Category Archives: Sexuality

Degrees, real life, and April Fools

Posted on 2007-03-31 by Joel Martinsen

Residents of Pinghe County, Fujian Province (福建省平和县) cannot marry or get a driver’s license without a middle-school diploma. In Beijing, professor Li Baoyuan (李宝元) complains that parents are bringing their children to grad school entrance exams.

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Gender-bending Harisu performs in Beijing

Posted on 2007-03-30 by Jeremy Goldkorn

From the That’s Beijing weekly newsletter: Harisu Solo Show Expect a risqué cabaret performance from this Korean transgender superstar [pictured], famous throughout Asia for her good looks – click here for some photos. The Korean star shot to fame after … Continue reading →

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Prostitutes and language mavens

Posted on 2007-03-22 by Joel Martinsen

陪客 is a contested term in a Chinese reference book.

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Gay Shanghai

Posted on 2007-03-14 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Here’s a story by Megan Shank and Peijin Chen Ye Shanghai, Gay Shanghai. The piece is on Megan Shank’s blog, but was originally written for Newsweek Select, the bowdlerized edition of the magazine that is published in Hong Kong and … Continue reading →

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Gay chat show on Phoenix Online

Posted on 2007-03-14 by Joel Martinsen

Translations of reports on a new Phoenix TV show on homosexual themes.

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The Golden Island Bath House

Posted on 2007-02-13 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Here is a newish Chinese blog written in a very literary style, all about sex: A Big Kang. It’s hosted on the Soho Xiaobao blog provider, which is owned by Beijing’s SOHO real estate development company. Below is a rough … Continue reading →

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Li Yinhe on Sohu sex survey

Posted on 2007-02-05 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Li Yinhe comments on a sex survey, gets blasted by angry commenters, and decides to quit blogging (she doesn’t really).

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Make sure the guests are prepared

Posted on 2007-01-31 by Joel Martinsen

A guest house offers condoms and is suspcious when the guests won’t take them. By Jiang Ping (蒋平) in Oriental Outlook (瞭望东方周刊).

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Sex and manufactured scandal: The Blood Sex Tape

Posted on 2007-01-24 by Robert Ness

A hoax film ‘Blood Sex Video’ (流血的黄色录象): a documentary crew accompanies Liu Zhimin on his bloody quest for vengeance when his girlfriend falls to her death after the couple’s sex tape is released on the Internet.

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DeWoskin on mistresses

Posted on 2007-01-17 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Don’t invite your mistress if she’s coming to dinner Rachel DeWoskin (pictured), author of Foreign Babes of Beijing, wrote an article for The Times of London about mistresses or er nai in China. It’s a few months old already but … Continue reading →

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