Authorities and experts in Nanjing, capital of East China’s
Jiangsu Province, are calling for more attention to the sexual needs of migrant
workers due (31) an increase in the number of rape cases. In
one case, a 33-year-old married migrant worker was (32) to
20 years in prison last week by the city’s Jiangning District People’s Court for
(33) four women. Luo Shuang, from a village
outside the district, was quoted (34) local newspaper
Nanjiug Daily as saying that he felt pained by his sexual (35)
and regretted the crimes he conducted. Luo even asked (36)
to give him the death penalty out of shame. "Luo is a typical
(37) of how a migrant worker can go off the rails due to
sexual frustration. This tragedy definitely (38) widespread
attention, because it keeps happening (39) ," said Yin Jinfu,
vice-dean of the Public Prosecution Department of the Nanjing Municipal
Procuratorial Department. Statistics from procuratorial bureaus
in four major districts in Nanjing (40) 78 cases of rape
were reported involving migrant workers (41) 2004 and 2005,
accounting for 48 per cent of all rape cases in the districts in the period. The
youngest migrant worker rapist was only 16, while the (42)
were aged around 25. Rape by migrant workers has been on the (43)
in recent years, according to He Gal, head of the Publicity
Department of the People’s Procuratorial Bureau in Jiangning District. "Now is
the time for society to work together and 16ut a stop to this (44)
crime," he said. Nanjing has a reported 1 million long-term migrant
workers, and a survey (45) by students from a local
university this May showed that most migrant workers described their lack of sex
while working in the city as" (46) ". Wu Yiming, dean of the
Sociology Department of Nanjing Normal University, said ignoring (47)
sexual needs of migrant workers, most of whom are male, will lead to
physical and (48) problems. "Migrant workers
are first and foremost (49) beings with normal sexual needs.
Society cannot ask them to adhere to laws and regulations (50)
suppressing and ignoring their natural demands," said Wu.