PARTY GIRLS A photo layout in the Chinese edition of Esquire goes light on ideology, lighter on clothing.
Posted on 03/04/2007 5:27:00 AM PST by Pharmboy
PARTY GIRLS A photo layout in the Chinese edition of Esquire goes light on ideology, lighter on clothing.
SHANGHAI
WHEN Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue hit the newsstands last week in China for the first time, with the sexy singer Beyoncé on the cover, the competition was fierce.
Readers here had already seen the February issue of For Him Magazine, which features a Chinese singer named A Duo on its cover wearing a white V-neck leotard that reveals every other inch of her rather substantial figure.
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The racy For Him Magazine also offers tips on “how to do it in five minutes” (because a “sex break is the same as a coffee break”) and features stories with titles like “The Dangerous Sex Journey of QiQi.”
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But in China, where sex is still a taboo subject and pornography is outlawed by the ruling Communist Party, the images are not only highly provocative but perhaps the latest sign that sex and sexuality are infiltrating the mainstream media.
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“This is a kind of grass-roots sexual revolution,” said Annie Wang, author of “The People’s Republic of Desire,” a satirical novel about the country’s mad race to modernization.
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Many say the trend is being driven by the market, and by entrepreneurs eager to cash in on the country’s freer lifestyles.
“The market is the No. 1 driving force behind the boom of such magazines,” said Pan Suiming, a professor of sociology at Renmin University in Beijing.Western luxury brands entering the Chinese market want to advertise in popular magazines and on Web sites that draw consumers. And in China right now, pictures of sex kittens draw.
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Just wanted to let you folks know that the ChiComs are closing the sex gap with the west...
With over a billion of them, I would guess that they are already beating us and have been for a long time.
Alone, I presume...
Well with all that overpopulation, they should have been beating themselves.
Point well taken.
China has long had a culture that successfully integrated sexuality with everyday life, the ChiComs were the ones who brought prudishness to that land.
Think about this...
China's forced abortion policy means that in a few years there will be two young men for every young woman in China. These Lonely guys will not be satisfied with a magazine.
Indeed...they are already stealing Korean women.
That a duo, all right.
...I don't think that's the shot of her that was on the cover of SI that they were referring to, but thanks for posting. She's always nice to look at.
Well, I like her music. I don't read SI though ;)
Thank YOU...let it never be said that FR doesn't heartily endorse diversity along with a certain kind of multiculturalism.
Quite the change from those awful blue uniforms everyone was forced to wear in Mao's day. Goes to show you how unnatural Communism is. Even people raised in it will reject it at the first opportunity.
"Indeed...they are already stealing Korean women."
Korea has the same problem, to many boy babies and not enough girl babies. Similar cultural motivation without the forced abortion.
SEX beats Socialism AGAIN!
They are also short 30-60 m women after years of one child and abortion by decree.
So what do you do with an abundance of poor military age men with no hope of finding a mate.......?
Chairman Wow!
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