We have received several letters of praise and scorn from you about our Sexpats feature. If you'd like to add to the conversation, post a comment below. Editors will respond.

Dear Editor

As a loyal reader of "City Weekend" for the past year, I was completely outraged regarding the article entitled "Sexpats" (June 12). I am frankly appalled at your magazine for allowing this complete piece of garbage to be paraded on the front cover, no less. It's incredible that the staff of City Weekend would mock its readership by thinking they would find this topic even remotely interesting. I, on the other hand, find it juvenile and very desperate. Peter Chorba, Shanghai

Editor Says: While we had no intention of offending our readers, we did set out to shock the community into dialogue, much like "Shanghai Baby" did upon publication. Looks like we accomplished out mission.

Dear Editor

First of all let me say that the "Sexpats" article (June 12) is absolutely fabulous. Since first arriving in Beijing, I hadn't really read any article about sex so explicitly hilarious and yet very juicy and fresh for the expatriate community. Among my group of friends whom are all expatriates, we all made the same comment [about the article]. Some of us even tried to guess who the people who write the sex diary are! Y. D. K., Beijing

For the editor of the magazine City Weekend

I have not seen your magazine's latest issue and I don't have any desire to do it. I love your magazine, when it helps Expats with information about kids, with information about where to eat and shop, it helps us so much. But whoever decided to print the last issue made a mistake.

I have been told about it and decided to send you a letter. First time I read about the book Shanghai Baby, it was recommended by Glamour magazine from US and I bought it because hey, I was living in Shanghai. While reading it I became very disgusted by it.

For Americans in the US, it is a situation that may look fun because it's so far and remote from them and from their lives and their culture. For Expats, it is our daily life, having to deal with MANY women like the character of the book. It says that it is fiction but while reading it, I found nothing fictitious about it. (I guess the author wrote that for the people to think that it really does not happen). If you do not recall, the book was illegal in China 5 years ago, why to promote it now?

I have seen MANY families broken apart, thanks to these 20 something years old Chinese girls. And it brakes my heart to see how the book is romanticizing the situation while it has been living HELL for these women. Who talks about the married wives that give everything up to follow their husbands to the other side of the world to encounter these situation?, many of them go back broken (heart broken because most of them keep 50 to 75% of the marriage's money). Who talks about the children who have to be raised by a single mother because their father example is not much to talk about? Nobody does.

Let's have a magazine issue about it to celebrate these women who have raised their children alone, who have to start all over, that had to see their dreams and future with their husband braking into pieces in front of her. Let's celebrate that! NOT people that do drugs, parting, braking marriages…

Did the article say anything about AIDS? and how much it is increasing in Shanghai year by year? NO, Talk about social issues don't make them.

And for the Shanghai babies, it may be exciting for you now, like it was exciting to us before we got married but you will be in our place one day and hopefully you'll meet the new Shanghai babies who will try to destroy your marriage, your life, your soul.

As for the all the Chinese, this book is nothing to be proud of it and don't believe that all the foreigners support that. It is not fiction as they want you to believe and really as foreigners we don't appreciate the encouragement it has being given to more "Chinese 20 something" to act like that. Like, if fighting with the Chinese 20 something, in our everyday lives has not been enough. Now The magazine encourage them to do it.

I do believe in inter-racial marriages. I do believe in love and that can happen but LADIES find people your age, some times you seem so proud to be walking with grandpa as your partner. It is not normal and it is nothing to be proud of. Grandpa is in a different stage in their lives, sadly, you will find that you have nothing in common after years wasted with them, by then you will not be 20 something.

Find people your age, that you have things in common with them, build a past and a future together. Find somebody without a family, whitout baggage so everything can be yours, love, attention, money, time then you will be a very successful woman because you have found the perfect man! Sincerely, A Foreigner ex-20 something