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Chinese Police Detain Dozens of Writers Over Gay Erotic Online Novels
Chinese Police Detain Dozens of Writers Over Gay Erotic Online Novels
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New York Times
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Yea I'm taking this with a massive handful of salt. I was just in Beijing and queer couples were just walking around openly being couples. Also the only time in my life I was comfortable around police they were very much just average community members with public service jobs.
If this is true it's probably some dumbass with brainworms, but I'm not taking the pro genocide propaganda rag that is the NY Crimes at their word.
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According to 6th tone this is something that happens. The production, dissemination and sale of "sexual, pornographic and obscene materials" is illegal in China and this is disproportionately heavily enforced against people writing gay erotic fiction.
In 2018 a popular online gay erotica author was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for "producing pornographic and obscene materials", in 2015 another was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment
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Yea ok that's dumb, unless it's CSA material people don't deserve to be imprisoned because they made or wrote porn.
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Its not just 'they wrote porn', they did so and distributed it online, for money. Of this was some passion project, a general freedom of expression, they could be distributing it anonymously and freely. I'm doubtful anyone's being arrested for their homebrew erotica - you'll never take me alive
we're being coerced into arguing semantics about the rights of petit bourgeois 'artists'
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Ya, even beyond the NYT's penchant for bullshit, the Florida Man concept should have us all remembering how easy it is for media to present narratives by reframing data.
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