Traders blatantly sell banned sex toys and medicines
Issue date: 22/05/08
Sex toys and sex enhancement medicines are available in Vietnam markets along the Vietnam-China border and over the Internet.
The Jinming Border Trade Market in Hekou (China), which borders Vietnam’s northwestern Lao Cai Province, is a big market for sex toys.
Its first floor, with an area of some 2,000 square meters, has more than 200 booths selling mainly sex toys and sex medicines – items outlawed in Vietnam.
Border markets
The booths display many kinds of nude rubber dolls in different postures.
As well as the exhibits, there are sex toys and sex organs in boxes – or hung outside to attract customers – as well as sex-supporting medicines.
Sinh, one of the shop owners, displays a series of items for your correspondent to choose from.
“Many people buy this,” he says, inserting batteries into a fake penis.
Then, he shows four different kinds of Viagra worth between 50 and 300 renminbis (VND90,000-VND600,000) which he says are not very good because they are counterfeit.
He advertises “Spring love,” a sex-supporting medicine he says is effective because “this special medicine contains the strength of the Chinese.”
Sinh says he supplies Viagra and “Spring love” to traders in Vietnam.
Compared with the Jinming Market, the Tan Thanh Border Economic Zone in the northeastern border Lang Son Province, which trades similar goods, has less hustle and bustle.
Entering a shop for electric appliances, we ask for sex toys for women.
The shop owner shows some suitable products as well as medicine for men with weak sex capability.
Quang, a salesman, presented a vial of brownish medicine worth VND500,000 (US$31.25).
This medicine, he says, has an immediate effect on women.
It’s supplied in large quantities to traders at Hang Chieu Market, a well-known sex toy-selling area in the old quarter of Hanoi.
Source : http://www.thanhniennews.com