Selling the skin off his back
Selling the skin off his back
08:27, December 25, 2009 
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A man with the bleak online ID "Lost Future" has posted an ad on one of China's largest multipurpose websites, Tianya, offering to literally sell the skin off his back for 150,000 yuan ($21,965).
It's not just any skin – the 28-year-old former jailbird and heavily indebted Tianjin resident had it tattooed from his neck down to half his back for six months after reading that there's a market for tattooed human skins.
"The tattoos on my back are colorful, including a red carp and a blue carp forming a circle, while a compass map showing eight directions is in the middle," he wrote on December 18. He told the Beijing Times that even with his unspecified criminal past, his girlfriend and her family helped him with a 130,000 yuan loan to start a business selling secondhand motorcycles.
But the business failed, and now many creditors are asking his girlfriend for money. He added that four people have contacted with him about buying his skin art. He said he will use part of the money to pay to be skinned and to have new skin grafts. However he might have another legal problem. According to Chinese law, it is illegal to buy and sell human organs and skin is the largest organ of the human body.
Source: Beijing Times
It's not just any skin – the 28-year-old former jailbird and heavily indebted Tianjin resident had it tattooed from his neck down to half his back for six months after reading that there's a market for tattooed human skins.
"The tattoos on my back are colorful, including a red carp and a blue carp forming a circle, while a compass map showing eight directions is in the middle," he wrote on December 18. He told the Beijing Times that even with his unspecified criminal past, his girlfriend and her family helped him with a 130,000 yuan loan to start a business selling secondhand motorcycles.
But the business failed, and now many creditors are asking his girlfriend for money. He added that four people have contacted with him about buying his skin art. He said he will use part of the money to pay to be skinned and to have new skin grafts. However he might have another legal problem. According to Chinese law, it is illegal to buy and sell human organs and skin is the largest organ of the human body.
Source: Beijing Times
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