They just think it's for making children, not for making love. Coming of age during the Cultural Revolution, they met at a time in China's history when personal satisfaction was subordinate to the collective socialist cause. They had to make do with the first person they met. But Fifi knows that you have to shop around before you find the perfect person. You have to try a lot on before you find the one that's right for you.
Shanghai babies are always on the lookout for something better.
They research their stock portfolio. They sweep on their mascara and pluck their eyebrows to craft the perfect face. They play the part of sex kitten with lots of meow, because that's what men want. But the strobe exposes the girls for what they really are. In that freeze-frame instant, Fifi isn't a sexy sophisticate, just an innocent girl searching for love.