You are absolutely right. Any country you go to (apart from maybe Muslim countries, but I may be wrong - in fact I have no idea about those cultures) there will be prostitution, escorts, sex shops etc.

But in terms of regular culture in Taiwan, it is nowhere near as sex-obssessed as the West. Women are brought up with more morals - they have more moralistic ambitions in life, rather than just sleeping around everywhere.

I’m mixed race (my father is half German half English) and was raised in the UK, but that side of Taiwanese (I don’t know if it’s Asian culture in general) seems to have been passed on to me. It wasn’t really something I was heavily taught, however I have grown to hate the stereotypical part of Western culture where everybody thinks that Hollywood nudity, sleeping with whatever you can get your hands on and sexist media is OK.

I’m not a total stiff - I mean I didn’t wait until marriage to have sex. However, I did have a string of boyfriends, but I refused to engage in any sexual act with them because I was waiting for something long-term.

I found it, and I feel good about myself. I see friends over here in the UK everyday wishing that they hadn’t made so many mistakes in the past, and saved themselves a little bit mroe.

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About Taipei, having been there for a much shorter time than you’re there, I would still have to disagree. I think there’s no comparing China and Taiwan in this regard, and although Taiwan remains traditional in many way in comparison to the west, it has definitely gone through a revolution about sex as a right to both genders.

Is it all about her losing a lifetime of pleasurable sex with her husband, or is it more about losing the chance to have the child she’s always dreamed about? Her one child is a girl, and she has encephalitis. I can’t know her motives, of course, but I wonder if knowing that her family will never be more than that is what’s really driving her to break these social mores.

We’ve lived in Taipei for about a year now. If you just looked at the ads, the Betel nut girls, and the sex/lingerie shops, you’d think Taiwan is a ‘post-sexual revolution’ kind of society. But it’s not. Even among the young people we know, the girls wear granny panties and it’s still all about money, security, having a dream child/family. At least that’s the impression I get (may not be very accurate, of course). There’s always the foreign English teacher bar scene sex playground crowd, but I’d call that an exception.