Man Had 16 Wives, 86 Kids

Newcastle Herald

Monday October 7, 2002

HANOI: One family is enough for most men to handle, but Tran Viet Chu, a retired bricklayer in Vietnam, has set an unofficial national record by siring 86 children from 16 `wives'.

The 75-year-old from the central province of Quang Tri, who spent 60 years travelling the country while working in the building trade, first married at age 17 and brought another 15 `wives' into his household over the next half-century.

Mr Chu, who currently lives with his second wife and 10 girlfriends, said he had never been able to control his emotional and sexual desires.

`Poor me, every time I see a voluptuously-shaped woman I cannot control my lust. I seem to have been born with this flirtatious tendency,' Mr Chu told the Cong An Nhan Dan (People's Police) newspaper last week.

`I cannot remember how many women I've slept with because over the past 60 years, during my time as a builder, I travelled to many villages and there would always be at least one woman who fell under my spell,' he said.

© 2002 Newcastle Herald

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