A prostitute waits for customers at a popular bar district in Shanghai.
In 2001 police found four steel cabinets in the home of Hainan province’s textile industry bureau chief, Li Qingpu, containing the records of his sexual conquests. Inside were sex tapes, photos and 95 journals that recorded the lurid details of encounters with 194 women between 1980 to 2001. These partners included his staffers, mistresses and prostitutes, whom he apparently visited during working hours in the company car. Tucked inside the journals were 472 hairs, plucked from each woman he slept with. He wrote candidly inside one of his notebooks that this was his “track record of conquering virgins.” He was sentenced to 20 years in jail for accepting bribes and having sex with underage girls.
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