CHINA’S MISTRESS-DISPELLERS

How the economic boom and deep gender inequality have created a

new industry.

Yu, a gentle-looking man in his early forties, with the placid demeanor of a yoga instructor, works as a mistress dispeller, a job that barely existed a decade ago but is becoming common in major Chinese cities. His clients are women who hope to preserve their marriages by fending off what is known in Chinese as a xiao san, or “Little Third”—a term that encompasses everything from a partner in a casual affair to a long-term “kept woman.”

 

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/26/chinas-mistress-dispellersnew industry.

I can see a market....