#58 Porn in China : Consumption & Production (Dark Series - Part 1)

 Pornography has been banned in China since 1949. Yet 80 percent of young men (18 – 29 years old) and 50 percent of young women, or 30 percent of the whole Chinese population, admit to consuming porn as of 2015.
 So how do they access it? And are there actually local producers making and distributing this illegal content within China?
 
This is the first installment of a three-part series on China’s “guilty pleasures”: sex, drugs, and casinos.

Featuring
Danny: Chinese translator at Pornhub
Dr. Runze Ding : Postdoctoral researcher, School of Media and Communication, Shenzhen University
Shawn Suyong Yi Jones : PhD Candidate at Concordia University

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