"During military service," recalls photographer Lin Meng, "it's very common for guys to go hooting and hollering to a brothel together." He says that boys think of sexual experience as a rite of passage to manhood.
「在當兵時大家起鬨去逛窯子的情形很普遍」，從事攝影工作的林蒙說，性經驗對男孩子而言有種「轉變成大人」的象徵，從此不再是「毛頭小子」，在同儕間也比較可以「耀武揚威」。