22.1.1. Pornography ban (色情禁令)
This will be the fall of China:
And yet, every single Chinese teenager knows very well the meaning of "AV": Adult Video, the term originating notably from Japan (the Chinese really), which is one of the most common ways of referring to vide pornography.
Curious, right?
The Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (1984, 乔治·奥威尔 一九八四, 1949) quote "The sex instinct will be eradicated." comes to mind, see that section for fuller context.
Some news coverage:
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2020 during Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查), while Pornhub was offering free premium subscriptions, China was cracking down on porn harder than usual
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(biased) http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-12/25/c_138657340.htm "China intensifies crackdown on pornography, illegal publications"
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2018-01-15 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-42640569 "Sora Aoi: Japan’s porn star who taught a Chinese generation about sex. When Japanese actress and former porn star Sora Aoi announced her marriage online, it set off a frenzy on Chinese social media."
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2017-06-17 https://qz.com/1001366/how-the-chinese-watch-porn-on-chinas-censored-internet/ "Watching porn on China’s censored internet is an infinitely evolving cat-and-mouse game"
Figure 240. Ming-era dynasty illustration of a scene from the novel Jin Ping Mei (金瓶梅) where Qing Ximen (西門) and Golden Lotus (潘金蓮) are engaging in foreplay in a beautiful ancient Chinese house. For an old depiction of homosexual male sexual activity, see: this image. Source.
This will be the fall of China:
And yet, every single Chinese teenager knows very well the meaning of "AV": Adult Video, the term originating notably from Japan (the Chinese really), which is one of the most common ways of referring to vide pornography.
Curious, right?
The Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (1984, 乔治·奥威尔 一九八四, 1949) quote "The sex instinct will be eradicated." comes to mind, see that section for fuller context.
Some news coverage:
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2020 during Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查), while Pornhub was offering free premium subscriptions, China was cracking down on porn harder than usual
-
(biased) http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-12/25/c_138657340.htm "China intensifies crackdown on pornography, illegal publications"
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2018-01-15 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-42640569 "Sora Aoi: Japan’s porn star who taught a Chinese generation about sex. When Japanese actress and former porn star Sora Aoi announced her marriage online, it set off a frenzy on Chinese social media."
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2017-06-17 https://qz.com/1001366/how-the-chinese-watch-porn-on-chinas-censored-internet/ "Watching porn on China’s censored internet is an infinitely evolving cat-and-mouse game"
