what the govt is trying the best to do...see last post), the "foot
message," karaoke bars, and even "restaurants" better be controlled
somehow...the pink lights streaming out of these places are really
quite amazing...wait til nightfall, the country where porn is banned
becomes a prime destination for sex tourism (I have heard quite a bit
about sex tourism to China organized by Korean and Japanese
companies...)
Yes, you heard right...porn sites are completely banned here...in
fact, if you try to access any porn sites (foreign ones, of
course..anyone who try to register a domestic porn site is bound to be
arrested...yes, there have been cases of that..and you think Internet
is anonymous when you don't use your real name and identity...the
cyber police is quite powerful and can track a lot of things down..its
all prep for the cyber war, i.e. the war of the future) and actually
manage to get in, you find that your Internet access almost
immediately crawls to a stop and all the sudden, some sort of
restriction is placed on your Internet bandwidth...
Now, in contrast, look at the Japanese economy, where pornography is a
legitimate business (only country in Asia for that, as far as I know).
If you look at a typical Japanese porn site, credit cards can be used
to buy minutes to watch videos (in fact, the company I will work for
in Tokyo is quite involved in such payment systems), and any Japanese
bookstore has an "adults only" section where videos and erotic books
are sold...and I tell, even though Japanese porn is known for having
mosaic on genitals (there's law on that), that's probably the greatest
social freedom you will find in Japan (reading/watching porn is
definitely not a stigma there)
Changing the topic slightly, I want to look a bit into the content of
the porn. Japanese porn is really big on "black guys" as a category
(for obvious reasons, if you don't know, think certain physical
attribute) and Western porn is big on Asian girls as a category
(again, physical attribute).
Of course, the physical attribute thing is understandable, but
obviously, not all (actually, probably not many) blacks/Asians fit the
imagination of the porn makers/watchers, so as I have noted in
previous posts about race, are we again creating racial stereotypes
here?
Now speaking of these artificially created imaginative foreign
exoticism, the Chinese have certainly inherited that same spirit.
Imaginations about Japanese girls (from watching too much Japanese
porn), white girls (same reason as before), other Asians (Vietnamese,
Koreans, you name it, if its not Chinese, seems like the Chinese are
into them...), and fascinations about getting the...eh...similar
physical attributes run wild among guys who watch porn (I wonder what
Chinese girls think about when they watch porn...or do they watch porn
as much as guys?...should do some research on this topic)
So, considering we Chinese are so into foreigners, I wonder why they
are not so wild about their own countrymen who happen to look kind of
(actually, quite) foreign: Uyghurs...tendency to riot and being
traditional Muslims (I have no problem with the religion, but Muslims
are socially conservative) aside, I actually think they are really
good-looking people...
Am I the only one who think this way in this country? Otherwise why is
there so few Han Chinese who try to go after Uyghurs? (fear of death
is not a good reason for being docile here...love/lust is really much
more powerful than fear...think Romeo and Juliet...)
If anything, I think we should at least have more Uyghur models in
this country (if not more Uyghurs working in those underground
brothels...of course, being Muslims, they can't possibly do that
without threat of getting stoned back home and cause more sore between
Uyghurs and Hans...) so that they (the Uyghurs) at least don't feel as
isolated and marginalized as they are seen to be in the Western press
and by many Han Chinese...
A good example is the singing competition I saw the other day...from
twelve competitors, the only Uyghur guy was mercilessly slashed off
the show from the very beginning...I really felt a certain degree of
racism in the words of the judge (lacking passion, clarity of
language, etc...what do you expect from a Uyghur guy singing in
Mandarin?!) Is this marginalization or what?
So, conclusion for this rant: sex is sign of freedom (Japan has a lot,
and China has a lot in the underground economy...but nothing when the
hands of the govt can reach) and Chinese should have more fascination
about Uyghurs to make them not feel isolated in their own country
(fortunately or unfortunately)
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