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Posted on 03/02/2008 4:55:18 PM PST by JACKRUSSELL
(BEIJING) -- The no-tell motels in Beijing's university districts pulsate with sex.
Every weekend, lusty college couples make a beeline past greasy spoon restaurants and bootleg video game shops for the dim hotel lobbies to book three-hour blocks of privacy. Students fill half the simple but tidy rooms at the Cheng Lin Ming Guang Hotel, a 10-minute walk from Beijing Normal University.
China is in the midst of a sexual revolution, a byproduct of rising prosperity and looser government restrictions on private life. The relaxed attitudes about sex mark a historic turnaround from the days when love and sex were denounced as bourgeois decadence, and unisex Mao suits and drab austerity were the norm.
But the revolution is taking place largely behind closed doors, and the word "sex" — or "xing" (pronounced shing) is spoken only among close friends, and then usually in a whisper.
As a result, sex education has not kept up with sexual activity, with some unwelcome consequences. High school girls make up 80 percent of the patients at Shanghai abortion clinics during one-week school holidays, state media reported last year.
As recently as the 1980s, a couple holding hands in public would draw stares. Now, a government that once had say over when and whom people could marry is more concerned about regulating interest rates. And rising incomes have allowed urban Chinese to pursue much more than mere survival.
While the countryside remains more traditional, at least outwardly, public benches in cities are filled at night with young couples necking openly. Hipsters pack sleek clubs to flirt, chain-smoke imported cigarettes and sip green tea mixed with whiskey. Vibrators are sold in vending machines and at ubiquitous "adult health product" stores. Even the Web site of the government's Xinhua News Agency has a photo slideshow titled "Paris......
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Yo yo, praya.. you rike make hook-up wiss crassy ho yo?
I ruv yu rong time.
Seems as though everyone’s trading in Mao’s Little Red Book for their own little black ones!
Fye dorrah!
You got one gootime fye dorrah!
GI, you by me beah?
Tiger 33? mby beah and coke, mby beah and tomato juice?
All kidding aside, the cadres will have their hands full with a bunch of horny adolescents.
Pictures will be necessary to determine truth or falseness of the article.
Yeah, invest in love hotels and hook-up bars. China’s one child policy has led to an excess of males that will reach the tens of millions over the coming years.
But don’t bet some bleeding heart Americans won’t view the shortage of females as a reason to grant refugee status in the US to excess Chinese males.
“A sign on the wall warned: “If the linens are too dirty, you will lose your deposit.”
Well that’s obvious.
Isn’t it the other way around? If you lose your deposit, the linens will become too dirty.
This doesn’t seem like such great news for the women there. There aren’t enough of them anyway, with all the female infanticides over the years. Poor girls are probably being pestered to death.
I don’t see how promiscuity is ever good news. It merely means their society is becoming degenerate.
I guess you don't read much, there is one area of china where the women all have more than one husband. It has been that way for hundreds of years. Little bit different culture you know! LOL
When it marks the weakening of a harsh totalitarian system, I'll take promiscuity as good news. Better that people engage in some hanky-panky than have all aspects of life regulated by Commie thugs.
It doesn’t weaken the totalitarian system.
People chained by their own addictions are easier, not harder, to control.
Now all the govt has to do is let them have lots of sex, and it will be good enough for them, things such as freedom are long forgotten.
I didn't say it weakens the system. I said it is a sign of the weakening of the system. It's an effect, not necessarily a cause, of a freer environment in China.
People chained by their own addictions are easier, not harder, to control. Now all the govt has to do is let them have lots of sex, and it will be good enough for them, things such as freedom are long forgotten.
Perhaps. But why do you suppose totalitarian regimes have historically been so hostile to sexuality and drug use? For example, why is the increased sexuality in China such a new and remarkable thing? If it made the populace docile and indifferent to freedom, I would have guessed the Communist regime would have started actively promoting it long before now.
Name some totalitarian regimes, and their views re: sex.
Cuba?
North Korea?
Nazi Germany?
Ceaucescu’s Romania?
East Germany?
Were they all anti-sex? I don’t know. I thought they were anti-family, anti-marriage, maybe I am wrong. I know the Commies are intent on destroying marriage, which of course promiscuity does just as much as their mind-numbing life control policies.
Degeneracy will speed the collapse of the infrastructure and monolithic government.A balkanized China is the free worlds only hope.
I wouldn’t say all totalitarian regimes are hostile to sex and drug use. I think some totalitarian regimes are hostile to them because certain aspect of their ideology calls for it.
The current Chinese Fascists in charge have no ideology except power and control for themselves, so they are particularly flexible in the means of control. Right now their means of control has shifted from trying to convince everyone the nobility of Communism, to getting people hooked on sex and money, then assure them that as long as they do what they’re told they keep getting those perks.
A nation of amoral hedonists will never find the will or the courage to establish a just society.
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