Nude chatrooms

Stop press: Chinese people are just like people in other countries. A researcher in China is very concerned about the problem of people freely choosing to chat online (with webcams) in various states of undress:

“At first, we thought if was merely a game for a few mentally abnormal people,” the paper quoted Liu as saying. “But as our research continued, we found the problem was much larger than expected,” Liu said.

Bloody Western influence, I tell you. No segment of the Chinese population would naturally have the desire to push social boundaries and indulge sexual fantasies… hang on, what sexual fantasies? Chinese people only reproduce as the country requires, and they are completely conservative and not sexually repressed whatsoever.

• 31 Aug 2005

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