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Swinging professor jailed over orgies
By Wang Xiang |
May 20, 2010, Thursday
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A PROFESSOR in Nanjing who organized swingers' parties with 21 consenting adults was jailed for three and a half years today for "group licentiousness."
Ma Yaohai was given a severe sentence because he refused to plead guilty, said Qinghuai District Court in the capital of eastern China's Jiangsu Province. Another 21 participants of the orgies who stood trial with him were given sentences ranging from probation to three and a half years in jail, China News Service reported today.
The 22 people were the first to be convicted of criminal licentiousness in two decades. Ma's case highlighted the details of swingers' private lives and sparked a debate on whether Chinese sexual laws were outdated.
Ma's lawyer Yao Yong'an argued in the two-day hearing last month that Ma should not have been charged in the first place as their private and consent-based sex parties did not harm anyone.
Ma himself also derided the charges, telling media around the country that the crime of group licentiousness was ridiculous.
He said he was fired by the university and alienated by family and friends after his case came to light. He said he had no fear any more after details of his most private life were paraded in public for months.
But the judges said any more than three people having sex at the same time and place could be convicted of public prurience. Ma, considered the main organizer of the party, had to be punished more severely for his contempt, they said.
Police arrested the 22 people last December in a hotel suite following their Internet chat records. They were charged with taking part in 18 swingers' parties between 2007 and 2009, mostly in Ma's apartment.
Ma started an online chat room in 2007, identified himself as "Horny fire" and only wanted to talk about emotions and have some fun after he his second marriage collapsed, according to an earlier report.
He left the chat room in 2009 because he could not control the 290-plus members, most of whom only signed in for one-night-stands. But he continued to host orgies in his apartment because his mother, who lives with him, had very bad hearing and Alzheimer's disease.
One prominent sexual-rights advocate, Li Yinhe, said out-of-date customs were to blame and the crime should be banished as it denied people's constitutional rights to their own bodies.
Ma Yaohai was given a severe sentence because he refused to plead guilty, said Qinghuai District Court in the capital of eastern China's Jiangsu Province. Another 21 participants of the orgies who stood trial with him were given sentences ranging from probation to three and a half years in jail, China News Service reported today.
The 22 people were the first to be convicted of criminal licentiousness in two decades. Ma's case highlighted the details of swingers' private lives and sparked a debate on whether Chinese sexual laws were outdated.
Ma's lawyer Yao Yong'an argued in the two-day hearing last month that Ma should not have been charged in the first place as their private and consent-based sex parties did not harm anyone.
Ma himself also derided the charges, telling media around the country that the crime of group licentiousness was ridiculous.
He said he was fired by the university and alienated by family and friends after his case came to light. He said he had no fear any more after details of his most private life were paraded in public for months.
But the judges said any more than three people having sex at the same time and place could be convicted of public prurience. Ma, considered the main organizer of the party, had to be punished more severely for his contempt, they said.
Police arrested the 22 people last December in a hotel suite following their Internet chat records. They were charged with taking part in 18 swingers' parties between 2007 and 2009, mostly in Ma's apartment.
Ma started an online chat room in 2007, identified himself as "Horny fire" and only wanted to talk about emotions and have some fun after he his second marriage collapsed, according to an earlier report.
He left the chat room in 2009 because he could not control the 290-plus members, most of whom only signed in for one-night-stands. But he continued to host orgies in his apartment because his mother, who lives with him, had very bad hearing and Alzheimer's disease.
One prominent sexual-rights advocate, Li Yinhe, said out-of-date customs were to blame and the crime should be banished as it denied people's constitutional rights to their own bodies.
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