Betal-nut beauties
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Dressed minimally and sexily the young women who employed in road side kiosks selling betal nuts return to the news periodically. Some Chinese academics and scholars view their use of their sexual attractiveness more pragmatically than you'd expect.
Given that we'll never live in an ideal world should they be poorer but un-objectified or take the system for all they can get?
"The betel-nut beauties have every right to dress freely, and deserve to have the chance to actively strive for economic gain. They affirm the attractiveness of their own bodies and make an honest living, and what's wrong with that?" said Ho, coordinator of the Center for the Study of Sexuality at National Central University.
According to Ho, who has studied the betel-nut beauty phenomena for years, betel-nut girls are mostly from working class backgrounds and their outfits are merely a way of earning more money. Society should stop judging them from a patriarchal point of view.
Betel-nut girls focus of exhibit