A risqué sex theme park in China is being demolished even before construction has been completed.
Love Land was being built in Chongqing, near the Yangtze River, which has a reputation as a city with loose moral standards, but local officials condemned the park’s controversial and sexually explicit entertainment.
A government spokesman in southwestern China said that the explicit exhibits and sexual culture would have to be demolished even before it’s opening.
Defending the theme park, the manager of Love Land, Lu Xiaoqing, said: “We are building the park for the good of the public and for adults to enjoy a harmonious sex life.”
Love Land would have been China’s first sex theme park.
Xiaoqing says that there would have been giant sculptures of naked humans and genitals, exhibitions of photography and the history of sex, and sex technique, condom and safe sex workshops.
He added: “I have found that the majority of people support my idea, but I have to pay attention and not make the park look vulgar and nasty.”
To an extent China does condone sex culture; sex shops are prominent in many neighborhoods and prostitution is practiced openly. Sex outside of marriage is becoming increasingly commonplace and many businessmen even take on and support their mistresses openly to symbolise how successful their careers are.
However, pornography is banned and sex education is far from promoted. Such conflicting cultural and social attitudes may explain why the park provoked a lot of angry comments on the internet, which led to its premature closure.
In response, Xiaoqing said: “Sex is a taboo subject in China, but people really need to have more access to information about it.”
