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What you should look for is someone you are compatible with. What people aspire for and what they end up understanding that they need, are two very different things.
What makes dating in Hong Kong particularly challenging? On the surface, Hong Kong is one the most international and cosmopolitan places in the world, but it is not progressive at all. Especially because a lot of women here suffer from incredible pressure attached to conventional and archaic values. And it sucks, it really does.
I went to a meeting with this girl in her mids and she wanted me to add BDSM as a main requirement. I told her that I had somebody in mind that was in that scene but I had to educate myself on that, which usually takes more time and money. The next day, she told me more about her past BDSM experiences with previous lovers, including specific preferences, and told me that the only thing that gets her off is to use scissors to drop blood from a guy. She also asked me to find someone to give her a stipend every month, like a sugar daddy.
I had to tell her that these things were not part of my services. She even offered to give me 10 percent of the money every month, which would have effectively made me a pimp. I put a lot of work into trying to understand dating among conventional, straight, and binary relationships, having also dated in this circle. I met with a lot of people to listen to their coming out stories.
My gay friends really helped me educate myself. Is there a dark side to matchmaking? People get cheated by so-called matchmakers and lose a lot of money all the time. By the tenth one, the matchmaker, who had some of the physical criteria the client was looking for, started dating him while still taking his money.
She broke up with him after three months. There need to be strict rules, and not dating your clients must be one of them. For me, there is much more to consider. Success rate is not the number of matches, those are just for big companies to inflate their numbers.
Success, for me, is educating people and helping them understand what they want, what they need, and how to get them in a relationship.
Those who say money cannot buy happiness have obviously not met the matchmaker who will help you find love for a fee of HK$ Dating and Marriage Services for Global Chinese Elite Single Professionals, I opened So Klose dating and matchmaking services in Hong Kong as I hope to.
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JJ Wu Chang helps crazy rich Asians find love. The job is as hard as it sounds. A dating app aimed at gay men, Scruff offers a huge pool of guys to choose from — you can check out users from around the world right down to their exact address. Pros: Scruff is location-specific, which means finding someone nearby — even right down to the same building — is a breeze.
Cons: The app seems to be focused on hookups rather than long-lasting relationships. You can check into locations on the app, which gives you a long list of people nearby. You then have the option to start a conversation. Cons: For those who put physical attraction first and foremost, Paktor might not be too helpful. If you say yes and they do the same, then you have seven days to start a conversation and make it happen. Pros: It weeds out the time-wasters. Cons: The gratification that comes from choosing from a huge pool of people is diminished. Also, coffee beans are used as currency on the app.
Some features, like finding out who your mutual friends are with a match, will cost you coffee beans. Thank you for the message.
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