Love Land

[GeneChing]

I wonder what is to become of those legs...

Chinese sex theme park shut down before opening
Edward Wong, New York Times
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
(05-19) 04:00 PDT Beijing --

Sex in China has a long and varied history, as evidenced by accounts of carnal excess in "The Plum in the Golden Vase," a Ming-era classic, and more recent tales of Mao's insatiable appetite.

But an attempt to open the first sex theme park in China was quashed by local officials over the weekend, well before construction was completed.

Officials in the sprawling city of Chongqing, where Love Land was being built, recently became incensed over the risque nature of the park and ordered its destruction, according to a report published Sunday in the Chongqing Evening News, a state-run newspaper.

Angry Internet postings about the park had been proliferating, and China Daily, the official English-language newspaper, published an article about the park Friday.

Photographs online showed workers Saturday pulling down a pair of white plastic legs and hips that appear to be the bottom half of a giant female mannequin towering over the park entrance. The mannequin is wearing a red G-string.

The park's main investor, Lu Xiaoqing, had planned to display naked human sculptures, giant models of genitals, sex-technique "workshops" and a photography exhibition about the history of sex, according to China Daily. The displays would have included lessons on safe sex and the proper use of condoms.

Lu told China Daily that the park was being built "for the good of the public." Love Land would be useful for sex education, he said, and help adults "enjoy a harmonious sex life."

He added: "Sex is a taboo subject in China, but people really need to have more access to information about it."

Lu was building the park in an entertainment zone of Chongqing near the Yangtze River. Chongqing, a booming city built on hills on either side of the Yangtze, once served as the wartime capital of the Kuomintang government. Like other fast-growing cities in China, it has a reputation for loose moral standards.

Officials could not be reached for comment late Monday afternoon.

Chinese approach sex with an attitude that seems alternately more prudish and more open than that of Westerners.

The Chinese government, for example, regularly censors movies and other works of art that are deemed to have overly graphic depictions of sex. ("Plum in the Golden Vase" was banned by imperial decree.)

On the other hand, prostitution, while officially illegal, is practiced openly, with full-service "massage parlors" and "hair salons" found everywhere. Officials and businessmen often patronize these establishments or keep mistresses, a fact well known to most Chinese.

[BoulderDawg]

The demolition highlights conflicted views on sex in modern China, where a prudish attitude toward discussion of sexuality is paired with an almost clinical approach to its physical aspects.

While pornography is banned and sex education largely unheard of, shops selling sex toys and related items stand out prominently in many neighborhoods and sex outside marriage is widely tolerated. Prostitution, while technically illegal, is widespread and the keeping of mistresses among prominent businessmen and Communist Party officials is considered commonplace.

Such attitudes are blamed in part for risky sex and ignorance about birth control among minors. With public discussion of sex so limited, there is relatively little awareness of sexual harassment and abuse and laws and regulations covering such matters are weaker in China than in many countries.

Newspapers last week carried prominent reports on a government official who was let off with a fine simply because he claimed he had not known that the 13-year-old girl he paid to have sex with was underage.

The man, Lu Yumin, a local tax bureau official in Sichuan province's Yibin county, was arrested on charges of child rape, but was convicted only of visiting a prostitute and fined 5,000 yuan ($730).

Of course, just like everywhere else in the world, there is ellicit sex in China...has been since men and women walked the earth.

The difference being is that it's suppose to be an open secret. They don't care if you visit a prostitute as long as you do it on that side of town and out of view from the public. However if you're in a public park and start making out with your girl friend my guess is you won't be there for five minute before you are hauled away.

Also, it appears underage sexuality is viewed differently than it is in the west. I think most of this is due to the fact that many girls were simply married by the time they were 13.

[GeneChing]

...it's getting harder to find pics.

Here's a good pic.

Arnie and Chrissie were thoughtful enough to photoblog their trip there. Thanks Arnie and Chrissie, whoever you are!

Jeju Island, Korea, here I come.

[Shaolinlueb]

seriously need to go to jeju island lol.

[SPJ]

personally, instead of giant exhibits of sex organs and posturing

kind of making me want to throw up

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maybe a sex education and fitness center

a. anatomy. some history and culture according to countries, east or west etc

b. safe sex, and std, how to do family planning or avoiding to get pregnant, how not to get and transmit std.

c. fitness exercise, make certain muscles, breathing, cardio to make us fit and have a better sex experiences, not hurting knees, back, waist etc

d. how to understand your partner, pick up ques,. do's and don't

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there are more to learn then just to watch postures and organs in enormous size

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