After banning gay-themed TV shows and warning Chinese viewers not to fall in love with “Descendants of the Sun” actor Song Joong-ki, China’s regulator has a new order.
The country’s regulator banned the live steaming of Chinese women seductively eating banana, CCTV reported. The prohibition as to clamp down on erotic and improper content online. Prior to the ban, video streaming services in China had already prohibited people from filming themselves while eating banana which mimics oral sex or fellatio.
To enforce the order, Chinese firms providing live-streaming services would be required to track all their output 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Gizmodo reported that when news of the ban spread on global social media sites, some users of Facebook – which is banned in China – reacted negatively to the order. One commenter chided the regulator for having a dirty mind and insinuating the act mimics a woman performing oral sex on a penis. Another pointed out since it is summer, people would also post videos of themselves licking instead a popsicle, which when melted, would drip slowly into the cleavage and present an even suggestive image of semen on the breasts after ejaculation.
Posting videos by the camgirls, also called online hostesses, earn them good money. According to Shanghaiist, camgirls with sufficient number of followers could earn between 10,000 and 100,000 yuan a month by “enticing and teasing their viewers into purchasing virtual gifts, like roses, chocolates and designer bags, and splitting the revenue with the streaming companies.”
The viewers of those videos are the millions of single Chinese men who have no girlfriends or sexual partners because of China’s gender gap. About 68 percent of viewers of videos posted by camgirls are men between 18 and 35 years old.
In April, China’s Ministry of Culture said the five major video platforms – Huya, Zhangqi TV, YY, Panda.tv and Douyu – are under investigation for hosting content considered too sexual, violent or vulgar.