Grannies of the night

I found a house for sale in the middle of Hsinchu, an old building from the Japanese period. As I was standing there looking at it a woman came up to me and made the internationally recognizable hand gesture for “having sex.” I was a bit shocked. I’ve not seen anything like that in Taiwan so far. But her “only 500 NT” confirmed that I hadn’t misunderstood. What amazed me was how old she was. She must have been in her late 50s, at least. I looked around on the street and suddenly I discovered lots of women just standing there waiting for something. And they were all just as old. Not like someone’s mother but like someone’s grandmother.

I guess there may be a lot of granny fetishists in Taiwan, but somehow I doubt it. Their main clients are surely men of more or less their own age. This confirms a theory I have. Most married men don’t actually want to be unfaithful to their wives. They just want their sex to be easy. They want sex without connection to all those everyday issues of contention which make up a marriage — who’s doing the dishes, who’s taking out the garbage, who’s paying the bills … Paying for sex with a woman who is just like your wife gets you around these hurdles. It’s sex like you remember it, an old person’s reenactment of the days when you and your wife first met.

Btw, there is a very active “Sex Workers’ Union” in Taiwan. Prostitution is officially illegal and the prostitutes are getting a lot of hassle from the police.