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China wages war on funeral strippers
Telegraph ^ | 2/20/18 | Neil Connor

Posted on 02/20/2018 6:20:29 PM PST by Rebelbase

China has launched its latest crackdown against a phenomenon which just won't seem to die in rural areas - funeral strippers.

The Ministry of Culture said last month that it was targeting "striptease" and other "obscene, pornographic, and vulgar performances" at funerals, weddings and traditional Chinese New Year public gatherings.

The war on strippers at funerals has been a long one for China. Authorities first began clamping down on "obscene" performances in 2006 and launched a second campaign in 2015.

[Snip]"According to the interpretation of cultural anthropology, the fete is originated from the worship of reproduction," media professor Kuang Haiyan said, according to The Global Times. "Therefore the erotic performance at the funeral is just a cultural atavism."

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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To: EvilCapitalist

Rise up?


21 posted on 02/20/2018 6:34:59 PM PST by Rebelbase ( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
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To: Mr. Lucky

Is that rigor mortis kicking in? Or are you just happy to see me?


22 posted on 02/20/2018 6:35:00 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (It's Ok to be white.)
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To: stylecouncilor

Ping


23 posted on 02/20/2018 6:35:32 PM PST by windcliff
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To: Clay Moore

please add me to the funeral stripper ping list and fan of the genre ping list


24 posted on 02/20/2018 6:35:49 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: Rebelbase

See post 22


25 posted on 02/20/2018 6:36:43 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (It's Ok to be white.)
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To: OrangeHoof
#12 "Everybody at service get happy ending!"

Including the stiff.
 

26 posted on 02/20/2018 6:37:31 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (CNN is fake news.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

“What did the stripper say to the corpse at the funeral?”
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Are you stiff? Er, I mean, are you a stiff?


27 posted on 02/20/2018 6:39:00 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (No DACA Caca....Send the Nightmares home. "Americans are Dreamers, too." President Trump)
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To: Rebelbase

Well that lets that cat out of the bag.

I told my wife that I went to three funerals last week.


28 posted on 02/20/2018 6:40:01 PM PST by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Close. See post 22.


29 posted on 02/20/2018 6:41:22 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (It's Ok to be white.)
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To: xrmusn

Pollock’s don’t do a bad job either.


30 posted on 02/20/2018 6:57:25 PM PST by deweyfrank (Nobody's Perfect)
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To: Rebelbase

Are there many NBA players in china?


31 posted on 02/20/2018 7:03:07 PM PST by PGR88
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To: EvilCapitalist

Say! You really are stiff.


32 posted on 02/20/2018 7:04:19 PM PST by dirtymac
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To: dirtymac

What was that last line in The Stones’ “Start Me Up”.


33 posted on 02/20/2018 7:05:58 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: EvilCapitalist

Is that you Woody?


34 posted on 02/20/2018 7:06:02 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing! Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a doctor and I won't touch that thing)
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To: Clay Moore; Lazamataz

OK, that’s an LOL right there!


35 posted on 02/20/2018 7:06:51 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Rebelbase

Where the unfortunate deceased at these funerals is heading to, they have some really denuded dancers, dancing and prancing around at night...


       

36 posted on 02/20/2018 7:09:07 PM PST by Songcraft ("Pray without ceasing." 1 Thessalonians 5:17)
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To: Pray All Day

“It’s a Dead Man’s party, who could ask for more?”


37 posted on 02/20/2018 7:09:43 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Pray All Day

Modesty has just gone out the window.


38 posted on 02/20/2018 7:12:32 PM PST by Rebelbase ( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
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To: Rebelbase

ok

I know what I want at my funeral now.... A Stripper.....not...

when I read the title I thought the article was going to be about some group that steals the brass off coffins or something like that in china...I never knew it would be a thing for some one to hire a stripper for a funeral....


39 posted on 02/20/2018 7:12:59 PM PST by PCPOET7
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To: Rebelbase

Gosh, we usually just take a covered dish to the house.


40 posted on 02/20/2018 7:13:18 PM PST by Calm_Cool_and_Elected (" Undecided Voter: someone who parades their stupidity as proof of their morality." ~David Burge)
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