(CNN) – The Chinese censors say that television programs should not include frames homosexual relations, and other issues that “exaggerates the dark side of society” , according to new guidelines.
The eight-page document on “vulgar, immoral and unhealthy content” posted on the website of the China Association of Industry production of television dramas, was dated Dec. 31 but was widely reported in Chinese state media this week.
This came after Addicted Heroin , a popular drama showing relationships between same sex, was taken from the websites of streaming video last week, which sparked an uproar in social networks. The program can now only be seen on YouTube, which is blocked in China.
The guidelines considered that besides homosexuality, extramarital adventures, adventures of a night and love affairs with minors are prohibited.
The rules state that: “No TV drama must show relationships and abnormal, such as incest, relationships between same sex, sexual perversions, sexual assault, sexual abuse, sexual violence, etc. sexual behavior”.
The document also lists a wide range of topics banned on television, including those that could damage the country’s image, promote styles of splendid life, undermining national unity and illustrate feudalism and superstition.
Campaign morality?
This is the latest example of what appears to be a government campaign to promote a stricter morality in China and even greater control over public life.
Last year, the country took the censors Internet 120 songs considered “harmful” to society.
The Shanghai Auto Show banned the “girls car” -models poorly dressed than in previous years have posed provocatively on the bonnets of cars to attract multitudes- while a major convention of Cosplay said it would impose a fine of $ 800 to women who show “more than two centimeters of cleavage”.
And in December 2014, government censors off the air a diner in the Tang Dynasty due to large breasts showing television program. Then he reappeared with fuzzy necklines.
The TV show The Empress of China represents the life of the only woman who ruled China. His reign was during the Tang Dynasty in the seventh century … when a large female bust was what prevailed in aesthetics. When the series returned to the air, the neckline was gone. Instead, viewers saw crudely edited scenes where women were only shown in close-up shots to avoid revealing her breasts.
Calls from CNN to the State Administration of press, publishing, radio, film and television (SAPPRFT, for its acronym in English), the main regulator of distribution and publishing, were not answered.
Gay Community upset
The new policy has angered the gay community in China, which says that the guidelines are out of place in a country that begins accepting relationships between same sex.
Chen Qiuyan, a gay activist and college student, told CNN she was “absolutely furious” after reading the new rules. She has sued the Ministry of Education of China on the way textbooks represent homosexuality.
“Who are these higher dragged identifying the relationships between people of the same sex as abnormal? They do not have common sense,” he said.
In 2001, homosexuality was removed from an official list of mental illnesses for clinical treatment in China. This followed a 1997 decision to decriminalize.
The gay community has made progress in social acceptance in the past two decades; young gay and lesbian activists have lobbied to ask for more rights and recognition. But stigma continues and carries considerable family pressure to keep the family line.
According to a 2015 survey of US research group Pew, 61% of the population of China said that homosexuality was unacceptable.
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