Dec 22 2008
Piss Off The Chinese, Post Some Porn
It is surprising to what lengths Chinese officials will go to in order to control the flow of information on the internet. This includes material they deem obscene and in China, despite being godless communists, they are extremely conservative about sex.
Those who post porn or what is deemed to be pornographic downloads can receive jail time. If you want to protest a totalitarian communist regime and piss off The Chinese Authorities for all of their human rights abuses, go grab your partner, make a sex video and dedicate it to The Chinese Government.
A recent example of China’s prude police is reported by GossHollywood.com where Shanghai authorities are now holding a woman who posted a 12 minute sex video of herself entitled: “Kappa girl at Shanghai No 1 Department Store’s east building.” If she hadn’t used Shanghai in the title maybe things would not have gotten out of hand. However, the video became popular and was downloaded enough times that this girl decided to profit from it.
Her real name is Huang and she started a blog where she offered to do interviews and provide bio information for a price–a porn star in the making. Too bad the authorities now have her in custody and are deleting the video and any information about the video wherever they can find it on the internet. Good luck, guys.
Whether or not you agree with Huang showing her goodies, it brings up the issue of whether China can survive pop culture. What happens when a Chinese film star, or maybe a better example would be a ping-pong champion, has a sex video leaked to the worldwide web? Much like our Pamela Anderson sex vids and our Paris Hilton vids it will be an unstoppable force. The more China tries to eliminate it the more popular the video will become.
Of course, according to some articles–see this one from 2005 on China and Internet Porn–Chinese women are too frigid to begin with. This may be a cultural effect where individualism is squashed by any means necessary and to be sexually active means “putting yourself out there.” Sex is an expression of confidence and individualism which often frightens those in charge because if you are not afraid of sex you are often not afraid to call “bulls**t on politics.
This begs the question as to why American activists are still even bothering to suggest that porn oppresses women. If it was forced, yes, but the opposite seems to be true too: if you force a woman not to express herself in sexual entertainment then oppression again occurs. Freedom to be in sexual entertainment is the logical choice, regardless if some American women will make stupid mistakes or be leered at by Chinese men who have obtained their videos through the blackmarket.
You must respect the dickhead China, man. They are shy when come to sex. The world of nerd, you know.
Want to really REALLY piss off that censorship loving, human rights hating Chinese government? Open up your handy video editing software and throw Guns n’ Roses Chinese Democracy on as the soundtrack to some porn and post that. They’re taking the title track a little personally.