I passed by this reference on EastSouthWestNorth yesterday but had no idea it was such a cause célèbre until I read Ryan’s posting on his great Suzhou blog.
A young English teacher out of Shanghai has been trysting with the ladies and then posting the rather intimate details on his blog under the unoriginal title “Sex in Shanghai.” (Ed. Note as of 8/29/06 the author of the SiS blog restricted his readers to those signed on to blogspot due to the amount of hatemail he received in the last 24 hours). I went over and checked it out (ahem) and I’ve got to tell you, I’ve seen better smut. That said, the guy is a cad who lacks the insight or irony (or frankly the double-X chromosome) that made Candace Bushnell or Jessica Cutler (in)famous. He’s not doing this to poke holes in the powerbrokers of New York or Washington, he’s doing this to say, “Hey, yo! Look at me! I’m not a virgin anymore, Mom!” It’s childish and despicable. It’s also, apparently, sufficient to make our young “Casanova on the Bund” the subject of a China-wide internet manhunt.
It seems that in addition to the