A 38 -year -old man, identified by the Nanjing Police (China) as Jiao, He was arrested on July 5 accused of recording dozens without consent and perhaps hundreds of men during intimate encounters which later spread in networks such as Telegram, Reddit, Douyin or even X.
The case has been baptized on the Internet as “Sister Hong” or “Red Sister”the fictional female character that Jiao used to attract his victims: an alleged married woman, makeup, with a wig, long dress, voice filtered by software and with an aesthetic more typical of an influencer than of a scammer. The appointments were closed with a symbolic “payment”, instead of money, Men wore products such as kitchen oil, fresh fish, fruits, milk or even small appliances.
237 confirmed victims
For weeks, rumors inflated the figure to 1600 victims, but the Nanjing Public Security Office ended up reducing the number to 237 people Identified, most heterosexual men who did not know that they were being recorded. Among them are from university students to gym coaches, office workers, even foreigners residing in China.
The police have confirmed that the videos were distributed without authorization, although they have preferred not to give more details about the network or if there was direct economic profit.
“I called the police, my life is a disaster”
One of the triggers of the case was the public complaint of a Fitness influencer, who see his encounter with Sister Hong, broke the silent. “I called the police, my life is a disaster and I am ready to leave Nanjing and move to another city”he confessed.
Several men acknowledged that, although they suspected that something did not fit at all with the woman they knew in apps, desire, morbidity or alcohol pushed them to continue with the appointment. Some even returned more than once, to suspect that something strange was.
consent?
Although homosexuality in China is not illegal since 1997, record sexual acts without permission if it is. Since 2021, the Personal Information Protection Law prohibits data collection or dissemination without explicit consent. Police now investigates if Jiao also marketed the videos Or if only they went up for notoriety.
ETS risk
Another of the alarm spotlights has been the possible health risk that drags the case. According to several sources, Many of the meetings occurred without protectionwhich has lit the alerts for possible infections of sexual transmission diseases. Although the health authorities have offered free tests, for now there have been no cases directly linked to these meetings.
A viral phenomenon
While those affected try to recover their life, the character of Sister Hong has been converted into parody, object of merchandising model for memes with artificial intelligence and even a symbol of viral debates about gender, consent and sexuality. Weibo, the social network most similar to Twitter in China, has exceeded 200 million case views.
