“I’ve been warned not to talk about it,” the woman wrote, before revealing snippets of the day she says she was arrested for publishing gay erotica.
“I’ll never forget it - being escorted to the car in full view, enduring the humiliation of stripping naked for examination in front of strangers, putting on a vest for photos, sitting in the chair, shaking with fear, my heart pounding.”
The handle, Pingping Anan Yongfu, is among at least 8 in recent months which have shared accounts on Chinese social media platform Weibo of being arrested for publishing gay erotic fiction. As authors recounted their experiences, dozens of lawyers offered pro bono help.
At least 30 writers, nearly all of them women in their 20s, have been arrested across the country since February, a lawyer defending one told the BBC. Many are out on bail or awaiting trial, but some are still in custody. Another lawyer told the BBC that many more contributors were summoned for questioning.
As much as I like to stan China for how they treat their billionaires and corporations, this is wrong. Sex work, in all its forms, is a valid, lucrative, and old line of work across the world. China is one of the most developed nations on Earth. They should also be the most progressive when it comes to this. Smh
it’s valid to support some policies in some places without it making you a fervant supporter of everything that state does.
like I love how china actually invests in infrastructure, including housing and public transit and walkable cities.
I dont like what they do in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
The tankie government that denies Tiananmen Square doesn’t have much regard for individual rights?
More like porn is illegal, just like in half the US. Give it two years we’ll hear much worse about gay erotica artists being arrested in Texas and held without trial
It isn’t.
My state literally made pornhub illegal today please stop doing apologia and/or propaganda
China has always banned porn, if that is an issue or you oppose this woman being arrested for producing pornography then you should probably take efforts in america to prevent these exact same laws from being passed in your state (something that is already being done whether you choose to pay attention or not)
Arguing against anything I said wouldve been more productive and more interesting than promoting an abject lie that american states arent currently implementing the same authoritarian restrictions on legally produced pornography as the CCP with the list of states doing so ever expanding.
You’re welcome to sleepwalk into authoritarianism but I will continue to call it out in spite of people who choose to plug their ears or derail the conversation away from the growing surveillance state in america. Americans cant influence Chinese internal politics, so when something is wrong there they should look at what they can do to prevent the same thing from occurring here instead of just braying about how bad china is for doing what we will be doing within the decade. Why even come here just to be pithy and wrong?
They did not. Words mean things. Answered here. Cite the law: you can’t.
Right back at you: twisting the word illegal. I disapprove of the dumb online ID regulations, too: still not illegal. US isn’t throwing pornographers & erotica writers in jail.
You said it. Not banned in USA.
Chinese government is already there.
US still has a long way to “catch up”. They’re not
The Chinese government doesn’t care about individual rights & never has: it’s baked into the formula. They always put tankie ideology first, the individual later, sometimes far later.
Oh so youre actually just a propagandist, damn okay then. Im not engaging with you on made up terms and a belief that time doesn’t move forward. I hope you get clowned in the debrief for this dogshit agitprop.
Good thinking bailing now: looks like someone knows when they’re beat. It would be incredibly easy to prove me wrong if your claim were true, yet you don’t. Not hard to figure out why.
You basically: just because facts are inconvenient to your argument doesn’t mean it’s valid to ignore them, pretend they’re “propaganda”, or evade with irrelevant claims.
So, cool fallacies & evasion, bro. You’re 🤡ing yourself right here.
Next time, try logic.
States are banning pornhub and making websites require ID checks. They’re banning porn.
That’s not illegalizing it & it’s not throwing erotica writers in jail. Don’t believe me? Cite the laws. It’s legal.
So if it’s prohibited by a law then it’s not illegal?
Again, it’s not. Again, cite a law.
Weirdly they are more progressive when it comes to prostitution; prostitution isnt illegal, but soliciting it is.
so, the Nordic model? how is it progressive to criminalize human functions?
Yes, the model common to the Nordic, Vietnam, Cuba, etc.
Not criminalizing solicitation or brothels increases the number of prostitutes who end up working under coercive conditions.