That's Shanghai and H.A.L. Publishing teamed up last month to hold Shanghai's first ever erotic fiction contest! (Devastated you missed your chance to enter? There's always next year!) The finalists have been chosen, and they will be gathering at Glamour Bar this Thursday at 8pm to read their works and let you all judge which you think is the steamiest (see our calendar for details.) more ›

Did you know there used to be an erotic audio book website based out of Shanghai that was immensely popular? We didn’t until we heard about its court case - where the site was shut down and the main female voice actress was sentenced to two years in prison - and we feel all the worse for it. The service, “Night Talk,” attracted 2 million hits, recorded 260,000 downloads and had sales of around 40,000RMB on its 953 episodes of erotic fiction before it was finally brought down. But the shutting up of “Night Talk” has just stirred the fervor for the audio books, with Chinese netizens aplenty desperately searching for remaining traces of its digital files. more ›