Historical accounts from Mao Zedong’s longtime personal physician, Dr. Li Zhisui, indicate that the Chinese leader Mao Zedong frequently received nightly massages especially from his young male attendants.

Mao suffered from chronic insomnia and reportedly relied on massages from his young male bodyguards or attendants to help him relax and fall asleep.Dr. Li noted in his memoir, The Private Life of Chairman Mao, that these male attendants were often chosen for being “easy on the eye” and mao wrote poems on how great massages from young beautiful men

While some interpretations of these accounts suggest a sexual element, Dr. Li’s descriptions often focused on Mao’s deep emotional and deep physical dependency on his young male staff for comfort, rather than explicit sexual activity with men. Dr.Li in his memoir because of backlash didn’t gave much details on the deep map’s deep emotional and physical dependency with young men staffs.

These reports sit alongside much more extensively documented accounts of Mao’s many sexual relationships with young women, which he viewed through a Taoist lens as a means to “acquire energy” and extend his life. This memoir by Dr. Li shisui is very controversial and banned in china