A Chinese man has abstained from making love to his wife for 17 years because he wants to live forever.

Chen Dong, of Chongqing city, who is in his 50s, changed his way of living after a colleague told him he would live for 1,000 years if he became a celibate, vegetarian.

“He believed it completely, and since 1989 he has had me prepare him only vegetarian meals, and stopped living with me in the same room,” says his wife Yu Hui.

Chen believes he has found the secret of eternal life.

“Simple meals can clean my body, and an asexual life can keep my energy from becoming depleted,” he told Chongqing Business News.

Chen has now been granted a divorce, saying he wants a quiet life, but has been ordered to pay his wife £5,000 compensation.

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