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"TV dating show runs afoul of censors in China" by Keith B. Richburg, Washington Post | July 25, 2010
BEIJING — “If You Are the One’’ is a Chinese television phenomenon, one of many popular matchmaking shows on which young people seek mates amid ribald jokes from the host and occasional racy comments from guests.
I don't watch them here, MSM; why would I want to read about theirs?
Audiences loved all the titillation, until last month — when Chinese government censors came down hard. After a contestant indicated she was angling for a wealthy man with a flashy car, government nannies ordered all matchmaking shows to cut the sexual innuendo, uphold traditional values, and ban any talk of women “gold digging.’’
The censorship is the latest and most public example of the government’s new crackdown on vice and perceived immorality. It comes even as China becomes more freewheeling and open, with people increasingly pushing the boundaries in matters involving taste, sex, and money.
Related: Going Into China With All Gays Blazing
In April, public security police in Beijing launched a “hard strike’’ campaign against prostitution, shutting down 33 entertainment venues — karaoke bars, massage parlors, and nightclubs — said to be fronts for sex workers.
Related:
"Women from the former Soviet Union and China are still being trafficked across the border with Egypt into Israel for forced prostitution by organized criminal groups"
Also see: Jews in the American Porn Industry
Chinese trying to clean it up?
An Internet white paper published last month called online pornography “a prominent issue of public concern’’ because it was “seriously damaging the physical and psychological health of young people.’’
And a spate of recent articles in officially sanctioned newspapers and magazines have been advocating a return to traditional moral values and a shift away from the country’s expanding get-rich-quick ethos — including the commercialization of sex....
See what happens when you try to be like USrael?
The new morality crusade will find some resonance, particularly among older people and the more conservative sections of society — especially in rural areas — that remember a more traditional China, where marriages were more often arranged and open talk about sex was largely taboo.
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