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Pornography charges against a 36 year old woman arrested three years ago after taking off her clothes and chatting with other Internet users via webcam have been dropped in Beijing's Shijinshan district after prosecutors found that nude chat rooms were not defined in China's pornography laws. This case is understood to be the first of its kind in Beijing.

What was your reaction when Chen Hui, the 28 year old boss of several major Chinese porn sites, was sentenced to life in prison recently? Our favorite sexologist, Li Yinhe (李银河) wrote about this in her blog, where she said that the sentence was way too heavy, that China was stuck in the sexual "dark ages," and that porn itself is a form a speech, rather than a sexual "action" (such as prostitution), and that if there is a market for porn, that it ought to be available. We think she means that if the porn isn't available to kids, but is something that willing adults want to spend their money on, that's perfectly fine. She also raises the question of why this one "porn king" got a life sentence while tons of others are still out there doing business. And doesn't this set a bad legal precedent -- will the judicial system continue to mete out life sentences (since the only thing worse than life in prison is capital punishment, and in most cases you can't get that for being a porn king)?

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