Female Passenger Forces Kiss on Taxi Driver

A video showing a woman in Mianyang, Sichuan Province forcing a kiss on her taxi driver as she left the car went viral. The posted video shows the startled driver trying to dodge the kiss while the woman leans into his seat, grabs his head and kisses him. Afterward, she gave the driver an extra 15 yuan (US$2.3) for what she called compensation for “pain and suffering.” The story stirred debate online, with some pointing out China’s absence of sexual harassment laws protecting men. “If the passenger were a man and the driver a woman, the internet would have been filled with criticism, but now most people just take it as a joke,” one user commented. Zhao Peifeng, a local lawyer, told a Sichuan news website that the woman could be charged with obscenity, a crime that can apply to all genders.