China is a little behind in the sexual revolution, about 30 years or so, but Chinese youth are doing their best to make up for lost time especially a little lady named Li Li. If the name Li Li doesn’t ring a bell then maybe her pen name Muzi Mei might. Li has kept a blog for the past few years which chronicles her penchant for orgies, internet dating and skepticism towards marriage. But what Li is most well known for is her ‘music’ or ‘lovemaking sounds’ which more than 50,000 fans downloaded. The government has done its best, but unsuccessfully at trying to censor Li’s blog. “I express my freedom through sex,” says Li, unapologetically. “It’s my life, and I can do what I want.”
Freedom in the bedroom is still a new concept in China, where for decades communist leaders dictated most aspects of people’s private lives from whom to marry to what kind of birth control to use. Today Chinese youth are trying to make up for lost time but, as always at a price. “Chinese are copulating earlier, more often and with more partners than ever before. Today 70% of Beijing residents say they have had sexual relations before marriage, compared with just 15.5% in 1989,” according to Li Yinhe, a sociologist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. A survey taken last January of seven major Chinese cities found that among those “14 to 20, the average age of first sexual experience was 17.4, while those 31 to 40 had lost their virginity much later, at 24.1 years old” says Fu Zhen, 28, a teacher in Shanghai.
With all the sex going on in China it is not hard to see the correlation between more young people experimenting and the rise of sex related industries popping up or growing at an exponential rate. There was the Sex Culture Festival in the southern city of Guangzhou which attracted more than 50,000 people eager to procure the very latest in adult toys–70% of which are now manufactured in China.
The downside to the new Chinese sexual revolution is that teen pregnancies are on the rise which is still considered taboo, which in turn relates to the increased number of abortions performed yearly. Yan Fengting found that “65% of urban women undergoing abortions in 2004 were single, compared with just 25% in 1999. The numbers of youth with sexually transmitted dieses are hitting the roof with HIV infections growing most quickly among Chinese 15 to 24 years old.”
Younger Chinese aren’t too concerned. A poll by a Beijing magazine found that one-third of Chinese under the age of 26 had no problem with extramarital affairs. In a country where there’s little political autonomy for young people, at least there’s plenty of free love. “Maybe in the past, everyone was obedient and listened to the old grannies that lectured on who you could have sex with and in what position,” says blogger Li. “But we don’t have time to listen. We’re too busy having sex.”
by Pimp Cafe Staff

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