The Randomness of Guangzhou Sex Shops

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One irony about Guangzhou’s old villages like shipaichiao and tangchuen is not their tradition but their modernity. Or quiet modernity as it might be known. In tiny corners of the city where elderly people drink tea and do morning exercise, there is always a sex shop around. These sex shops cater more to women than to men. Usually family business operated by elderly women looking after the grand kids.

If you walk through an alley and grandma watches a soap opera while five year old plays a computer game leaning against a glass case of Viagra. The first generation to grow up in the local sex shop will have a completely different view on life, and have a different reality for their parents. When they pass the college entrance exam they'll remember all the vibrators Mom and Dad sold for tuition money.

A distinction of the generational gaps in Chinese society is the attitudes towards human sexuality. While officially sex education is not taught in schools and producing or soliciting pornography is a felony, the post 90s generation is much more conscious than kids born in the 80s and 70s. There will be little innocence left for the 2000's.

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