Friday Photo: Sex theme park opens in China

Posted By Joshua Keating Friday, May 15, 2009 - 5:23 PM Share

Visitors try to get a glimpse of 'Love Land', billed as China's first-ever sex theme park, in southwest China's Chongqing municipality on May 15, 2009. The sex theme park is slated to open in October, but detractors hope the project will never see the light of day, as the exhibits of naked human sculptures, giant genitals and boasts a sex technique workshop is stirring up howls of protest.

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WAYAN

1:40 AM ET

May 16, 2009

Where are the Asian women

Is it just me, or does a Chinese sex theme park looking out of place if all the models are European instead of Asian?

PJSHELDON

4:12 AM ET

May 16, 2009

and the white penis

cause it will be less controversial than using chinese women?

PJSHELDON

4:15 AM ET

May 16, 2009

my first (now second) comment

and I'm really wishing i had thought of something more clever.

JGARZIK

3:42 AM ET

May 18, 2009

Park being re-thought?

According to BBC News, China's sex theme park was torn down before it even opened.

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