother to listen to the graduation defense, whether he can accompany him to Disney, write essays, play games, and whether he can take him out for dinner.
Not long ago, Senna received a birthday gift from a girlfriend—a voucher for offline "boyfriend in one day" service.
On the day of the date, a handsome boy appeared in front of her at the pre-appointed coffee shop.
When Senna wanted to hold hands with him, the other party smiled and said, "There is an additional charge for holding hands, 100 yuan a time."
The reporter noticed that the highest number of videos posted on a video platform with the theme of "boyfriend in a day" was 2.08 million views.
In an online shop that showed that the place of shipment was Shijiazhuang, Hebei, the entry for "a video platform for a boyfriend for one day" was disguised as "a shop". The monthly sales volume of this shop is more than 800 copies, and the baby rating reaches 2475. strip.
Many buyers also posted photos of different boyfriends, recommending them to other buyers, "I have unknowingly let him stay with me for a week, and plan to give him another monthly subscription."
"Boyfriend" and the shop are divided into five to five
Atang, 22, said he is currently studying as a chef at a vocational college in Shanxi.
He is the "chief" of a "boyfriend one day" shop, that is, the highest-level "boyfriend" waiter.
The reporter noticed that the "boyfriend" level settings, operating modes, and charging standards of various stores are not much different.
As far as Atang’s store is concerned, the customer service will provide customers with several different options such as "blind box", "gold medal", "town shop" and "chief". The prices increase in order and can provide services such as day, week, and month.
According to Atang, he and the shop are divided into five to five proportions, "For example, for a 100 yuan order, I can get 50 yuan, customer service will get 10 yuan, and 40 yuan will go to the store." If the customer agrees, "renew the order." ", then the cost of renewing the order is divided between Atang and the shop on a six-fourth basis.
In addition, if the customer wants to see the photos and listen to the voice for selection before placing the order, there will be an extra charge of 3 yuan per person per person.
The shop also provides night service from 24 o'clock at night to 7 o'clock the next day, and the price is 1.5 times the daily price.
"Boyfriends" often ask customers for red envelopes after the service is over.
Atang told reporters that he learned about this new part-time job model from a short video platform, "It is mainly for making money and paying tuition. The school teaches us to cook steak. The first work is provided by the school. If you want to practice more, then To make one, you have to pay for it yourself."
Awan, the "boyfriend for a day" in another shop, just started doing this part-time job. He claims to be a sophomore at Moscow State University. He is 21 years old and is from Hebei.
When he came home from the holiday, he was recommended to work part-time by a friend because of his excellent voice.
These stores will comprehensively evaluate the “boyfriend” based on the number of orders received, monthly renewal orders, voice, personality, appearance, service attitude, and customer feedback.
"In the beginning, we started from the lowest level. If the monthly order quantity is very small and the renewal rate is low, we will be fired." Awan said.
The identity of the "boyfriend" is a mystery, and the service walks in a gray area
Atang told reporters that the part-time "boyfriend" has a work group, and everyone often shares some interesting things they encounter in work and study in the group. "Many people are college students who are studying."
However, the real identity of the "boyfriend" and the real photo are both suspicious.
According to the regulations of the "Boyfriend One Day" shop, applicants are not allowed to use online pictures to impersonate their real photos.
But Atang told reporters: "I have seen photos of 3 people in our group on different social platforms, and if your photo shop feels that it is not suitable, you will be asked to edit pictures or make a beautification."
Some "boyfriends" reflect that the needs of "customers" are bizarre.
For example, Awan received a "strange" order-a customer wanted to experience the service "being scolded"; Atang met a customer who claimed to be depressed, and the other party sent Atang a medical certificate of his illness. , And kept telling Atang about his tragic experience for an hour and a half.
In addition, there will be female customers and "boyfriends" who develop into a romantic relationship. After the relationship breaks up, the woman complains to the store.
Xi Peizhi, a teacher of Shanghai University of Political Science and Law and deputy secretary-general of the Shanghai Law Society's Minor Law Research Association, believes that the act of renting a "male (female) friend for a day" is a contract similar to a labor contract between the two parties from a legal perspective. , The renter pays remuneration, and the "boyfriend" or "girlfriend" provides normal services such as chatting and shopping.
But it should be noted that the service content "must comply with the law and not violate public order and good customs."
"Due to the particularity of the relationship between male and female friends, illegal or even criminal acts are very easy to occur in some specific scenarios." Xi Peizhi said that in this process, the platform, as a medium for providing services, should strictly review the content of the service. If there are illegal or criminal acts, the platform side needs to bear the responsibility for supervision.
Therefore, from the perspective of avoiding risks and assuming social responsibility, platforms should prohibit such services with special personal relationships.
"This type of behavior is on the verge of illegality, and there is a high risk of infringement of their own rights and interests. It is recommended that young people face up to and cherish their feelings, and avoid their own infringement." Xi Peizhi said.
Tong Weiyao, counselor of the Merchant Marine School of Shanghai Maritime University, told reporters that at present, individual female college students renting "boyfriends for one day" are firstly due to the immature thinking of the students, and they are fresh and exciting due to the influence of the external bad social atmosphere; the other may be young people. The student's original family and other reasons cause emotional loss, and hope to find emotional dependence through a "boyfriend for a day".
He believes: “Schools should enhance students’ legal awareness, strengthen and improve college students’ ideological and political education, and help students improve their self-protection awareness and the ability to distinguish right from wrong.” During the growth stage of adolescents, both schools and families should conduct “emotional education” on students. ", let them understand what should be done and what should not be done.
The reporter learned that the practice of "boyfriend in one day" cannot be controlled by the penal provisions of Article 66 of the "Public Security Administration Penalty Law" regarding prostitution and prostitution at the legal level.
The relevant staff of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau told reporters that there are two "key points" in the determination of the aforementioned facts-one is the occurrence of money transactions; the other is the occurrence of improper sexual relations.
Although "boyfriend one day" has obvious money transactions, as long as there is no evidence to prove that they have a relationship, they cannot be managed and "be in a gray area."
China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Wang Yejie, intern Yang Fan Zeng Qingyi Source: China Youth Daily