Sun, 30 Sep 2007

China bans bra, underwear, sex toy ads

What's interesting about this, besides the government acting like petty Puritans? The current male to female birth ratio in mainland China is 117:100 - that one hundred seventeen boys to every one hundred girls, thanks in large part to the state's one child family policy in place since the early 80's. By 2020 the imbalance will be striking, with some 30+ million more men of marriageable age than women.

And policies like this, which discourage prostitution as well as porn, sex toys and underwear ads, are only going to increase the frustration felt by all these testosterone laden young men.

Throw in some of the other repressive policies the Chinese have, and you have an explosive mix. Not a happy social scenario...

AP - China has banned television and radio ads for push-up bras, figure-enhancing underwear and sex toys in the communist government's latest move to purge the nation's airwaves of what it calls social pollution.

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