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Interested
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 Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 7:40 pm Post subject: Chinese sex park is 'for the public good' |
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There was Disneyland, and now there's Loveland...
Chinese sex park is 'for the public good'
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China is building its first sexually explicit theme park, and the giant genitalia sculptures and suggestive exhibits are getting many people hot and bothered in a country where talking about sex is still taboo.
Love Land is set to open in October in the south-western metropolis of Chongqing and will feature exhibitions about sexual history and how to use condoms properly. It will also host sex technique workshops, the China Daily newspaper said.
A picture of the main entrance shows a signboard bearing the park's name being straddled by a giant pair of women's legs topped by a red thong.
The park's manager, Lu Xiaoqing, said Love Land would help people "enjoy a harmonious sex life".
"We are building the park for the good of the public," Mr Lu said. "Sex is a taboo subject in China but people really need to have more access to information about it."
Sex is not normally a topic for open discussion in China, where government figures show only 7 per cent of women and slightly more than 8 per cent of men get immediate medical help for sexual problems.
Earlier this year, the government launched a national sex education campaign aimed at getting more people to seek treatment for sexually transmitted infections and infertility, to try to break some of the taboos.
The newspaper said that the park was inspired by a similar attraction on South Korea's Jeju island, which is also called Loveland.
China's version of the attraction does seem to be helping to get the conversation going. Months before it opens, the park is already generating heated discussions among bloggers in cyberspace.
"It's just too much," wrote the blogger Autumn Rain on the popular Chinese portal baidu.com. "It's only about getting your heart to beat faster."
"Overseas, this park would be considered artistic. But in Chongqing, it's just vulgar," wrote Big Scandal.
Other bloggers offered their support for the idea.
"I don't object. Young people need to start sex education young as China has a problem when it comes to this," wrote Eaglefly.
The park manager Mr Lu said he was happy with all the debate.
"It is quite normal to see so much discussion about it," he said. "I have found that the majority of people support my idea but I have to pay attention and not make the park look vulgar and nasty." |
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ManintheMiddle
Joined: 20 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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Great thread topic, OP.
As many here who've spent some time in Japan know, there are annual festivals honoring the *beep*. Of course, the Japanese AV industry takes things to a sickening extent, fueled on by a sexualized culture rivaling much of the West and the yakuza.
Yes, the Chinese government position has always been prudish. You might be interested in knowing that for more than a decade a sex museum existed in Shanghai only to be repeatedly closed down by the local authorities. It was finally relocated by its Chinese purveyor but to where I don't know.
In the traditional Chinese mind, public sexual expression is associated with luan, or social chaos, and that is something the government fears more than anything else. As your post suggests, there is also a lot of sexual ignorance in mainland China because of a lack of good health education in the schools. Oddly, though, for decades the government has authorized and even funded little sex shops in big cities where the salesclerks don nurse's garb and explain the function of various sex toys to curious customers right on well-walked street fronts. It's rather amusing to watch, I might add.
By the way, in China almost all the sexually suggestive billboard and magazine advertising involves Western models, giving further credence to the notion that the West is morally degenerate. The only difference between Asians and Westerners as to matters of sexua appetite are that the former (save for Japan and Thailand) tend to be far more discreet about it. |
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Interested
Joined: 10 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Yep. When I lived there it was still very naughty to kiss and cuddle in public. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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dragon777
Joined: 06 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Not really, surprising. It is ironic considering the amount of brothels and working girls which dominate the urban scene in China. It is not unusual to have these establishments located near kindergartens, schools and other community orientated organizations. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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It seems weird that both Chinese and Korean society (for that matter) fear open expression of things like cuddling and touching, but have such a high rate of prostitution related industries.
The message seems to be, it's OK to do things things, just keep it behind closed doors.
sort of...
Just another of the many strange contradictions in Asian society. |
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