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Fifi has a boyfriend, and she talks incessantly about him, how he lives in Vancouver and how they're just perfect for each other. They've dated for nearly eight months. She pulls out a photo-booth sticker they made in January when he last came to visit. He's from a posh Taiwan family and sometimes Fifi thinks they're not too happy that their college-student son is dating a high-school graduate who likes to wear teetering stilettos and pink lipstick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...Fifi doesn't feel very young. She is, after all, already 22 years old. In fact, Fifi's thinking of changing her English name to Cheyenne, because a Western friend told her the name fits someone mature, mysterious and chic. And Fifi wants to be all three. An old boyfriend gave her the name "Fifi." But that was back when she wasn't fully formed, when she hadn't developed the "Cheyenne-ness" of her character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

Sometimes Fifi feels like her current boyfriend thinks of her more as a Fifi than a Cheyenne. He adores her and that's a little dangerous and a little boring. At the beginning of the year, she met someone who made her feel like a Cheyenne, and she was briefly distracted. They had a passionate affair and equally passionate fights. When her boyfriend found out, he was patient. He said he understood, because Fifi is a very sexy woman, one of the hottest babies in Shanghai. He understood that men would hit on her constantly. But he also said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...going to school like usual but I was bored and had no money. My boyfriend, the guy I lost my virginity to, had just broken up with me. I wouldn't do enjo kosai if I had a boyfriend. Losing him was really rough. So I just left a message about myself on a cyber message board and chose a sex partner from the guys who wrote back. It wasn't hard. Guys who want sex and dinner, guys who just want sex, guys who just want dinner - they're all out there. They leave messages like, "Any girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: She's Only a Little Schoolgirl | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...song see any point in being political. Few care to lobby for changes in the rape law, which doesn't cover transsexuals, or for the right to marry. Najaira Lee, a 27-year-old makeup artist, says her biggest concerns are private: whether or not she should tell her boyfriend, an expatriate living in Bangkok, that she used to have a man's body. "Do you think I should?" she asks anxiously. She's not sure her boyfriend would accept her for what she is - and what she was. When she's told men in her past, they've usually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boys Will Be Girls | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

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