Boys flocking to be 'ducks' for China's bored housewives

Near the restaurant where Mao Zedong and President Nixon shared roast duck during the heady days of 'ping pong diplomacy', Beijing's new ducks strut their stuff at a popular nightspot.

They are easy to pick out: in tight clothes and sunglasses, the ducks sway to the beat and scan the seething dance floor. Boys flocking to be 'ducks' for China's bored housewives The commoditisation of sex is nothing new in China, where social inequalities and consumerism have created desires only sex work can satisfy - both for the prostitutes and for their customers, who have the cash for illicit pleasures.