August 18, 2015

"Denied legal access to pornography, China’s 649 million web users have often afforded unusually high status to low-grade footage of amateur sexual activity."

"If the ensuing fuss over the Uniqlo tape — numerous memes, T-shirts, and tattoos — seemed a little much, the heavy-handed response, which included arrests and reprimands, was undoubtedly so. Vowing to completely purge the Internet of all such content, Beijing managed to place an otherwise unremarkable video along the fault lines of free speech: between a twitchy, humorless bureaucracy and a shrinking public space in which feminist activists, rights lawyers, and student exhibitionists are all squeezed."

From "Why Is China So Fascinated by Amateur Porn?/Beijing's unwillingness to acknowledge a sexual revolution has helped boring sex tapes go wildly viral" in Foreign Policy.

58 comments:

Emil Blatz said...

That's a big market waiting to explode.

damikesc said...

Going along with a sexual revolution isn't always a good idea. God knows it's caused a ton of problems here.

kcom said...

My question is what specifically is the reason for not going along with it? It could be many different reasons. I want to know theirs.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Many Republicans find China to be the ideal society.

dbp said...

Good God nurse, get these poor SOBs some porn. STAT!

Char Char Binks, Esq. said...

I can't imagine a Chinese being ashamed to do porn. After all, who would recognize them?

JackWayne said...

Actually, R of Balls, Tom Friedman is the biggest exponent of China. Fellow travelers and all that. Right?

Moron.

Carol said...

Gee if the government would just get with the times, they could go full throttle with kiddie porn. That's where it always ends up, yes?

YoungHegelian said...

When there's so much call for porn in western societies where there's basically a 50/50 gender split, just imagine the "pent-up" (in every sense of that term) demand in a society that has 40 million males too many.

If I was running China, I'd give those guys all the porn they wanted so they don't decide to go off & invade some neighboring country in search of wives. It'll be interesting to see what happens to those "surplus" males.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Someone who successfully uses the word "moron" not as a self-description but as an insult to others would know the difference between the word "proponent" and "exponent". But Jack Wayne doesn't!

If that's the best he can do, I stand by my assessment on Republican love for Chinese social practices.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

"If I was running China..."

Before Trump, this was a position many Republican politicians might have aspired to!

William said...

I can certainly understand and sympathize with the wish to watch porn. That's one of the things that defines our basic humanity and reaches across all cultures. What I don't understand is the wish to actually make and post porn pictures of oneself. It's like rap music or tattoos. It's appeal is incomprehensible. Never has the WTF response been more appropriate....That said I wish more of these girls would dress up as Wonder Woman when they make porn. That's kind of hot.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

I can certainly understand and sympathize with the wish to watch porn.

Lol. I like how you say "wish", as if it were a Christmas list or something to post on Amazon. "I have been very good this year and hope that along with promoting peace on earth and goodwill toward men my eyes might be deemed worthy of actually being able to see naked people having sex. Oh how I wish it were so!

What I don't understand is the wish to actually make and post porn pictures of oneself.

You're not a woman, right?

Women (aged 15 to 35 or so) want attention about as badly as Trump. And particularly when it comes to their physical appearance, and how men might be impressed with it and its capabilities.

It's interesting to me that people can talk about what "reaches across all cultures" and manage to miss this.

YoungHegelian said...

@R&B,

If that's the best he can do, I stand by my assessment on Republican love for Chinese social practices.

Suuuuuuuuure, because it was always Republicans who gave public praise to Mao's China. You know, Republicans like the Black Panther Party & Bob Avakian.

Sexual repression has been an integral part of the history of every Marxist-Leninist (& some socialist) regime on the planet. That you forget this because it's not one of your standard hobby horses doesn't mean that wasn't & isn't the case.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Sexual repression has been an integral part of the history of every Marxist-Leninist (& some socialist) regime on the planet.

Except Scandinavia, France, Germany and IIRC even Soviet Russia.

So many Russian men were decimated by WWII that Russian women resorted to some of the most brazen, unostentatious and equalizing attempts at emulating male sexual assertiveness and lack of corporeal paranoia thus far witnessed. It probably wasn't as fun and whimsical as ancient Greek cultural equivalents. But apparently not like you say. I can link a good social history on it, if you want. But then, agreeing to identify Soviet Russia as a somehow more "authentically" socialist model than the longstanding Western and Nordic Europe is a sort of conservative rhetorical bait that need not be indulged any more than it constantly is, anyway.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Here you go:

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/09/sex_gay_rights_womens_rights_in_russia_fighting_oppression_behind_closed_doors/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfNibO4aTDY

Bob Ellison said...

R&B, give it a rest and read a bit.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Well Bob, it is after all a thread merely about pornography - so once you delve into your deeply cerebral and verbose explorations on the topic then you can get back to me and I'll read and read and read your Kinsey-esque dissertation and swear off all other forms of evidence or musings on the topic.

I swear, guys like you need a GPS and line-by-line instruction manual to find your own dick.

tim in vermont said...

It is funny to us to that certain people jump to the defense of the Soviets at every perceived insult to that execrable regime.

dbp said...

When the Chinese become more wealthy and free, they will demand higher production values in their porn consumption. Later, when they reach our level, they will get into armature porn for its "realism" and edginess.

Nichevo said...

But what will the Chinese do when they learn that literally everyone else in the world has bigger cocks than theirs?

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Not as funny as people who see the Soviets in everything they don't like about America.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Besides, it was a clarification - not a defense. Debate on Soviet evil might intrigue you, but most intelligent people have already moved on about the issue.

tim in vermont said...

The pic is kind of hot, if you ask me. I don't get this "boring" thing. What do you want to watch? People actually enjoying sex or men and women with zero boundaries joylessly acting out whatever scenarios the "director" feels will get the most web hits?

tim in vermont said...

Besides, they are sort of heroes, kind of like Winston Smith and Julia, hunted down for their illicit affair.

dbp said...

I hope to God that they make the same assumption I make--those porn actors are chosen for their "talent" and it ain't acting.

Nichevo said...

There's no cowardlier s*** you spew than this "move on" line. That's just shorthand for don't talk about what you want to talk about, talk about what I want to talk about.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...
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Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Talk about Soviets all you want, psychopath. That's all I was doing, anyway. Neither participant in that discussion - me OR YH -were offering a "defense" of anything bad. Unless you think sexual repression is bad, which would be a hilariously unexpected surprise, on top of the irrationality of accusing me of not wanting to talk about what Bob Ellison implored me to stop talking about.

You have always had a slightly insane streak in you.

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Nichevo said...

Man, can you jabber on when you have nothing to say.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

If you can't understand why those five sentences simply proved your dumb ass wrong, then you're a damn imbecile not worth addressing at all.

May all your powers of speech, reason and hearing die, as they are apparently wasted on you.

tim in vermont said...

LOL @8:11

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Another illiterate joins in the cackle fest.

This is why Trump told you dildos that you "need more brain".

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

7:53 was one hell of an exercise in jabbering on with nothing to say.

So apparently he wanted to pretend that something wasn't being discussed to his satisfaction, then he shut up about it, and then he accused others of jabbering.

Behold the labyrinthine nonsense of the conservative mind.

JackWayne said...

R of Balls, you ARE a moron.

1. Exponent


a person who believes in and promotes the truth or benefits of an idea or theory.
"an early exponent of the teachings of Thomas Aquinas"


synonyms: advocate, supporter, proponent, upholder, backer, defender, champion; More

madAsHell said...

This is the result of the one child rule.
Although my daughter taught English in China, and if you have money, then you can have multiple children. Essentially, they put a tax on children.

Don't tell Obama....

dbp said...

Amateur not armature--I am so going blind.
















Nichevo said...

If you didn't understand me, Monty, why didn't you just say so?

n.n said...

The Chinese have adopted Western standards of morality.

The Chinese are pro-choice, too. Where the Eastern "liberals" have one-child policy, the Western "liberals" have selective-child policy. They also do "planning" (i.e. reduce, reuse, recycle) for profit.

Very progressive.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

I understand "Nichevo" better than he thinks.

His whole story is that he would come over to my blog (back when I bothered to have one), and type some comments.

His comments essentially amounted to his way of proclaiming: "Read me! Agree with me! Love me!"

Obviously, he felt that I failed him on those accounts. And our history ever since has been as predictable as you can imagine.

(I typed this true story out in single lines, double spaced. So that the stupid can read it more easily).

Leigh said...

After watching this TED talk -- on how internet porn causes ED -- it's easy to see why hedgies are shorting Japan & China and why the Chamber of Commerce & Obama are so big on amnesty. Ponzi schemes only work when there's a high "fertility"/investment rate at the bottom of the pyramid.

http://youtu.be/wSF82AwSDiU

tim in vermont said...

R&B has a point about the sexual freedom under Marxist regimes. For instance, in Cuba, a woman who has been trained as a doctor in the finest medical system in the world still feels free to work as a prostitute on the beach for European tourists!

damikesc said...

Many Republicans find China to be the ideal society.

I cannot name one that does.

Progressives that seem fond of China, however, aren't that difficult to find.

Given that most modern feminists abhor porn, they will find that policy a God send. And abortion being required is like mana.

Before Trump, this was a position many Republican politicians might have aspired to!

Obama has publicly aspired to that position.

You are beclowning yourself more than usual.

tim in vermont said...

Sexual liberation in socialist Sweden, R&B is right about that too:

Forty years after the Swedish parliament unanimously decided to change the formerly homogenous Sweden into a multicultural country, violent crime has increased by 300% and rapes by 1,472%. Sweden is now number two on the list of rape countries, surpassed only by Lesotho in Southern Africa.

Significantly, the report does not touch on the background of the rapists. One should, however, keep in mind that in statistics, second-generation immigrants are counted as Swedes.

In an astounding number of cases, the Swedish courts have demonstrated sympathy for the rapists, and have acquitted suspects who have claimed that the girl wanted to have sex with six, seven or eight men.

JAORE said...

R&B: Frequently wrong, never unsure.

"Someone who successfully uses the word "moron" not as a self-description but as an insult to others would know the difference between the word "proponent" and "exponent". But Jack Wayne doesn't!"

And not even an "Ooops, my bad".

Telling.

Nichevo said...

Ok Monty, or Ritmo, one meets so many trolls on the Internet and you have been so many of them in your time.

I was going to try de-escalation with you but your 11:42 shows you to have left the playing fields of reality. Please prove this garbage about me stalking whatever is your blog, or retract it. Sad as it is to make your way as a rhetoritician, it's sadder still to see you descend to outright A-is-not-A lying.

Your style there makes it look as if you like to recycle boilerplate accusations against all your tormentors. I will watch to see if you repeat other tropes.

tim in vermont said...

I am wondering if internet porn is why Hillary talked about wiping her server with a cloth?

Nichevo said...

Perhaps she meant the dustcloth she uses on her crack.

rhhardin said...

Pl0n, they text it as.

rhhardin said...

Yin and yang.

rhhardin said...

Chopsticks.

rhhardin said...

Chinese laundry repairman.

rhhardin said...

Advanced mathematics extra credit.

rhhardin said...

Woman + tree = desire

Pictograph porn

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

No one said "stalking", but if that's your understanding of what you did, so be it.

Or are you just putting words in your own mouth again?

Nichevo said...
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Nichevo said...

Rhythm and Bulls_, you are a silly little bitch. It's a pity because you are not entirely without soul. But there is something deeply wrong with you.