China’s first sex doll hotel sealed off by police with customers still inside

A man who opened two sex doll brothels catering to migrant workers in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen says he has been forced to close them.

Li Bo described his venture as China’s "first life-sized sex doll hotel". Customers paid 188 yuan (just over £20) for an hour of no-holds-barred fun with the silicone hostesses.

The first of his two sex doll hotels opened for business in 2018. It was sited in Shenzhen’s Longhua district, which is home to several major multinational companies including the huge, super-secretive Foxconn plant – known for producing the key components for many Apple products including the iPhone.

Li, 34, said he opened his hotel after reading that there were over 120,000 men working in the district’s high-pressure factories with few if any, opportunities to relieve their sexual desires.

It was so successful that he opened a second branch around half an hour’s drive away in Bantian District last December.

But both were forced to close on Thursday, March 11.

Sex dolls, both privately-owned and rented, have become increasingly popular in China over the past year, as the coronavirus pandemic has made more conventional intimacy impossible.

Most of China’s cities have at least one sex doll brothel, and according to Chinese media, they’re doing a roaring trade.

Their success has put them on the government’s radar, and the authorities have started asking questions about the sex hotels’ cleanliness, and the possibility of STDs being transmitted from man to man via poorly-maintained sex dolls.

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But Li insists that while he has seen less well-run operations closed down, his establishments have the highest standards of hygiene, and are scrupulous about sanitation as well as customers’ privacy.

He’s baffled as to why his business has been closed.

"There was no explanation or legal documentation from the authorities," he said, adding that at least one customer was making use of the facilities when a squad of local police entered the building and told staff to shut their operation down.

He went on: "There was no explanation or legal documentation from the authorities."

Li added that some of his regular clients have already been calling to ask when the sex doll hotel might be reopening.

He says that one man asked: "Is playing with dolls illegal now?"

Speaking to Chinese news site Sixth Tone, Shanghai-based lawyer Ding Jinkun said there was no specific legislation in Chinese law covering sex doll hotels.

"The legal problems such stores might face could be related to hygiene or unlawful business operations," he said.

"But currently in China, there isn’t a legislative ban on this form of business."

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