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Swedes quash

lesbian town

rumour

October 9th,

2009

ANANOVA

 

Swedish tourism officials

are struggling to quash rumours

in China that the country is

home to a women-only town

where residents are

desperate for men.

Several Chinese media outlets

have published reports claiming

that 25,000 women live

together in Chako Paul City,

reports the Daily Telegraph.

Millions of Chinese men

have since searched the internet

for more details of the city,

said to have been founded

by a man-hating widow

in the forests of northern

weden in 1820.

According to the rumours,

the residents have turned to

same-sex relationships to

satisfy their desires,

and any men attempting

to gain entry risk being “

beaten half to death”

by the blonde sentries

at the gates.

The far-fetched fantasy

appears to have been swallowed

by so many Chinese men

that Swedish officials have

issued a formal denial that

the town exists,

or ever existed.

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“I have no idea where

something like this could

have come from,”

Claes Bertilson,

of the Scandinavian country’s Association of Local

Authorities and Regions,

told The Local newspaper.

“At 25,000 residents,

the town would be one of the

largest in northern Sweden,

and I find it hard to believe

that you could keep something

like that a secret for more

than 150 years.”

The mythical town has

reportedly been mentioned

in stories on the Xinhua

and Harbin News news

agencies and featured in a

segment produced by the

Shanghai Media Group.

It is unclear where

the story originated,

although officials have

suggested that a publicity

stunt by the northern

Swedish town of Palaja

in the 1980s may have

been lost in translation.

The male-dominated town

arranged for busloads of

women to be driven through

in an effort to attract more

female residents.

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