4B is the feminist movement persuading South Korean women to turn their backs on sex, marriage and children

“I’m a straight woman who is no longer interested in having relationships with men,” says Bonnie Lee.

She doesn’t care about finding a boyfriend or a fairy tale wedding, and will decide her own happily ever after. And she is not alone.

“I’ve always felt that as a woman there are more disadvantages than advantages to being married,” says Lee, a 40-something professional who lives with her dog near Seoul.

Now she has gone even further embracing the nation’s radical feminist movement “4B” or the “Four Nos”: no dating, no sex, no marriage, and no child-rearing.

Marriage rates are plummeting in South Korea where wives are often expected to work, raise children, and care for ageing in-laws with little state or community help.