# China gov't demolishes sex theme park before it opens **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 27, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-govt-demolishes-sex-theme-park-before-it-opens/497760 "2009-05-27T01:30:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-govt-demolishes-sex-theme-park-before-it-opens/497760/1 "2009-05-27T01:30:48Z")
Didn’t see any mention of this on the boards, so I thought I’d mention it. Chinese government shuts down [Love Land](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/18/china-love-land-sex-theme_n_204586.html), which included > [@](#): > > giant-sized reproductions of male and female anatomy, dissertations on how the topic of sex is treated in various cultures and what the official China Daily newspaper called “sex technique workshops.” Not so surprising, really. I’m surprised it got off the ground at all. However, I wasn’t aware of some of the hypocracy surrounding sex in China. > [@](#): > > The demolition highlights conflicted views on sex in modern China, where a prudish attitude toward discussion of sexuality is paired with an almost clinical approach to its physical aspects. > > While pornography is banned and sex education largely unheard of, shops selling sex toys and related items stand out prominently in many neighborhoods and sex outside marriage is widely tolerated. Prostitution, while technically illegal, is widespread and the keeping of mistresses among prominent businessmen and Communist Party officials is considered commonplace. which allows situations like this > [@](#): > > Newspapers last week carried prominent reports on a government official who was let off with a fine simply because he claimed he had not known that the 13-year-old girl he paid to have sex with was underage. And I thought the US had backward sexual attitudes. [article with video link](http://shanghaiist.com/2009/05/18/love_land_found_to_be_premature.php) [article with a couple pictures](http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2009/05/18/china-s-love-land-sex-theme-park-closed-before-completion.aspx) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-govt-demolishes-sex-theme-park-before-it-opens/497760/2 "2009-05-27T02:10:07Z")
What’s weird is they had a Sex Museum for a long time. They even sold dildos in the gift shop. [Sex Museum](http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/CSM/exhibits.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-govt-demolishes-sex-theme-park-before-it-opens/497760/3 "2009-05-27T02:44:01Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > What’s weird is they had a Sex Museum for a long time. They even sold dildos in the gift shop. > > [Sex Museum](http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/CSM/exhibits.htm) They were probably coated with lead and fatal after prolonged use. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-govt-demolishes-sex-theme-park-before-it-opens/497760/4 "2009-05-27T02:56:26Z")
> [@](#): > > What’s weird is they had a Sex Museum for a long time. They even sold dildos in the gift shop. Souvenirs, no doubt. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-govt-demolishes-sex-theme-park-before-it-opens/497760/6 "2009-06-14T22:48:21Z")
What’s with all the spambots recently? ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-govt-demolishes-sex-theme-park-before-it-opens/497760/7 "2009-06-14T23:08:24Z")
Not unlike the hypocrisy in the United States. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-govt-demolishes-sex-theme-park-before-it-opens/497760/8 "2009-06-14T23:15:32Z")
Spambots aren’t like hypocrisy? 😕 ETA: Oh, I didn’t notice those posts were deleted. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-govt-demolishes-sex-theme-park-before-it-opens/497760/9 "2009-06-15T10:44:07Z")
One of the incidents mentioned happened in my own beautiful Chinese hometown! Attitudes towards sex in China are complicated. I wouldn’t be so quick to simply label it “hypocrisy” or “backwards.” There are just such vast cultural differences that it’s hard to make value judgments like that. There are some relationships that simply mean a different thing in China than it does in the west. You don’t mean exactly that same thing when you talk about your “husband” or “girlfriend” or “mistress.” There are a whole different set of expectations (for example, the wives of these husbands with mistresses quite often have their own boy toys.) And nobody here approves of sex with 13 year olds. It’s caused quite an uproar. One thing to remember is that is still a very patriarchal and conformist society with rather strict gender roles. The closest cultural reference would be America in the 1950s. And really, it’s not a whole lot more “hypocritical” or "backwards’ than we were. Given the vast changes this country has seen in, say, the last thirty years, I wouldn’t be so surprised it doesn’t exactly resemble our own. Anyway, Chinese culture drives me absolutely up the wall sometimes, but you can’t just jump all over it whenever anyone brings it up. We probably couldn’t get a sex park built in Alabama, either. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-govt-demolishes-sex-theme-park-before-it-opens/497760/10 "2009-06-16T08:25:13Z")
You wouldn’t call sexual attitudes toward sex in the US in the 50s hypocritical or backward?