Professor James C.T. Hsueh, of the Department of Sociology at National Taiwan University, analyzes the situation from the perspective of power relationships. Taiwanese businessmen in the PRC have money and rank, which naturally makes them very attractive to mainland Chinese women. Extramarital affairs between them and mainland women are exactly the same in nature as those between parliamentarians and their legislative assistants, or between notable society figures and their admirers.
對於男人外遇，台大社會學系教授薛承泰則以「權力結構」的角度冷靜批判：台商有錢有地位，自然被大陸女人吹捧著，這和立委與助理、社會名流與仰慕者發生外遇的情形如出一轍，都是「征服」與「奉獻」的情結在作祟。