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The Ten Biggest Sex and Gender Stories of 2012

The City Lady (都市女报) from Shandong today has a front page story on the Ten Biggest Sex and Gender Stories of 2012 in China (年度十大性与性别事件). Based on an exercise led by the head of the Sex and Gender Institute at the Beijing … Continue reading

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Guys and Sex Dolls – Scenes from the Guangzhou Sexpo

As millions returned to work after one of the most stressful holidays in years on Monday October 8, the Tenth Annual Guangzhou National Sex Culture Festival was finishing its last day. “Look at the time,” Professor Zhu Jiaming, one of the … Continue reading

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“Most Chinese women don’t know how to use contraceptives”

The front of the City Lady (都市女报), a national newspaper focused on women’s issues, today makes the startling claim that most Chinese women don’t really know how to use contraception. Based on what it describes as the findings of a new investigation (the details … Continue reading

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Marriage prerequisites – virginity, house, fidelity

This is the Thinking China Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published on the Chinese web, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. This week’s post is looking at marriage and relationships in contemporary China. An article … Continue reading

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Miss Universal Values

The band was playing Cocaine as the small entourage entered but it was highly doubtful any of them would ever touch the stuff: these were international representatives of China, “athletes” in a land of contradictions, competing for fresh spoils. After years of … Continue reading

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A brief history of Chinese porn

The origins of Chinese erotica and pornography can be traced way back into antiquity. Though remnants have been found dating from as early as the 1st century, production of erotic artwork appears to have properly flourished around the 10th century and reached … Continue reading

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People’s Pornography – An interview with Katrien Jacobs

China has a long tradition of erotic art but pornographic films and pictures are currently illegal. Despite frequent anti-porn clampdowns, pornography remains available both online and in the form of DVDs. A paper titled A Peep at Pornography Web in China compiled by scholars … Continue reading

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Sex shops and the Red Light Revolution

Sexy Beijing interviews the cast and crew of the film Red Light Revolution.

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Kangxi is Coming: impressions on a popular Taiwan TV show

Dee Hsu (徐熙娣) presents a flagship entertainment show, Kangxi is Coming (康熙来了), produced under the company Gin Star Entertainment (金星娱乐), is shown on Taiwan Cti TV Monday to Friday at 10pm. The show has been shown attention by mainstream mainland media, and its presenters, Dee Hsu and Kevin Tsai (蔡康永) were on the cover of February’s Esquire (时尚先生) magazine.

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Narrow Dwellings: a TV series that slipped through SARFT’s guidelines

The series has drawn a lot of criticism as well as recommendation. The former for its poor script and one dimensional characters, and the latter for its social commentary, which focuses on people of different social statuses, nailhouses, corrupt officials and mistresses, all wrapped up in the setting of a consumerist metropolis. There are edited versions of Narrow Dwellings on Youku and broadcast on TV, and lines that have been deleted for its “bone-baring” (露骨) directness.

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