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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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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.
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.
Me, a chad communist China supporter: Mao was good actually
You, virgin president of China: in this house we stan Deng, and Marx was wrong about class
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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!
Presumably part of China’s new “Less Wankies, More Tankies” policy.
What is with authoritarians being so afraid of gay people?
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.
They want all that sweet juicy cock for themselves.
Accepting gay people requires an open mind. An open mind can undermine an authoritarian society
It’s more than that. Denigration of homosexuality and transgender identity is inextricably linked with patriarchy. The means by which queer people are oppressed is tied very strongly to notions of gender hierarchy. They push biological gender essentialism and homosexuality as unnatural and dangerous specifically because it places heterosexual cisgender men in the highest social position possible. It allows them to benefit from the exploitation of women and queer people as much as possible. Queer people are less directly useful to them, and so they are generally very overtly violent and genocidal towards us. Trans people in particular are targeted as if one can change their gender, if gender is not innate, then it undermines the superiority of cisgender men over cisgender women. Men cannot biologically innately be superior if women could become men, in essence.
Accepting gay people requires an open mind.
Unfortunately, this isn’t true. It might be true for some number of the first people, but after that it’s just another thing people learn to accept because they were told to. That’s why even after homosexually become relatively accepted, you still had so much bigotry against bi people, and it’s why nowadays you still have so anti-trans people - a lot of whom would call themselves “open minded” just because they are accepting of gay people.
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.
No, Hitler went after communists, socialists and trade unionists first. The whole reason the nazis were given power was to destroy the Left wing which had almost overthrown the bourgeois industrialists in the years after WW1. Ernst Rohm, a gay Nazi leader, was in charge of the night of the long knives when the Nazis cleared the ghettos of communists, socialists and Jews.
Homosexuals entered the crosshairs a year later when Hitler decided his good friend Ernst was a bit too close to power, which is why homosexuality became a crime to be purged over.
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.
gay porn is counterrevolutionary, read theory 🙄
JUST READ MARX!
Gays of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains!
What if they’re into chains? Don’t kink shame.
Well, I was talking about metaphorical chains, the literal ones are okay.
get ready folks, shit like this is going to start happening in the US.
They’re already banning porn in general in red states. It’s already begun.
If they banned gay porn in the US, what would Republicans secretly beat off to?
We banned cocaine and they still sniff it like it’s the sole source of oxygen.
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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Lol the downvotes. ‘No, don’t undercut my propaganda. they must be doing it because homophobia!’
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.
I don’t understand how authocracies are so popular everywhere. What is wrong with the freaking world?
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.
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.
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.
Is this an opportunity? Should I try writing chinese gay porn stories?
你说汉语吗？
Why would speaking it matter? Oh I would have to write like that wouldn’t I. mmmmm. Are they arresting folk for translating gay erotica?
50 years of culture.
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In China one must only fuck pussy… Yeah, guys, my wife said no.
