Auction Power Guide

so China’s Xinhua news agency reported

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5guBZFoyJZLWxg_f5jena5rm5e3XA

China is paying internet users to find pornography online so the websites is to be on the banned/blocked list.

Is pornography being demonized in China how bad?
Canadian scientist research concluded that "pornography did not have a negative effect on men’s sexuality."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/relationships/6709646/All-men-watch-porn-scientists-find.html
Of course that’s up to debate whether or not pornography has negative effect on society.

What’s the deal? What is China’s perception of sex? Is there a difference of opinion on pornography between the rural and the metro population? What is the history of sexual culture in China?

How will the Chinese deal with people around the world if every other developed nation have a different perception of pornography? for example in G8 nations all have some sort of legalized adult entertainment industry in pornographic or erotica videos or websites.

It’s a love/hate relationship. The pornography industry is larger than the revenues of the top technology companies combined: Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, Apple, Netflix and EarthLink.

Internet Pornography Statistics 2006
Pornographic websites 4.2 million (12% of total websites)
Pornographic pages 420 million
Daily pornographic search engine requests 68 million (25% of total search engine requests)
Daily pornographic emails 2.5 billion (8% of total emails)
Internet users who view porn 42.7%
Received unwanted exposure to sexual material 34%
Average daily pornographic emails/user 4.5 per Internet user
Monthly Pornographic downloads (Peer-to-peer) 1.5 billion (35% of all downloads)
Daily Gnutella "child pornography" requests 116,000
Websites offering illegal child pornography 100,000
Sexual solicitations of youth made in chat rooms 89%
Youths who received sexual solicitation 1 in 7 (down from 2003 stat of 1 in 3)
Worldwide visitors to pornographic web sites 72 million visitors to pornography: Monthly
Internet Pornography Sales $4.9 billion

Top Worldwide Search Requests 2006 (The website includes the top 10 US cities for each of the categories as well.)

Keyword: "porn"
1. South Africa
2. Ireland
3. New Zealand
4. United Kingdom
5. Australia
6. Estonia
7. Norway
8. Canada
9. Croatia
10. Lithuania

Keyword: "xxx"
1. Bolivia
2. Chile
3. Romania
4. Ecuador
5. Pakistan
6. Peru
7. Mexico
8. Slovenia
9. Lithuania
10. Colombia

Keyword: "sex"
1. Pakistan
2. India
3. Egypt
4. Turkey
5. Algeria
6. Morocco
7. Indonesia
8. Vietnam
9. Iran
10. Croatia

Top Video Porn Producers
Country Major Producers
1. United States
2. Brazil
3. The Netherlands
4. Spain
5. Japan
6. Russia
7. Germany
8. United Kingdom
9. Canada
10. Australia

Other Notables: Sweden, Italy, Denmark, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Romania, Portugal, Israel, Serbia, Czech-Republic

Notice: China’s not on any of the above lists. However, it does lead the pack in one area.

2006 Worldwide Pornography Revenues

1. China
2. South Korea
3. Japan
4. US
5. Australia
6. UK
7. Italy
8. Canada
9. Philippines
10. Taiwan
11. Germany
12. Finland
13. Czech Republic
14. Russia
15. Netherlands
16. Brazil

How can this be? How can China be making so much money from pornography when it’s not a leading consumer?

China (8/14/2006)
"China is the world’s largest exporter of sex toys and novelties, with an estimated 1,000 factories involved in the manufacture of “adult healthcare products.” The Chinese government estimates that about one-third of all adult products and 80 percent of sex toys and condoms sold worldwide are made in China, with annual revenues from sales of Chinese adult products reaching RenMinBi 50 billion ($6.7 billion)."

So, the quandary is how to limit access to something that the government is benefiting from in a very large way. There is also a very large pornography video network in China and a large sex industry in the form of prostitution. Pornography is readily available in-country and to be frank, there’s little need to access it via the internet. Additionally, private ownership of computers is still rather low in a country with as many internet users as China. Most people access the internet via work computers and via internet bars/cafes. Perhaps this ban is more against "public sex" than anything else!