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Sex Is the Theme of Chinese Websites

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Yahoo Is Not Alone
Sex is the theme of Chinese websites
Chinese Yahoo is not the only site having a lot of sexual contents on the front page. Sex is more or less the theme for the other major Chinese portals. Even the famous Xinhua News Agency has promoted the Playboy contest on its website (see the picture below).

The question is why is so much sex on Chinese websites. The Chinese government apparently has not done anything to control it. The Chinese Women's Associations don't care about it either. China does not have a strong religious network and most Chinese do not have a strong bond with a religion anyway so religions are not going to help much on this. However, sex is a big money maker for Chinese websites since most of the sexual titles are ads and it attracts more people to the sites.

I don't know if Chinese people are bothered by all of the sexual contents on the Net. But sex is part of people's life after all as Confucius once said.

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