Dec.12 - In a recent survey on Chinese people's attitudes towards relationships, a surprising 50% of respondents in Shenzhen found "one-night stands" acceptable.

 

Nanfang Daily reports Monday that besides investigating people's thoughts on traditional terms like "blind date," the survey, carried out by Trendmedia and Horizonkey, emphasized the acceptability of some "new-fashioned relationships and ideas" among Chinese urbanites, including "online love," "gays and lesbians," "lightning marriages," "one-night stands," "multiple sex partners," "extramarital affairs and "DINKs (double incomes, no kids)." More than 1,400 people from various ages from 10 major cities participated in the survey.

 

The results demonstrate that female respondents were less open than male respondents to most "fashionable" ideas about love and marriage except in the categories of "bachelordom" and "DINKs." More male respondents had an open attitude toward "one-night stands," "multiple sex partners" and "extramarital affairs."

 

Advocating "blind dates" and "love at old age," people born in the 1950s showed the least tolerance toward fashionable relationships. In contrast, correspondents born after 1980 have a much higher interest in "gays and lesbians," "lightning marriages," "online love" and "premarital cohabitation."

 

On a city-wide scale, Shanghai correspondents were more open to new ideas compared with those living in Beijing. But they were all beaten by people in Shenzhen, a city full of immigrants in southern China's Guangdong province, where over half of the interviewees could accept and would try "one-night stands."

 

Experts have attributed Shenzhen people's "thirst for passion" to the great stress they feel when they struggle to find love in the city. Pressures drive them to irregular ways of dealing with relationships.