I am not just talking about shagging. For the majority of men, if they want a Chinese girlfriend they must spend huge amounts of cash on her. A Chinese wife? You MUST buy a house and car for her as a condition of marriage. If that is not high priced prostitution I don't know what is. The problem is getting worse. Just look at any Chinese TV dating show to see how materialistic the women have become. "If You Are The One" is one of the worst. Why would any man even bother with those hideous entitled women? Pattaya is the only way to go. Just shag, or have short term girlfriends. Of all the married ex-pats I know in China only about 20 per cent of them rent. The rest of them bought houses or have mortgages. Why? The wife demanded that they did. Some of them even brag about the "free sex" they get, but they don't even have freedom. Having to be home by 7 pm every night is not "freedom". Having to work all the time because the wife wants more clothes, shoes, jewelery, that is not freedom. I know men in their fifties in China who are working 7 days a week to pay off the bigger apartment they were pressured to buy. Whilst the 50 year olds in Pattaya are just chilling out and have a different sexy GF each month for a relative pittance. Who has a better deal? It's a no-brainer!