China's Love Land found to be premature

love_land.jpg Looks like China's first attempt at a sexually explicit theme park came a little before its time. After videos of its statue, a giant pair of leggy legs in a red thong spinning atop the park's name, were released to the internet - Chongqing officials demanded that LOVE LAND be torn down. Love Land had been set to open in October and was envisioned to be a path towards sex education and a way to help adults "enjoy a harmonious sex life." Unfortunately, it seems like much of the population just found it "vulgar" and overly-explicit instead. Source: NYTimes

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They even reported about it on one of Germany's biggest news websites... And kinda made fun of it. No wonder they stop it after loosing so much face about it! ;)

so chinese people thought the non-gendered thonged disembodied legs were "overly explicit"
.. meanwhile, in millions of karaokes and massage parlors, the very same government officials...

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I don't think Chongqing officials care if it was reported in Germany, but they do care if it went on the front page of the party newspaper.

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CNN is reporting on this too...looks like it's getting big breasts...er, i mean press: http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/

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