Taipei: A Taiwanese woman’s ambition to kiss 100 men in Paris has become an overnight web sensation after she provided details of the quest on her much visited blog.

A woman in Taipei logs onto Yang Ya-ching’s blog, which shows photos of her kissing strangers in Paris

    Yang Ya-ching, a 27-year-old music major living in the French capital, has so far notched up 54 smooches, she said on her blog, which features photos of some of the encounters.
    Collaborators in her project included a factory worker, a model, an Italian tourist and even a soldier visiting the capital of romance for Bastille Day. “I came up with the idea three years ago”, she said on her blog.
    “Three of my four friends who were aware of the plan warned me that I might wind up getting slapped rather than kissed”.
    Since then, Yang has kissed 54 men across Paris, including a street sweeper, a model and a tourist. Kiss No. 3 came from a French man who teaches in Africa. He liked her and invited her to visit him in Africa. The man who gave her kiss No. 48 bit Yang’s lip.
    Yang, who plans to write a book about her kissing experiences, has attracted 1.97 million visitors to her blog , including more than 224,000 on Monday alone.
    Some praised her courage and envied her, while others criticized her, calling her a slut and saying her project was just an excuse to kiss handsome young men.
    “Aren’t you afraid of catching a disease?” one of her followers asked. “No”, she replied. “The more you’re afraid of, the less you accomplish”. AFP