Chinese expose secret Swedish ‘Lesbian City’

“I’ve no idea where this came from, but it’s not true … At 25,000 residents, the town would be one of the largest in northern Sweden, and I find it hard to believe that you could keep something like that a secret for more than 150 years.”

Alright Mr Know It All, maybe you just had one too many Y chromosomes to qualify for the facebook invite.

Anyway, back to fantasy: according to the myth (slash story dreamt up by a crack smoking intern), the town is known as “Chako Paul City” or “Shakebao”. Women who leave to sleep with men are only re-admitted if they undergo bathing “and other measures to protect the settlement”. Other measures? The mind boggles. In any case, therein lies the disturbing twist to the tale. Why, I hear you cry, would the fortunate inhabitants want to LEAVE? To conduct illicit affairs with men of course. The reason for the raving homosexuality of the town’s inhabitants is put down to the complete absence of males. Novel.

The myth is responsible for the Chinese crashing Sweden’s internet service providers, and Swedish tourist authorities have received an unprecedented volume of enquiries about the town. Men that have read the bizarre reports are determined to risk life and limb to make it past the two gladiator style guards, in the hope that they will be met by a throng of sex starved Swedish beauties baying for a piece of their manhood.

Now that our good friend Claes has shattered the illusion, those disappointed wannabe-travellers may want to consider changing their tickets to Alice Springs, recently reported to be a ‘haven for lesbians’ following a march at the Pine Gap intelligence base in 1983 which saw many of the lesbian participants decide to settle. All hope’s not lost then …