I do actually know of a 21 year old student who is doing very well because she has been sponsored by a 60 year old Englishman over the last year. She has no family and a very tragic story about what happened to them. He gets what he want but so does she, ranging from school books to laptops.

Well Terry, as you say, he is lying to his wife about it. He's made the student into a prostitute. If he REALLY cared about her he'd help her without fucking her, plain and simple. He's acting out of pure selfishness, and buying her stuff to assuage his guilty conscience. Shit, Chinese women look 18 when they're almost 30, some of them. What is the big deal with having sex with someone who is actually so young, when you can have an extremely fit and sex woman who has already graduated? Unless of course one can't because they don't want some old curmudgeon. In the example you gave, as is often the case, the poor students are the easiest to take advantage of. And what do her classmates think about her having the new computer and other luxuries?

That man is just a selfish prick. I am 100% certain the girl would prefer to get the gifts without having to have sex with him, and it seems that the gifts aren't exactly hurting his bank account. He made himself a cheap prostitute out of one of his students. Hooray!

These kinds of foreign men give all teachers a bad reputation in Asia, and are one of the reasons our salaries are lower than they should be. We all have heard stories from just about everyplace of employment in China about some foreign man sleeping with students, and many of those are horror stories.