Still one of my favorites
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.
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.”
The images and text would hardly be shocking to American or European readers. And the magazine’s photographs are tame compared with what appears in magazines in Japan and other parts of Asia.
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.
“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.
The image up top is an example of what’s happening. This was from an advert for a Chinese tableware trade show — that I noted here at Dvorak Uncensored, 16 months ago.
China is going through the same development steps (sexual liberation being one of them) as we once did… just way faster. A couple of years ago, my wife and myself checked out a sex shop in Beijing… pretty lame stuff compared to what you can see in sex shops throughout North America, but the people in the shop all wore white doctor coats. For someone coming from the West, this was quite hilarious, but you have to keep in mind that just until quite recently, sex was something you wouldn’t talk about.
The law’s against pornography and prostitution are pretty much a show piece to the masses. In reality you can get pornography on the black market, and on the hotels that cater to local Chinese businessmen and politicians, you’ll get 10s of phone calls every night from prostitutes who’ve got deals with the hotel to do business there. If the authorities wanted to shut down this business, they could do so right away, but that would probably create an outcry.
I’d like to invite her for dinner. She’s got her own silverware.
I’d like to invite her for dinner. She’s got her own silverware.
I’d be concerned about which spoon to use…..
J/P=?
Oh, the sexual revolution, what a gift it has been. Just think, it helped get some really neat diseases into circulation. It has brought us 11 year-olds wearing shirts that say, “Just Do Me.” Not to mention stellar actresses like Pammy Anderson and Jenny McCarthy.
I’m not down on the babes, but every silver-lined cloud will still rain on somebody, somewhere.
OTOH, I’d love to ‘spoon’ with the babe in the above pic. 🙂
4 – Don’t worry, it wasn’t George Bush’s idea anyway, it was Cheney’s. He just wants to make sure Halliburton winds up with the silverware.
Sports Illustrated is refusing to send the Swim Suit edition to Libraries. Time Inc’s decision, not the Libraries.
http://tinyurl.com/2pbedn
#4
Well that’s easy, just avoid the salty one that smells like fish.
… the dish ran away with the spoon.
(hey diddle diddle)
Woman attacked by stainless steel squid. Film at 11.
FYI She’s a brazillian model and the photo is from a Lavazza ad campaign…
Check the new calendar here…
http://tinyurl.com/2ldvwl