30 people, most of them women, arrested in China for writing gay male erotica

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Authorities in China have arrested “at least 30 people”, mostly women in their 20s, for writing gay erotica in a recent crackdown on pornography.

The arrests relate to charges under China’s pornography laws for “producing and distributing obscene material,” with possible jail sentences exceeding 10 years if profits were made.

Authorities in Anhui and Gansu have detained dozens of young writers, including college students, accusing them of creating and distributing “obscene materials for profit,” the BBC reports.

The pushback targets gay erotic fiction, known as ‘danmei,’ which translates to ‘addicted to beauty’, published on Taiwan-based platform Haitang Literature City.

The genre is popular among young Chinese women as a way of exploring romantic and sexual relationships between men. 

Online discussions and social media accounts of writers are

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