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fpbOnce a year, Berlin is overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of not particularly attractive mostly naked people. They call this the love day, and it shows just how earnestly Germans take to bad-joke ideas. But it seems that the Chinese have nearly managed to out-earnest and out-bad-joke our German friends:
(From today's STRAITS TIMES) BEIJING - CHINA'S first sexually explicit theme park was torn down before it even started, after an outcry from officials, a Chinese newspaper reported on Monday.
Love Land, set to open in October in the south-western city of Chongqing, featured exhibits on sexual history and how-to workshops, the China Daily newspaper reported last week.
A picture of the park entrance showed a signboard with the park's name straddled by a giant pair of women's legs topped by a red thong.
But the plans left Chongqing officials red-faced. They ordered the park torn down over the weekend, the China Daily reported.
Officials called the planned park 'vulgar, ill-minded and misleading", said the paper. Many Chinese citizens apparently agreed.
The park had drawn controversy on the Internet, with some calling it too much, even for fast-living Chongqing, while others praised it as a step forward for sexual candour. -- REUTERS
The bewildering fact is that the officials only seem to have realized what was going on almost at opening time.
(From today's STRAITS TIMES) BEIJING - CHINA'S first sexually explicit theme park was torn down before it even started, after an outcry from officials, a Chinese newspaper reported on Monday.
Love Land, set to open in October in the south-western city of Chongqing, featured exhibits on sexual history and how-to workshops, the China Daily newspaper reported last week.
A picture of the park entrance showed a signboard with the park's name straddled by a giant pair of women's legs topped by a red thong.
But the plans left Chongqing officials red-faced. They ordered the park torn down over the weekend, the China Daily reported.
Officials called the planned park 'vulgar, ill-minded and misleading", said the paper. Many Chinese citizens apparently agreed.
The park had drawn controversy on the Internet, with some calling it too much, even for fast-living Chongqing, while others praised it as a step forward for sexual candour. -- REUTERS
The bewildering fact is that the officials only seem to have realized what was going on almost at opening time.
