Love Land

[GeneChing]

Anyone going to Chongqing? We'd be interested in a story on this. From the Kung Fu Tai Chi angle, of course...

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China to open first sex theme park (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/15/china-sex-theme-park-love-land)

Love Land in Chongqing aims to address taboo and improve sex education but many residents see it as vulgar

Maybe it was the giant revolving model of a woman's legs and lower torso, clad only in an unflattering crimson thong, or perhaps it was the oversized replica of a set of genitals. Either way, many residents in the south-west city of Chongqing are not happy about the development of China's first sex theme park, which has been described as "vulgar" and inappropriate.

The park manager, Lu Xiaoqing, who was inspired by South Korea's popular sex theme park in Jeju, says that Love Land, due to open in October, will improve sex education and help adults enjoy a harmonious sex life. Inside, visitors will be able to view naked human sculptures, giant replicas of genitals and an exhibition about the history of sex and sexual practices in other countries.

The park will also offer sex technique workshops and advise on anti-Aids measures and using condoms properly.

"Sex is a taboo subject in China but people really need to have more access to information about it," Lu told the state newspaper China Daily.

"We are building the park for the good of the public. 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."

But Liu Daiwei, a female police officer in Chongqing, complained: "These things are too exposed. I will feel uncomfortable looking at them when other people are around."

A commenter on the popular Sina website said Chinese people did not treat sex as boldly as foreigners, adding: "These vulgar sex installations will only make people sick."

But another commenter said Chinese people needed sex education, promising: "I will visit the park when I go to Chongqing."

Li Yinhe, an expert on sexual attitudes at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that in ancient times Chinese people had more positive attitudes towards sex. They became more ascetic during the Song and Ming dynasties, but this trend peaked at the end of the Cultural Revolution.

Since the 80s that had reversed, she said, adding: "The fact that the park has been built shows the change and that open attitudes to sex are now mainstream." One of her research projects showed that in Beijing the percentage of people having premarital sex rose from under 16% in 1989 to over 60% in 2004.

Li said that while disapproval of sex stemmed from religion in the west, in China it was largely rooted in a traditional focus on the family instead of individual enjoyment – leading people to deplore premarital and extramarital sex.

"But people will become more tolerant and have positive attitudes towards sex; for example, people [already] care more about female orgasm. I read a report saying in the west about 90% of women have experienced orgasm, but in China the number is only 28%," she said.

[Shaolinlueb]

Leave the Kids at Home: New Theme Park Is 'Sexually Explicit'

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,520290,00.html

china builds sex themed park.


i think the quote of this article is:
Lu said. "Sex is a taboo subject in China but people really need to have more access to information about it."


so they build a f*cking theme park around it LOLx10

[BoulderDawg]

Yep! That will go over big in a country where you can't even hold hands in public!:D

They say they are going to teach guys how to use condoms....Who's teaching the lessons?:p

Just from a personal viewpoint: I don't think I need a theme park to learn how to use a condom.

[Shaolinlueb]

BD

when i was over in china in 2004. i saw lots of women and men holding hands and walking arm in arm. but never much doing that with the opposite sex. :eek:

also i wonder if the roller coaster cars will be shaped like giant c*cks. and i don't mean the animal.

[GeneChing]

Seems that there's already a Love Land theme park in Korea - Jeju Love Land (http://www.jejuloveland.com/html/eng.html).


08/11/2006
SEX EDUCATION IN KOREA
A Phallus Garden in "Love Land" (http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,431224,00.html)

By Matthias Streitz

There's a persistent prejudice against the Japanese, the Koreans and other Asians -- that they're prudish and repressed. But go to "Love Land" on Cheju Island in South Korea and you'll start to question that cliché.

I can still remember the feeling of disbelief when I turned the corner in a well-heeled, respectable Tokyo neighborhood to find myself face-to-face with a porn cinema. Not only that, but on the shopping street nearby, a poster display advertised the cinema's selection of lewd flicks with maximum explicitness. A respectable-looking man in a suit stood in front of the display in broad daylight, inspecting the images like a true connoisseur.

Whoever said the Japanese are prudish? For me it was one of these moments of astonishment tourists often experience in the Far East. You think the whole region is as repressed as a priest's seminary. You see only the most daring teenage couples kissing in public. And then all of a sudden you find yourself sitting next to an office worker on the subway and notice he leafing through a porn mag. Or you discover astounding fertility fetishes in the local temple -- like a *****-shaped bell clapper dangling from the ceiling.

But if you really want to learn about the Asian sex life, "Love Land" in South Korea is the place to visit.

"Love Land" is a theme park, about the size of two soccer fields, located in the north of Cheju Island. And it's crammed with soft porn memorabilia -- statues, photographs and sculptures that seem like something halfway between a post-modern version of those temple phalluses and a Jeff Koons installation -- just more trashy, if that's possible.

Salacious Disneyland

Just behind the entrance to Love Land, an acrobatic, oral-sex ensemble greets visitors. It shows a man and two women -- one woman has her legs wrapped around the man's neck and looks like she's going to break her own neck any minute. The acrobatic threesome is illuminated at night, just like the other exhibits here: the nipple mountain crowned with pink nubs or the sturdy erect *****es that rise up from the goldfish pond like a fountain. The sculptures are so explicit you can't help stopping in front of them with a mixture of disbelief and amusement -- even as a jaded Western tourist.

What's the point of all this? And why is this salacious Disneyland located here of all places, right between the planes of volcanic Cheju Island, whose other attractions are a traditional village turned folkloric theme park and a teddy bear museum?

Even people who know next to nothing about Cheju Island are aware that it's also known as South Korea's "Honeymoon Isle." The small island with its 600,000 inhabitants has held this honorary title since the end of the Korean War, thanks to a double coincidence. On the one hand, Cheju Island is the southernmost and hence warmest part of Korea to have been properly settled. On the other hand, most South Koreans were unable -- for financial and political reasons -- to travel abroad until the early 1990s.

Cheju Island, with its beaches and mighty volcanic mountain, became the destination of choice for those who didn't want to go hiking and temple-spotting in the country's interior. That was doubly true for freshly married couples, who are still drawn to the island today.

The "island of sex ed"

During the last few decades, many of these marriages were arranged by the parents of the spouses. The lucky ones might have had a brief chance to meet each other -- under the watchful eyes of relatives -- before exchanging vows. And then, after their wedding, they were immediately flown off to the south -- to Cheju Island. As they got used to the notion of being bonded for life, they spent their wedding night and the following days on the Honeymoon Isle, which thereby also became a kind of "island of sex ed."

As late as the end of the 1980s, journalist and travel writer Simon Winchester reported that some hotel employees on the island performed as "professional icebreakers." In the evenings, the hotel would offer an entertainment program featuring lap dances and others raunchy or risqué highlights. Its purpose was to help the intimidated, freshly married novices relax -- and perhaps to give them some ideas for later. Winchester remarks wryly about one of these hotel entertainers that he probably deflowered more women than any other man in Asia.

So perhaps it's no wonder then that Korea's Love Land should have been built here, just a short taxi drive from Cheju City. Whoever has meandered about between the gigantic stone labia and climbed the 10 meter (33 feet) marble phallus probably feels a little less repressed afterwards.

Still, none of this is proof of an unusually open or relaxed attitude to sex. The opposite is true. A few thoroughly rule-governed exceptions apart, the things that are shown and imagined in Love Land are kept under cover elsewhere in South Korea. In this sense, the theme park is not unlike Asian porn mags or fertility rites: It's a small isle of freedom in an ocean of taboos.

A picture for the album

Of course, Korea's newlyweds now have other destinations they can travel to besides Cheju Island. South Korea has gotten wealthier, and flights abroad aren't a political issue anymore either. Still, the island has remained an important travel destination for young couples.

Besides tourists on an afternoon outing, you'll still see many shy young couples in their early 20s idling through the love park, glancing about and giggling nervously. They'll sit down next to each other on the phallus bench, set up their camera tripod and use the automatic release function to shoot a photo for the family album. We're in Korea, after all, and no trip would be complete without a picture. Maybe they'll even stop by the Loveland Store and purchase a few souvenirs to use later.

If they're not too embarrassed, that is.

[taai gihk yahn]

Anyone going to Chongqing? We'd be interested in a story on this. From the Kung Fu Tai Chi angle, of course...

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just admit it already, Gene - we all know that they used you and some of the Nacho Ninjette's as models for the "Pour On the Sauce!" exhibit in the Horn-O'-Plenty Pavillion...

[SPJ]

you really do not need exhibits or a park to inform or educate the public.

Parks are supposed to a miniature of nature with water and "mountains".

so that city volks and apartment dwellers may have a place to be close to nature.

Chong Qing was the war time capital during WWII. The most bombed city in the world. It is also very much populated.

a sex park is really a waste of public money.

to learn about the "secrets and pleasures in the spring palace or inside your sleeping quarters/chambers".

all you need is to study your own anatomy and read a book or manual with pictures. that is all you need.

These literatures are called spring palace map/drawing, Chun Gong Tu.
or treasure inside the chamber or Gui Zhong Bao Dian etc.

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I remember that there were many names for the postures.

such as a old cattle plowing the field.

sitting on lotus

pushing an old ox cart

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oops.

I talk too much and take away the fun of being secretive and implicit.

sometimes it is more fun that not to be too explicit in better things in life.

such as whatever happens in your sleeping quarter stays there. and not to be in the front of public eyes or eyes of many.

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:D;)

[SPJ]

In Japan, the man's Yang Tool is exhibited and worshipped as the god of offspring.

Yes. it is a diety

there is the temple of a guy's tool.

you may pray to have offspring.

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:eek:

[SPJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb-h5we1sjc

[Shaolinlueb]

In Japan, the man's Yang Tool is exhibited and worshipped as the god of offspring.

Yes. it is a diety

there is the temple of a guy's tool.

you may pray to have offspring.

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:eek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPuQIgSuKSw

[Mr Punch]

Best laid plans? (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/18/china-sex-theme-park-closes)

[Mr Punch]

In Japan, the man's Yang Tool is exhibited and worshipped as the god of offspring.It's a hard life... but I've gotta make some hard dollar somehow.

[SPJ]

actually, we see or observe "sex" in nature ot just around us everywhere. such as dogs, cats, duck calling, etc

so the state official found the giant display offensive

some people found any display of war memorial offensive, since there is only sufferring and death--

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contrary to popular belief

there are a lot of places and books (outlawed by the government), that you still may have access to some info--

if you know where to look

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:D;)

[GeneChing]

Mr Punch's article is better because it has a cool photo.


No sex park please, we're Chinese! (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30804722/?GT1=43001)
'Love Land,' which was to feature explicit images, has been demolished

BEIJING - This investment turned out to be as risky as it was risque.

A sex theme park that featured explicit exhibits of genitalia and sexual culture is being demolished before it can even open, a government spokesman in southwestern China said Monday.

The park, christened "Love Land" by its owners, went under the wrecking ball over the weekend in the city of Chongqing, said the spokesman, who like many Chinese bureaucrats would give only his surname, Yang.
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Yang refused to give the reason for the demolition or other details. However, photographs of the adult-only park had circulated widely on the Internet over the weekend, prompting widespread mockery and condemnation.

Exhibits had included giant-sized reproductions of male and female anatomy, dissertations on how the topic of sex is treated in various cultures and what the official China Daily newspaper called "sex technique workshops."

The park's main investor, Lu Xiaoqing, had earlier claimed that the attractions sought only to boost sexual awareness and improve people's sex-lives.

Conflicted views
The demolition highlights conflicted views on sex in modern China, where a prudish attitude toward discussion of sexuality is paired with an almost clinical approach to its physical aspects.

While pornography is banned and sex education largely unheard of, shops selling sex toys and related items stand out prominently in many neighborhoods and sex outside marriage is widely tolerated. Prostitution, while technically illegal, is widespread and the keeping of mistresses among prominent businessmen and Communist Party officials is considered commonplace.

Such attitudes are blamed in part for risky sex and ignorance about birth control among minors. With public discussion of sex so limited, there is relatively little awareness of sexual harassment and abuse and laws and regulations covering such matters are weaker in China than in many countries.

Newspapers last week carried prominent reports on a government official who was let off with a fine simply because he claimed he had not known that the 13-year-old girl he paid to have sex with was underage.

The man, Lu Yumin, a local tax bureau official in Sichuan province's Yibin county, was arrested on charges of child rape, but was convicted only of visiting a prostitute and fined 5,000 yuan ($730).

[Mr Punch]

They were ready for 5 metre ***** statues, just not the Nacho Ninjettes!

You should try and get the sculptures and memorabilia to sell here on Marital Arts Mart. (http://www.martialartsmart.net/Uniforms.html) Is it any coincidence you have 'mam' as an acronym, you naughty little boys!

[GeneChing]

I wonder what is to become of those legs...:rolleyes:

Chinese sex theme park shut down before opening (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/19/MN5T17MIRC.DTL&hw=love+land&sn=001&sc=1000)
Edward Wong, New York Times
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
(05-19) 04:00 PDT Beijing --

Sex in China has a long and varied history, as evidenced by accounts of carnal excess in "The Plum in the Golden Vase," a Ming-era classic, and more recent tales of Mao's insatiable appetite.

But an attempt to open the first sex theme park in China was quashed by local officials over the weekend, well before construction was completed.

Officials in the sprawling city of Chongqing, where Love Land was being built, recently became incensed over the risque 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 Friday.

Photographs online showed workers Saturday pulling down a pair of white plastic legs and hips that appear to be the bottom half of a giant female mannequin towering over the park entrance. The mannequin is wearing a red G-string.

The park's main investor, Lu Xiaoqing, had planned to display naked human sculptures, giant models of genitals, sex-technique "workshops" and a photography exhibition about the history of sex, according to China Daily. The displays would have included lessons on safe sex and the proper use of condoms.

Lu told China Daily that the park was being built "for the good of the public." Love Land would be useful for sex education, he said, and help adults "enjoy a harmonious sex life."

He added: "Sex is a taboo subject in China, but people really need to have more access to information about it."

Lu was building the park in an entertainment zone of Chongqing near the Yangtze River. Chongqing, a booming city built on hills on either side of the Yangtze, once served as the wartime capital of the Kuomintang government. Like other fast-growing cities in China, it has a reputation for loose moral standards.

Officials could not be reached for comment late Monday afternoon.

Chinese approach sex with an attitude that seems alternately more prudish and more open than that of Westerners.

The Chinese government, for example, regularly censors movies and other works of art that are deemed to have overly graphic depictions of sex. ("Plum in the Golden Vase" was banned by imperial decree.)

On the other hand, prostitution, while officially illegal, is practiced openly, with full-service "massage parlors" and "hair salons" found everywhere. Officials and businessmen often patronize these establishments or keep mistresses, a fact well known to most Chinese.

[BoulderDawg]

The demolition highlights conflicted views on sex in modern China, where a prudish attitude toward discussion of sexuality is paired with an almost clinical approach to its physical aspects.

While pornography is banned and sex education largely unheard of, shops selling sex toys and related items stand out prominently in many neighborhoods and sex outside marriage is widely tolerated. Prostitution, while technically illegal, is widespread and the keeping of mistresses among prominent businessmen and Communist Party officials is considered commonplace.

Such attitudes are blamed in part for risky sex and ignorance about birth control among minors. With public discussion of sex so limited, there is relatively little awareness of sexual harassment and abuse and laws and regulations covering such matters are weaker in China than in many countries.

Newspapers last week carried prominent reports on a government official who was let off with a fine simply because he claimed he had not known that the 13-year-old girl he paid to have sex with was underage.

The man, Lu Yumin, a local tax bureau official in Sichuan province's Yibin county, was arrested on charges of child rape, but was convicted only of visiting a prostitute and fined 5,000 yuan ($730).

Of course, just like everywhere else in the world, there is ellicit sex in China...has been since men and women walked the earth.

The difference being is that it's suppose to be an open secret. They don't care if you visit a prostitute as long as you do it on that side of town and out of view from the public. However if you're in a public park and start making out with your girl friend my guess is you won't be there for five minute before you are hauled away.

Also, it appears underage sexuality is viewed differently than it is in the west. I think most of this is due to the fact that many girls were simply married by the time they were 13.

[GeneChing]

...it's getting harder to find pics.

Here's a good pic (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Love_Land_fountains.jpg).

Arnie and Chrissie were thoughtful enough to photoblog their trip there (http://koreankiwis.blogspot.com/2007/08/part-3-love-land-funny-side-of-live-r18.html). Thanks Arnie and Chrissie, whoever you are!

Jeju Island, Korea, here I come.

[Shaolinlueb]

seriously need to go to jeju island lol.

[SPJ]

personally, instead of giant exhibits of sex organs and posturing

kind of making me want to throw up

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maybe a sex education and fitness center

a. anatomy. some history and culture according to countries, east or west etc

b. safe sex, and std, how to do family planning or avoiding to get pregnant, how not to get and transmit std.

c. fitness exercise, make certain muscles, breathing, cardio to make us fit and have a better sex experiences, not hurting knees, back, waist etc

d. how to understand your partner, pick up ques,. do's and don't

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there are more to learn then just to watch postures and organs in enormous size

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:eek::D;):)