chinese box

"Officials in the sprawling city of Chongqing, where Love Land was being built, recently became incensed over the risqué nature of the park and ordered its destruction, according to a report published Sunday in the Chongqing Evening News, a state-run newspaper. Angry Internet postings about the park had been proliferating, and China Daily, the official English-language newspaper, published an article about the park last Friday." nyt

i'm not sure we have one of these in the usa. ok, well, there's vegas. but that's really really subtle, don't you think? i'm puzzled why anyone over there thought this was going to work. i mean, i know there has to be a LOT of sex going on because there are so many people living there but an amusement park?

no government has ever fallen solely because of sexual repression. i guess folks are just too embarrassed about it all. i do remember a lovely young co-ed standing up in my "freud & his impact" class at new college & passionately declaiming, "why can't we all just have sex w/whomever & whenever we please" to which my gorgeous professor, faye hansen, drolly replied, "because no bridges would ever get built." i took note of the co-ed's position & eventually explored several others w/her. i thought faye might be wrong.

i do have to say that this is the first sign i've seen of the insidious contamination of china by good ol' capitalism. i read some wag during the height of the cold war saying that the russians invading america would fail because they'd all be opening macdonald's franchises within minutes of landing.

i'm sorry this didn't catch on over there. i've always had a deep belief in the fundamental power of sex to change things. who knows? when it all comes tumbling down over there we might look back on this & see the incipient moment of the revolution. a real & true sexual revolution! power to the people!