If you’re of that hallowed age where you get a third off of all rail travel, don’t take it for granted because there are people around the world who can’t afford to travel around their own country without a lot of financial help.
Take, for instance, 19-year-old Chinese backpacker Ju Peng. The student, from Shanghai, is so keen to travel around the western part of her country that she’s allegedly posted an advert on Chinese social network Weibo to find ‘temporary boyfriends’ who’ll help her fund her mission.
How will they help? Well, they’ll ‘fund my transport to their city and all my expenses while I am there and they need to be generous.’
To be eligible for this, applicants must be: ‘good looking, under 30, taller than 1.75 metres and, of course, rich.’
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What do they get in return for this? Well, a pretty good deal, it seems. ‘In return, they get a whole night with me, my undivided attention, and a chance to show themselves off in the company of a truly beautiful girl,’ she said.
Why on earth would she do this? Well, she’s previously seen a lot of eastern China thanks to the kindness of strangers putting her up for a night at a time in return for her company. And now she wants to see the rest of China, but doesn’t have the money to do it.
Some people are pretty shocked by her entrepreneurialism, according to the International Business Times: ‘If she was taking cash we’d all know what to call her. This is a disgusting way to carry on,’ said Weibo user Hsin Tao.
Even if she is a sex worker, it’s totally up to her, and besides, she insists: ‘It is sort of like hitch-hiking. It’s nothing to be ashamed of.’
And we sort of agree… It’s up to her, right? Plus, the way rich blokes like to show off about arm-candy, we guess she might see more of the inside of VIP areas of soulless clubs than ceilings of soulless hotel rooms.
The one thing we’d recommend though, is that on top of all the other criteria, she ask for a criminal check on each of the applicants. If they’re rich enough to pay for her travel and her accommodation and dinner and drinks and all the rest, they’ll be able to fork out a bit extra to prove they’re not actually dangerous lunatics.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.