I am taking a job in Chongqing, where I've been told that the prettiest girls in China come from. Now, me going to China has to do with living in a new place and experiencing a new culture, which may or may not involve dating local girls; this is just as it would be were I to move to another city in the US.

However, my father told me that a co-worker of his, who worked in a coal mining town in China (where exactly I do not know), was told that having sexual contact with the local girls could result in a lengthy prison term! This sounded frankly preposterous, a scare tactic or some such.

I was wondering whether anyone else had heard any such restrictions.