A male sheep and female deer who have apparently fallen in love at the Yunnan Zoo have become the latest internet stars after a series of pictures posted by the zoo on Sina Weibo went viral. more ›

Pedestrians of Oubei Town (瓯北镇) in the city of Wenzhou got an eyeful on Wednesday, when a large LED billboard located at the busiest intersection in town played a pornographic video for a full ten minutes. more ›

The Federal Bureau of Investigators (FBI) has confirmed the indictment of a Chinese man was indicted on federal charges of running 18 child pornography websites targeted at Chinese-speaking individuals in China and around the world. It said this was made possible thanks to “extensive cooperation and assistance” from the Chinese Ministry of Public Security. Via a statement on its website: more ›

A 22-year-old Chinese male studying engineering in New Zealand has hit the Eternal Shame jackpot, after he was caught with a stash of 10 anime porn DVD's in his luggage at Auckland Airport. more ›

Xinhua News Agency (in English here) says a first ever joint action by Chinese and US police has led to the arrest of a 26-year-old Fujian man, Wang Yong, who it said is the founder of "Sunshine Entertainment Alliance", the world's largest Chinese-language porn ring. more ›

Seemingly taking a page out of Protestant America's book, Chinese parents are raising a ruckus over a new "pornographic" sex-ed textbook designed for primary school students in Beijing. The textbook includes several diagrams and explanations that detail what goes where, and exposes the real relationship between the birds and the bees. more ›

57 year old performance artist, Cheng Li, from Lanzhou, Gansu province, has been sentenced to a year of "reeducation through labour" for having sex with his wife in public during a show at the Beijing Modern Art Gallery two months ago. more ›

Dear Journalists, The National Office of Eliminating Pornography and Illegal Publications Working Committee will publicly destroy a large number of pirated and illegal publications on Friday, April 22, 2011. The main venue of the nationwide activity will be in Beijing. You are cordially invited to cover the event. Time: 10am, April 22, 2011 more ›

When we told you yesterday that mainland Chinese are flocking to Hong Kong in droves to watch the world's first 3D porn film Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy, we knew this was just low hanging fruit ready for NMA's picking -- and we were right! Enjoy: more ›

We've covered the dismal state of film censorship in the mainland before and if you ever wondered what new artistic heights Chinese film could've reached if not for that, here's the answer. A Hong Kong film production company (where they're not so artistically restricted) is creating a fuss for making the "world's first" 3D porn. The erotic film Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy set back in the Ming dynasty court is directed by Christopher Sun and stars one Hong Kong and two Japanese actors in the main roles. Check out the sneak peek above (NSFW). more ›

Here's a reason not to shut down those health websites: a recent survey from the Social Investigation Center of China Youth Daily found that 79% of Chinese youth find out their "sexual knowledge" from the Internet, compared to only 32% from school and 31% from parents. "There is a severe lack of formal sex education in China, so many teenagers turn to the Internet," one moderator of an online sex-ed forum said. Of note though: the survey was conducted online. more ›

As part of China's crusade against pornography, the government has been offering rewards for tips on illegal pornography sites, and It looks like someone's cashed in: though the government won't release a name, they claim a student was paid 10,000 RMB in rewards for submitting tips on 32 porn sites. And what, you ask, would a student do with all that money? more ›

In a country where freedoms are carefully chosen, China's internet has remained one of the few places where individuals can freely operate. Well, sort of: a good analogy would liken the internet here to the wild west, a place where disorder and unbridled individual liberty is always being chased by the law in one way or another. But China's net police seem to have taken a pretty drastic step in their ongoing efforts to tightly regulate the internet. more ›

We've been updating you with the latest on China's battle against internet pornography, but here's some good old Shanghai Daily reportage on our upstanding city's efforts against e-smut, particularly the type that drops right into the palm of your hand. Over the course of the past year, Shanghai has blocked nearly 1,900 mobile porn sites in an effort to clean up the country's new (and poorly censored) 3G networks. Some mobile customers have complained of receiving up to ten anonymous solicitations a day directing them to mobile porn, to which we say "oh, so that's what those text messages were about." more ›

Ever been surfing around on the Chinese internet, looking at BBS forums and searching for any new pictures of Jay Chou that might have surfaced since you were last on, only to stumble across some terribly lewd pornographic site that wasn't blocked by the Great Firewall? Neither have we, but in case you do, the government is now offering between 1,000-10,000 RMB for tips on pornography. There are 9 different categories users can tip the police off about, including mobile porn. Apparently the campaign is already pretty successful: 3,500 out of 13,000 or so tips have been confirmed. Take that, pornographers! more ›

Since China unveiled its new 3G system earlier this year, it seems a number of perverted entrepreneurs have been utilizing the system to revolutionize the Chinese mobile internet: that's right, we're talking about mobile porn. Since it's easier for them to evade the authorities by changing IP addresses and domain names because of a lack of efficiency in monitoring the new technology, the highly illegal pornography industry in China has increasingly shifted their focus to mobile phones. The authorities are looking into ways to crack down on the porn sites, but as we all know, Chinese netizens are a pretty tough group to control. 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 ›

One of the weirdest controversies we've been reading about has been whether or not the Beijing CCTV is “profane.” We're not sure when rumors that the headquarters of China's media mammoth was a “monument to pornography” surfaced, but it seems like it's now serious enough for Rem Koolhaas himself to categorically deny that he ever meant the building to look like genitalia. “I'm extremely sad that the best intentions, the best work of so many people, literally thousands of people, from the architects to the company to the workers, is compromised by this rumor, which as I said has no truth whatsoever,” he told CCTV. What are that chances that this will be enough to convince errant netizens that they shouldn't blow up the building since it shames the Chinese people? Source:Danwei more ›

• Here's a 4-year-old girl who loves her beer [People's Daily Online] "A 4-year-old girl in Penglai, Shandong province, loves beer so much that she wants to have a glass of the alcoholic beverage with each meal. The toddler first tasted beer about a year back, and has since refused to eat if there wasn't a glassful beside her plate. Her careless parents are now desperately seeking help to get their daughter give up the habit."
• Kids Put The Heat On Police Exam Cheaters In China [CBS News] "Police officers contemplating cheating on promotion exams met their match this week in northwestern China _ 18 serious-faced fifth-graders walking the beat. The students were decked in blue and white school uniforms, and photos on the local government Web site showed them standing behind podiums and sauntering up and down aisles of various classrooms to monitor 265 police test-takers in Liangzhou county in Gansu province."
• Xu Zhiyong: Destined To Fight For Social Justice [China Digital Times] "It is very unusual for a human rights activist to be profiled by official media in China. The Economic Observer recently published a profile of Xu Zhiyong, a legal scholar and activist who relentlessly seeks social justice. Excerpts translated by CDT’s Linjun Fan."

When summer comes, everyone wants to dive in the water to cool down. Recently, many hotels and high-end clubs in Chongqing posted ads in a BBS claiming that they offer beauties at the pool to "play with" as a deal to attract male customers. more ›

Porn shoot? Nope. Actually, this was a photography competition hosted by a real estate company in Hubei. The photographer's mission, if they chose to accept it, was to take a great picture of a (very naked) human figure on pieces of property the company had up for sale. And accept it they did... in droves. Over 100 pervy photogs showed up to snap pics... we're betting not all of them made it to public collections. more ›

It's been a month since the online internet porn crackdown, and now China is planning to expand its crusade to cellphone websites, chat rooms, video download services and instant messenger groups. more ›

As we've mentioned earlier, the China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center this week published a list of web pages considered "vulgar and unhealthy". Google and Baidu, among others, were warned to clean out the unwanted material... or face the music. Baidu has already issued a very contrite-sounding apology. Meanwhile, high-ranking officials have demanded the resignation of three editors at news.163.com we hear. At Kuaiche, one of the web portals criticized, we could see clear results today. The first screenshot shows what the page's photo section looked like yesterday, the picture below is the same section today. We feel less vulgar already. more ›

Another day, another Kappa Girl story. Looks like our good friend has caught the attention of professional pornographers and may finally be getting her big break soon. You see, the kind souls at adult entertainment studio Harmony Films were totally flabbergasted to hear that Kappa Girl was sacked by her employer, and after purveying the 12 minute sex video that got her into trouble, have decided to help her do what she does best and make money at the same time by offering a contract to her — no, not as a fluffer or a lighting assistant, but as a pornstar. more ›

A China Daily report dated 14 December 2007 suggesting that Beijing may make a temporary exception for banned foreign publications such as Playboy and The Sun has travelled around the world and created a mini-furore and lots of confusion back home here. Here are the offending paragraphs:

All pornographic material is prohibited on the mainland but a temporary exception could be made for the Games, according to the biggest importer of foreign publications in the country. "Our law forbids Playboy and we should obey this, but we can't rule out the possibility that it might make its debut. There might be a demand for it (from athletes or visitors) during the Games," said Liang Jianrui, vice-president of China National Publications Import and Export Corporation, which will manage the nine magazine-selling kiosks sanctioned by Olympic organizers BOCOG during the Olympic and Paralympic Games. more ›

Today I saw reports on CCTV-12 related to the crackdown on porn sites. And unlike other reports on murder, theft, and sexual crimes, I thought there was a problem with these reports. more ›