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 ...
Rise up?
Is that rigor mortis kicking in? Or are you just happy to see me?
Ping
please add me to the funeral stripper ping list and fan of the genre ping list
See post 22
Including the stiff.
“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?
Well that lets that cat out of the bag.
I told my wife that I went to three funerals last week.
Close. See post 22.
Pollock’s don’t do a bad job either.
Are there many NBA players in china?
Say! You really are stiff.
What was that last line in The Stones’ “Start Me Up”.
Is that you Woody?
OK, that’s an LOL right there!
“It’s a Dead Man’s party, who could ask for more?”
Modesty has just gone out the window.
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....
Gosh, we usually just take a covered dish to the house.
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