Technically, prostitution is illegal in China, but prostitution is also ubiquitous in China. You can't walk down the streets without spotting a brothel every two seconds. Westerners may not be able to identify those establishment. They are often disguised as spa, hair salon, massage parlor, hotel, etc.

Our German boyfriend, being a foreigner to China, is very curious, because, apparently, in Germany there are a lot of brothels also but they are legal and they are inside a red light district. But China is very different compared to Germany, and he has never been to a brothel in China. Being the welcoming hosts and accommodating guide to our country, we decided to take him to one of those establishments to showcase the most exquisite and forbidden taste of China.

While I have always known that prostitution is everywhere in China, actually finding the place, and knowing who to ask, was actually a bit challenging. My roommate and I accompanied him to a local spring resort. Because we didn't want to waste time if it turned out to be a legitimate business, we asked the waitress at the front desk whether there were "special service for a foreign man like him." My roommate asked while pointing toward the tall German guy standing next to me, and my stomach churned as the waitress looked over to our direction with a contemptuous smirk.

Our boyfriend wasn't actually very tall, for a German at least. He's only six feet tall. But in China he would be considered tall.

It turned out that the spring resort was a legitimate business. The waitress said they didn't offer “that kind of service.” It could be that they actually just didn't offer the service to foreigners, and since she said no, we escorted our boyfriend out of the reception lobby with consternation on our faces.

We hailed down a taxi.

While we were sitting in the taxi, I started chatting with the taxi driver, and I pointed to the foreigner in the backseat and said, "This is our friend from Germany. He's coming to visit China and he would like to experience the Chinese hospitality service, the famous Dong-Guan style. Do you happen to know where those venues are at nowadays?"

The taxi driver actually knew and told us that he got commissions from the venue whenever he brings some customers there. So while driving he started calling some numbers and talked to someone on the phone. My roommate and I were excited and we thanked him profusely. While he was talking, he actually said, "I'm bringing three people over. Two prostitutes, Chinese, and their john, a foreigner,"

I felt exasperated that he thought we were prostitutes, and I looked over at my roommate and she grinned at me and for the rest of the trip we remained awkwardly silent.

After about twenty minutes we arrived at a five star hotel that was still under construction. There were no lights on the outside. Three men in black t-shirts came over to our taxi. We all got out of the taxi and was led into the hotel. It was a little scary, but both my roommate and I were local Shanghai-ese, and also we had a "laowai" with us, so we were pretty sure they weren't going to pull any shenanigans.

Gold-colored double doors opened which led us to the exorbitant lobby with crystalline lights that cast effulgent shadows in the lobby of the hotel. Our boyfriend was dazzled, and we were happy that he was impressed. My roommate and I walked by his sides, sandwiching him in our middle. I had always heard about those shady establishments, where the exterior is a shabby facade, and the interior is an ornately decorated den of sin and depravity, but it was my first time to actually experience the thrill of something so decadent.

We were led into a well lit room with a king sized bed in the center. Our boyfriend sat in the middle, and a man called in about 20 Chinese girls, aged from 18 to 25, all wearing a dark blue uniform mini-qipao dress. Standing in a straight line, facing the beige coach on which we were sitting, they bowed their heads to an 90 degree angle and greeted in unison: "Welcome, customer."

Our boyfriend's lips parted and his eyes got big. The girls looked up and scanned at me and my roommate with a quizzical expression on their faces.

Then from left to right, the girls started introducing themselves. They referred to themselves by their numbers, their price, and their provinces of origin. It went something like this: "I'm number 98. My prize is 969 RMB. From Xi'an." (969 RMB is about 100 dollars.). 98 was the girl our German chose eventually.

After all of them introduced themselves, we as customers can ask them some questions to them, interact with them a bit, walk around and examine them. Our boyfriend did that. We remained seated and chattered among ourselves. It was funny because he actually asked us which one was the prettiest, because he was overwhelmed by the number of girls present. I laughed and said, they all look very pretty to me. My roommate reiterated what I said. Some of the girls standing glanced at each other, like they had a big question mark hanging on their heads.

Then the guy standing at the door said, "If you can't find one that you like, there's more girls." And just like that, the 20 girls exited the door and then another 20 girls rotated into the room, lined up in front of the beige coach, bowed 90 degrees, and greeted us in exactly the same manner. Then another 20 girls came in, bowed 90 degrees, and greeted us. Our German asked how many girls there are working at the venue presently. The guy said, right now there are only about 100. "If you come in on weekends, there are more."

He walked around, examined all the girls, and then called back 98 and another girl. He asked them what kind of service they offered. So 98 charged 969 and her service included—and this she said with a bright smile on her face: "bareback blowjob, cum swallowing, vaginal penetration, anal penetration, multiple cum shots, anal licking, whole body licking, feet worship." The girl from Guandong charged 1224 RMB (about 150 USD), and she repeated the exact same thing. We asked why the one from Guandong charged more than the one from Xi'an. The man explained that the Guangdong girl, standing at 5 feet 9, was a former model and some regional beauty pageant.

Our boyfriend dithered on which to pick. The man at the door suggested, "If you can't decide you can take them both, and then glanced at me and my roommate." Then former beauty pageant said, "My honorable sir, I will give you the best service I possibly can." And with that final line, the German decided to take her.

He actually asked both me and my roommate to stay, but we were both a little hungry and decided to grab some snacks in the lobby.

About 20 minutes into the service, the man came out and told us that your foreigner friend want you two to go in.

We went back in and find him arguing with the girl. His Chinese is good, but not quite fluent. We asked what was going on. It turned on the girl did not like being spanked. Our boyfriend apparently enjoyed spanking a little too much and because of that, the girl became unhappy, so he decided to let her go. But then she explained to us that, since she already got naked, and started giving him service, he still had to pay her. The man also came in and we haggled with them, so we only paid her a quarter of what she was supposed to earn. Then our boyfriend told the man to get 98 back in.

We went back to the lobby and each took one morning after pill. The day prior, we both had unprotected sex with our German boyfriend and, while at some point in the future, if this relationship continues, we probably will both want to be pregnant with his baby, right now, we still weren't ready. While we were waiting at the lobby, we spotted a Chinese girl whose beauty we felt surpassed all of the other girls, including me and my roommate. She looked like an actress from a TV drama.

I said to my roommate that maybe "next life I will be a man so I can make love to those beautiful girls just like Xiao De." My roommate reminded me that "you are already making love to me." We referred our boyfriend as "Xiao De", which transcribed literally means "Little Ger-". In Chinese, Germany is spelled using two Chinese characters "De" and "Guo" which mean morality and country, respectively. I had an American boyfriend before, and I called him "Lao Mei", which literally means "old beauty", since he was much older than me. Xiao De looked like a 18 year old despite of being already 23.

After approximately two hours, we came back to pick up our Xiao De, and we asked him how it went. Are you satisfied with her service? Was she good?

He said that not only was he satisfied, he had her cell phone number and he was going to go out with her the next day. We were curious and dug for more information. It turned out that number 98, who has given our her real name to Xiao De, was a serious masochist and loved being spanked, whipped, and tortured. In addition to the regular service Xiao De received, she also let him dominate her. He spanked her pussy until it was red and raw before fucking her. He also twisted her nipples and spanked her really hard.

We asked him what was the most memorable part besides the BDSM part, and he said he really enjoyed the ass-licking. He sat on her face and let her lick his ass for nearly half an hour.

We peppered, what else did you guys do? He said “she enjoyed being collared and leashed. So next time when we meet she would bring her own dog collar and leash for me to play with.”

We asked him when they were meeting, and he said he will call her once we get home.

While we were happy for Xiao De, and the potential that we might be adding another sister, a total pain slut, to his harem, we also warned him to be careful of her, because she is a prostitute, and she might be doing all this “because she thinks you are a rich, gullible foreigner.”

It's difficult to not admit that both me and my roommate were jealous of the fact that another girl was going to join us, but we also understood that Xiao De was our dominant, and he had the freedom to do whatever he wished. Besides, while me and my roommate enjoyed the humiliation part of this fetish, neither of us enjoyed the pain. Having a pain slut means Xiao De can have someone to take on the more painful tasks, like spanking, like whipping, and whatever else he wanted.

Xiao De also said: “She asked about the two of you.”

“What did you tell her?”

“I told her you both are my girlfriends.”

“What did she say about that?”

“She was quite surprised and said she hasn’t seen many women coming to their venue.”

“I told her that I will tell her more about you two when we meet outside of work.”

We warned him that since she was a prostitute, if she were to join our poly household, she needed to be tested regularly and she must stop working at the venue. And lest that he fell in love with that prostitute, both my roommate and I reassured him that, "whatever that prostitute did for you, we are willing to do the same as well, and we will never charge you a single dime. We will always be your free prostitutes."

The next day Xiao De met with number 98. She gave out her real name to him, showed him her government issued ID card, and brought him lunch, with her own money. Then they went into a hotel. She brought her own dog collar and leash, and asked Xiao De to dominate her. She said that she enjoys being hogtied and suspended, and wants to be suspended, like they do in Japanese BDSM. Our boyfriend promised that if she join our poly household, he would satisfy her fantasies, but on the condition that she stop working at the venue. After she had sex with Xiao De, she went back to work. Xiao De said he got the impression that she actually enjoyed working as a prostitute. We decided that if she were join our poly household, first of all, she has to be the bottom bitch. Both me and my roommate can dominate her. And second, if she wants to be a prostitute, we could pimp her out to other foreigners and make her only serve foreign men who enjoy BDSM. Since we are not interested in making money, she can keep all the money she makes. But she must be available to be our bottom bitch and serve both me and my roommate as her mistresses.

From further conversation with her it seems at where she is working now, the owners take 50 percent of what she makes, and she has to have sex with the boss whenever he wants to, without the right to refuse. Also it seems that she does get bullied a lot at her workplace. She said she is frequently asked to perform janitorial duties, such as mopping the floor, taking out the trash, and she gets beatings from other girls on a regular basis. We felt she might just be the masochist that our poly household needs.

But I do dislike the fact that she is a prostitute, and came from a very backward province in China. I think Xiao De deserves better than those cheap peasant whores, and my roommate. But anyway, we will see what happens.

I’m just happy that Xiao De is enjoying himself and I will continue to make sure he gets the best out of his expat life in Shanghai, China.