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First sex doll hotel in China: What is it?However, this time the news is about its closing as the shop was shut down by local police, who have not provided the specific reason for the closure.

China's first hotel-like sex doll experience shop iile has once again become a popular topic following its opening two years ago to cater to the sexual needs of male workers at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province.

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Li Bo, the 34-year-old sex doll magnate, told media outlets that authorities in the city of Shenzhen, in southern China's Guangdong province, have yet to reveal why his two shops have been shut pending investigations.

Li claims to have opened China's first sex doll experience business—called Ai Ai Le—in Shenzhen's Longhua district in September 2018 after identifying a need among the area's mostly male factory workers.

Longhua is home to Foxconn's first assembly plant in China. The company is the world's largest electronics manufacturer, producing parts for household products such as the iPhone, iPad, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and Sony PlayStation.

The area's 120,000 single male factory workers outnumber their female colleagues 5 to 1, according to local media reports. Ai Ai Le gained a reputation among assembly line employees, and the silicon doll brothel was soon catering to some 70 clients a day, said Li.

In a letter addressed to the public and the government on Monday, Li said he had approached local authorities and relevant legal experts numerous times before officially opening the doors to his business nearly three years ago.

While prostitution is illegal in China and punishable by up to 10 years behind bars, he was assured time and time again that his sex doll hotel was not unlawful and could therefore operate in a legal gray area despite the taboo nature of the premises, which appears to challenge Chinese moral norms surrounding sex.

Li, whose prices range from 98 to 228 Chinese yuan ($15 to $35) per 60-minute session, says he has served "thousands" of clients between his two brothels, the second of which opened a few months ago in Longgang district—near the headquarters of Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei.

His business model was so successful that it attracted more than a dozen copycat competitors in Shenzhen, Li said, but Ai Ai Le remains the most popular.

In an interview with Hong Kong's Phoenix Television last week, the entrepreneur said early commentators categorized him as addressing the needs of the working class.

"It's not a working-class need. It's a male need," he said.

Li's silicon dolls come in various shapes and sizes. They are even heated to around 40 C for the comfort of his clientele.

Patrons are offered a pick of several rooms in the dimly lit hotels, ranging from suites themed as an office, hotel room, prison cell, hospital ward and classroom.

Police closed the sex doll business: For reasons that are ‘not convenient to explain’

The Longgang branch of sex doll brothel Ai Ai Le shuttered by police in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, on March 11, 2021. LI BO

On March 11, ille's flagship shop was closed by police in the Longgang district, who taped up the shop's entrance with two large strips of tape that said "closed."

"It was unpredicted and totally sudden. Customers ran away before they could even finish their business," Li Bo, the owner of ille, told media, explaining that he had not received any official notice nor been told the reason why or how long the closure would be.

Following a public request for a "reason" after iile's second shop was also closed by police that afternoon, a spokesperson from the Bantian police station replied saying it was "not clear." On Wednesday, the tape on the shops' doors was replaced with the same tape but with the addition of an official stamp from the police station. The police station's spokesperson issued another statement saying it was "not convenient to explain."

The closures quickly became a hot topic of discussion on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo. While some supported the decision, expressing concerns regarding hygiene, others said they found it odd how quickly the closures came and that there was no particular reason given by officials.

"It is odd, as described it was closed all of the sudden… this happens a lot when police conduct anti-porn efforts, but if it is really was that, then customers wouldn't get the chance to run away," Zhang, a law expert in Beijing, told the Global Times on Sunday.

"It is a gray zone in the industry. I think this case really shows there are some blank spaces on the law to deal with a newly emerged business as such," Ruan, a law expert in Beijing, told the Global Times on Sunday.

Being a business person who failed many times before opening the doll shop, the shop's owner Li Bo once told media his ambition was to become an expert for this particular type of business, and turn it into an industry in China that could lead the world.

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