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Spit twit : The sale of the saliva of teenage girls has been banned by China’s equivalent of eBay.

Spit twit: The sale of the saliva of teenage girls has been banned by China's equivalent of eBay.

The seller claimed the spit was a “tonic” and had priced his small bottles at around €2. Despite the ban, he is unrepetentent and has moved on to “drool”. The drool has been “collected from pretty 18-year-old girls when they were sleeping. And buyers can pay later after they certified the authenticity of this product.”

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