Sometimes it's hard to make sense of the conflicting messages that bubble out of China's public forums. I certainly felt that way after reading this China Daily story (NSFW) about the Guangzhou Sex Culture Exhibition:
Once regarded as "bold and open," Li Yinhe's views on sex, particularly topics such as "wife-swapping," got a frosty reception from experts at the fourth Guangzhou Sex Culture Expo.

Addressing last year's festival, Li, widely acclaimed as China's foremost female sociologist on sex issues, said wife swapping was a normal kind of entertainment and all couples should have the right to do it if they wanted to.

"Wife swapping should not be promoted to the public as it will lead to the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases," said Zhang Feng, director of the Guangdong Provincial Population and Family Planning Committee.

Zhang added that neither the sex forum nor the expo should provide a platform for advertising bold and "unacceptable" views to the public.

"These views should be discussed as academic issues rather than widely acceptable social issues," said Zhang.
Apparently the need to maintain a removed, academic tone didn't stop the exhibition from putting on a blistering runway show of breathtakingly unclothed supermodels in crotchless bodystockings (although wearing panties, which would, in keeping with the spirit of Mr. Zhang's approach to things sexual, make the crotchlessness academic).

Apparently the theme of this year's exhibition was "Building moral sexual attitudes", and hence the rejection of such louche tomfoolery as wife-swapping, public hugging, donkey-spanking, and group Red Flower Oil rubdowns.

OK, I made those last two up, but they're exactly the kinds of things that'll be going on in the villages if people don't maintain proper moral sexual attitudes. It's the slippery slope, and not just from the baby oil and chocolate sauce (don't mix them, ideally). Look at what happened to the Nationalists, after all. They took their eye off the moral ball (no pun intended). One minute they're in charge of everything. Next minute the peasants are running the country and everyone is speaking some ridiculous, Manchurian dialect. You have to nip these things in the nipples bud.

May I add, however, how blisteringly unfair it seems that Guangzhou gets models in crotchless body stockings while we here at the center of the Empire get forty African heads of state, few of whom would be considered sexy even if they wore crotchless body stockings.

I'll leave you with that image in your head.