In 1949, a large number of Kuomintang troops retreated to Taiwan. When men who come to Taiwan alone and have no relatives and are sexually aroused can't stand it, they harass women of good families or prostitutes. In 1952, Chiang Ching-kuo, "director of the General Political Operations Department," approved the establishment of the "Special Tea Room in the Army," which is called the "Paradise in the Army," which is, to put it bluntly, a brothel in the military.
The most enduring paradise in the military is the outer island, which is the most popular, because there are few women on the outer islands, military tasks are frequent, and there is a large demand for officers and soldiers, so it is "needed" to support "supply", and the park has always been very prosperous.
The outer island's most famous "831" paradise is built on a steep hillside. In the distance, it is a rectangular courtyard of deep houses, which has a little taste of luxury villas on Yangming Mountain. Surrounded by green trees and clusters of roses at the door, it seems that Jiangnan grass is long and herds of warblers are flying wildly. Enter the living room to worship the god Fude Zhengzheng, incense and fire, the main wall of the hall, hung with jade photos of prostitutes, and numbered, left and right back two rows of small rooms are "reception room".
In addition to the "Rules of Entertainment" hanging on the wall, which require officers and soldiers to abide by them, the most outrageous gimmick is the "fun" of the couplet. Like this couplet, the right link is "big husband serving the battlefield", the left link is "little girl dedicated to the country", and the horizontal batch "serves the three armed forces". The reception room is one per person, and the front of the room is equipped with a numbered green light, which indicates that the guests are being received, and the door must be closed, and there is a strange sound inside, and vice versa.
In the small cave room, it is about a double bed, summer straw mat, winter bedding; there are two pillows at the head of the bed, there is a small wardrobe next to it, a coffee table, a pile of scattered supplies, and photos and posters of Chinese and foreign stars are pasted on the wall. The small lights in the house are red and dark, generally speaking, the lights in the house are bright and the head lights outside the room are also on, the lights do not want to be too bright, take its dim red, the miss looks more beautiful, the atmosphere is relatively charming.
Old bustards or turtles collect money at the door, there are also at the ends of the head to care for prostitutes, and there is a small health room for urgent needs.
One of the self-propaganda virtues of the Kuomintang to set up a "military paradise" is that this can prevent sexually transmitted diseases, but in fact the effect is not outstanding, and although the "military paradise" requires Brother A Bing to wear sanitary clothes, few people are willing. Once Chiang Ching-kuo asked a veteran with an venereal disease: "Why don't you want to wear a sanitary clothe?" The veteran soldier replied with great ease: "Report Director Jiang, do you wear socks to wash your feet?" Chiang Ching-kuo heard the words jammed. It can be seen that the "insurance education" in the military was promoted early, but the resistance was not small.
Writer Li Ao has secretly visited the "paradise in the army" many times. His records show that some of the ladies in the "military paradise" were abducted and sold, and some were sentenced female prisoners, and they were like prostitutes in the "military paradise" of the old society. The "military paradise" is contracted by private individuals, and the ladies who fail to complete the pick-up task will be severely beaten.
The full name of the "military paradise" where Li Ao served was "Renwu Special Tea Room", which was jokingly called "Zoo" by soldiers. Li Ao called it a "human meat market", because the lady received customers "with a lower limit and no upper limit", in the days when the soldiers were paid, each person received as many as fifty or sixty times a day, and some special tea rooms even held pick-up competitions to celebrate the reception of many and fast people. Li Ao wrote in the oil poem: "The human meat market is really pitiful, and the veterans and prostitutes cannibalize each other. Buyers and sellers are weak, so a paradise in the army. ”
According to the personnel statistics of the Kinmen Defense Command, the average age of the girls who served in 1990 was 31.2 years old, and the education level was mostly in primary schools and middle schools, and although there were high schools and junior colleges, only a few people were there. Of course, in the 80s, there were also girls aged fifteen, six, seven, and eight.
In July 1986, there was a girl who had just turned sixteen years old in the anzen military department who received a guest, which caused a sensation, this little girl, who received more than forty officers a day, received more than 3,000 times in three months, and earned 400,000 to 500,000 yuan. Later, the little girl's family became suspicious and only then did they set the matter out. It turned out that she was introduced to work in Kinmen, but she did not know that she was working as a military prostitute in "831". Later, the broker was sentenced to ten months in prison.
At the end of the 1980s, "legislators" and civil society groups successively proposed that the "military paradise" violated the rights and interests of women, and the military was forced to gradually close these special tea rooms under pressure. Today, the "paradise in the army" has become history. According to the Taiwan Minbao, the word carries the "wonderful" memories that make many brothers blush and beat their hearts.