Meanwhile, on the opposite end of the spectrum from the 22-year old virgin auctioning off her sweet flower, comes the story of this 107-year old Chinese woman who has never consummated her love with another man and is now looking for Mr. Right. What took Wang Guiying so long to go in search of a mate?

Wang said she put off - and put off, and put off, and put off - getting hitched because, frankly, it looked like a miserable existence.

Born in southern Guizhou province the daughter of a salt merchant, Wang grew up watching her uncles beat their wives, the paper said.

"I often found my uncle's wife crying in the woodshed after an attack," Wang told the paper. "All the married people around there lived like that."

Chinese wives had few rights and were at the bottom of the totem poll. Many also had their feet bound - an agonizingly painful process that crippled women in order to make them more "dainty and marriageable."

Really makes you grateful for all those shitty dates and one-night stands being the worst you had to endure in the dating process, huh?