More than 160,000 netizens had logged on to Blogcn.com to read a woman journalist's online sex diaries by last Tuesday and the number grew by 6,000 daily, Monday's Yangcheng Evening News reported.

"I record my life faithfully, despite disturbances and men's repulsion," 25-year-old Li Li wrote in her diary Monday. The links to her diary have been shut down twice after thousands of netizens insulted her on the Net.

A columnist with the Guangzhou-based City Pictorial magazine, Li began publishing her online diaries under the pen name Muzimei on June 19. The diaries revealed the details of her one-night stands with different men. She did not become a hot click until she disclosed in August her affair with Wang Lei, one of the most popular rock-and-roll singers in South China who also has a bar in Guangzhou.

Some 87 percent of subjects thought she was exposing her privacy to become well-known, as revealed by a survey on Netease. Some people, however, said she had the right to choose her own lifestyle and her existence was proof that Chinese society became more tolerant. Most people criticized her as irresponsible, possibly harming children and the men involved with her.

(Shenzhen Daily November 18, 2003)