CHONGQING – China’s first sex theme park was demolished by local officials last weekend, but will reopen as a health education center.

Love Land was set to open in Chongqing in October in the entertainment zone near the Yangtze River in Chongqing. However criticisms from netizens, the media and some officials, forced its closure just as construction had begun.

Lu Xiaoqing, Love Land’s park manager, said the theme park would have be useful for sex education and to help adults “enjoy a harmonious sex life”, adding that it would have featured various exhibitions about sex, including its history and practice in other countries, anti-AIDS measures and the proper use of condoms.

“Sex is a taboo subject in China but people really need to have more access to information about it. We were building the park for the good of the public,” Lu said.

“These things are too exposed” Liu Daiwei, a Chongqing policewoman said. “I will feel uncomfortable to look at them when other people are around.”

Lu said the idea of building Love Land came up to him during a visit to South Korea’s sex park in Jeju. “We had hoped our Love Land could also become a landmark in Chongqing,” he said.

A netizen from Shandong on popular news portal sina.com.cn wrote that Chinese people do not treat sex as boldly as foreigners.

“These vulgar sex installments will only make people sick,” the person wrote.

Lu said that he was prepared for controversy but didn’t anticipate the size of the public’s hard on.

“A minority of prudish people did not support my idea. I should have paid more attention and not make the park too nasty.”

On Saturday, at the park’s entrance, workers pulled down a pair of nasty white plastic legs and hips of a giant female mannequin wearing a red G-string.

Lu Xiaoqing said he had plans to construct several naked human sculptures and giant models of genitals, as well as sex technique workshops and a photography exhibition about the history of sex. The displays would have included lessons on safe sex and the proper use of condoms.

“The decision is unfortunate,” said Lu, “but I’ve met with officials and we have reached a solution. Instead of the park, we will build 100 full-service massage parlors, 50 hair salons and 25 shops selling plastic and rubber health products.”

Lu also stated that the giant mannequin will return to the site but will “be wearing a white lab coat.”

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SHANGHAI – Students attending a junior high school in Zhejiang Province were sent tea picking for profit instead of having classes last week.

Parents of the students in Shanghu Town Junior High School in Pan’an County of the eastern China Province complained to education authorities about the safety of their children who were tea picking on cliff sides.

The school said it was part of the school’s geology program.

Pan Lixia, deputy head of the county, said the tea picking had been stopped and any money made would be used for the students.

Meanwhile, the school’s principal Xiang Weipo said, “the class will be replaced with compulsory dancing from now on. Chinese schoolchildren have shown alarming levels of obesity in recent years.”

Seven sets of dance steps have been designed to ’suit the physical and psychological characteristics of students at different ages’, said Xiang, quoting a physical education notice.

Girls will be required to learn the hootchie-cootchie, the shimmy and the boogaloo.

“Each dance set lasts four to five minutes, and will be performed during class breaks or in extra-curricular time,” said the principal. “The students can then work after school at OK Karaoke Club but that is strictly on a voluntary basis. Contrary to certain malicious rumors, the bar is not owned by my brother-in-law, but I’ve heard the commission he pays is quite generous.”

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