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Summary
China has intensified its crackdown on erotic fiction writers, particularly those creating danmei (gay romance/erotica), with over 50 arrests in Anhui province since June 2024.
At least 10 individuals have been sentenced, with penalties reaching up to 4.5 years in prison. Many writers published on Taiwan-based Haitang Literature, which has faced disruption.
Under China’s strict laws, earning over 250,000 yuan (~$34,500) from such works can result in a life sentence, though reduced sentences are possible if profits are repaid.
Critics argue the campaign undermines freedom of expression and inflates sales figures to justify harsh punishments.
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Presumably part of China’s new “Less Wankies, More Tankies” policy.
If gay erotica is a threat to your way of thinking, then your way of thinking is pathetically fragile.
The gay are too powerful for their fragile minds!
gay porn is counterrevolutionary, read theory 🙄
JUST READ MARX!
Tankies boutta call every single person whos gay on this earth a capitalist pig…
The extra sad thing is that China isn’t even “tankie-socialist” anymore, much like how the Soviet Union doesn’t exist anymore.
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Does China want weird sex fetishes, because this is how you start forcing people underground into weird sex fetishes they wouldn’t have otherwise been exposed to. Winnie Xi Pooh bear is absolutely out of his hot dog eating mind. Interesting to see the blowback in 3-5 yrs…
But we’re totally fine with this. After all, some guy tied a Japanese model at some point and now all BDSM people really like that. So I’ll keep an eye for the next big thing. Both eyes probably… In the morning, 6am, before a good shower.
What is with authoritarians being so afraid of gay people?
Accepting gay people requires an open mind. An open mind can undermine an authoritarian society
Also they arent producing fresh meat for the grinder.
It really doesn’t have much to do with gay at all, but rather different than the norm which makes it an easy target to blame and punch down on. Hitler went after trans and gays first too, same with the fascists in power in the US today.
Quite literally a tale as old as time.
Scapegoats.
Why address the real problems facing working people when you can just blame the gays/immigrants/women/drugs.
Anything but addressing the elephant in the room: the disparity in wealth keeps growing everyday.
Move the battlefield to one where the outcome doesn’t affect you and you’ll never really lose.
Plus, while you’re winning, it being a normal thing will mean you’ll get plenty of blackmail material on those who it does affect but who also prefer the connections that staying on your side gives. And you can prosecute your opponents that openly defy the ban.
They want all that sweet juicy cock for themselves.
The headline and the article itself are written in a bit of a weird way. From what i have read on that article and some others, 50+ were arrested, 10 of them at least had published gay erotica, but does not seem that they are targeting only people that write gay erotica. Not trying to excuse them or anything, its all pretty bad, but the headline seemed intentionally misleading once you start reading the article.
I’m not sure what LGBTQ Nation is on about separating 10 people from 50, but the SCMP is pretty clear that dozens were arrested for publishing danmei. They do also mention that publishing erotic materials in general is prohibited, though.
I don’t think it’s being intentionally disingenuous. Changing the word “arrested” to “convicted” makes the headline entirely accurate to the article.
So… would this book be prohibited?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1005150.Chinese_Erotic_Poems
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China just wants to keep its organ harvesting industry going. Each of those accused will walk out of prison in 5 years with one kidney.
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They’re already banning porn in general in red states. It’s already begun.
I don’t understand how authocracies are so popular everywhere. What is wrong with the freaking world?
People are increasingly relatively poor within their own societies particularly compared to the wealthy and ultra wealthy increasingly visible on the internet.
Charismatic autocrats have done a good job falsly directing blame for this to socialists. It’s maddening to behold people basically cheering for their own chains.
When liberalism fails, people look for alternatives. Historically speaking, the lower classes move towards socialism, and the owning classes adopt fascism to protect their privileged position from socialists. Apart from some important exceptions, libertarian forms of socialism generally haven’t been able to prevail, while one-party states have built third-world countries into superpowers more than once, which makes for an appealing role-model, especially in countries where the system beforehand was a monarchist dictatorship or US puppet pretending to be a democracy.
It doesn’t help that the US and West kept destroying socialist countries. Imperialism means every socialist covert is in siege mentality until the last capitalist, imperialist superpower is gone.
People are indoctrinated into being vulnerable to authoritarianism very early, it’s a big part of the major religions. Now the vulnerability is being targeted with more and more serious exploits.
People are stupid. The powers that be have a vested interest in making stupid people think they’re correct while taking power away from the smart ones.
They’ve been very successful. We pride ourselves on our stupidity and ignorance now.
Who’s gonna be the one to crosspost this to the tankie instances?
It’s there on another comment. They claim all porn, even erotica is banned, so this is good.
Honestly banning erotica is absurd, but it’s a fair remark.
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In China one must only fuck pussy… Yeah, guys, my wife said no.
