“In 1993, a businessman named Wen Jingfeng opened China’s first adult sex shop in Beijing. Since then, sex shops have been opened across the country, as the foreign media interpreted as the major symbol of China’s reform”. (From early post: Sexual repression of the stay at home women in China’s rural areas)

The societal views towards sex in China have gone a long way since the old days. However there are still far more uncertainties and inconsistencies about sexuality in this country. Swingers were recently sentenced to prison for “group licentiousness”. Pornography is banned and illegal but a large population of people have them on their cell phones. Prostitution is illegal yet it is as common as barber shops on the streets, literally.  And It is almost socially accepted for wealthy and powerful men to keep multiple mistresses while many people in the lower social classes suffer from sexual repressions…

Introducing RED LIGHT REVOLUTION, finally a film that takes a humorous look at Chinese tradition and post 1949 dogmas colliding with modern sexual value.

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From dbw:

留守妇女 [liúshǒufùnǚ]:  noun. wives who stay at home in rural areas while their husbands are away in urban areas for long periods of time

Not long ago, Dr. Zhang Hongyan encountered an embarrassing moment at the hospital emergency room: a woman dressed in rags was sent to the hospital with her lower body attached to her pet dog’s genital. When the medical staff pushed the bed into the operating room, the female patient’s face was colorless. No need to explain, Zhang Hongyan has already guessed what had happened. Zhang Hongyan picked up a suction syringe filled with anesthetic and injected into the panic pet dog.

Without much of struggle, a few minutes later, the sleeping dog was successfully taken out of the room. Drops of sweat rolled down from Dr, Zhang’s forehead. The patient gradually calmed down, however Dr, Zhang felt uneasy: in this imbalanced society, how many women are doing the same thing in order to relief their sufferings?

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