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Sex parties and 800 girls
By Wang Yong |
April 8, 2010, Thursday
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A PROFESSOR of computer science has gone on trial behind doors for allegedly having organized sex parties involving around 20 consenting adults.
A local court in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province, said the trial that opened yesterday was not open to public because it involves the privacy of the professor and other defendants, the youngest being a woman born in 1983.
Prosecutors charged professor Ma Yaohai from a college in Nanjing for violating Article 301 of China's Criminal Law by organizing orgies from 2007 to 2009. The article punishes those who organize or repeatedly participate in a party or parties of licentious activities, but it does not define "licentious activities," nor does it say how many people constitute "a party."
Ma, who is in his 50s and twice divorced, was put under house arrest last September. Sociologists Li Yinhe and Fang Gang wrote blog articles last month in defence of Ma, arguing that citizens' rights to consensual sexual activities in private should be constitutionally protected.
I do not endorse Ma's sexual orgies, which were said to involve multiple "swinging games" at his dormitory, but that's his alternative lifestyle. Indeed, such games betray love and marriage, but now that we already tolerate one-night stands and extramarital affairs between two consenting adults - which all betray love and marriage - why should we punish threesomes or other arrangements?
Ma was indeed ridiculous in saying that swinging games (often in the form of threesomes or moresomes) were "more decent" than secret extramarital affairs, but it's equally ludicrous to criminalize the former while tolerating the latter. Threesomes are not necessarily more licentious than twosomes. It's here that the criminal law is flawed.
What's more, Article 301 comes under the chapter about obstructing "public order of society." No evidence has pointed to Ma or his partners having their parties in public.
I am not defending Ma's way of life, but men are not saints, they err. Swingers parties or threesomes only leave men (and women) more miserable in their misguided pursuit of pleasures. But it's human to err, let's talk to them, understand them, help them. No one is a saint, everyone needs to be helped one way or another.
At any rate, Ma is much less noxious than Wang Cheng (not his real name), a married official of Anqing City of Anhui Province, in his late 40s, who has vowed to have sex with 800 women (eight being a lucky number for Chinese). He claimed that he already had slept with more than 500, paying some of them with money he himself had received in bribes as an official, reported Xin'an Evening News yesterday. He is now being investigated.
Last month Wang's wife happened upon videos of his sexual games but decided to swallow the bitterness.
Her best friend, however, reported Wang to local prosecutors in her self-righteous move to straighten things out for the sad wife.
Thanks to this brave friend, we now know what Wang said in 2003: "This year I must have sex with 56 women, and at least two of them must be good girls." He knew most available women would be bad apples.
The irony is that Wang would only be convicted, if convicted at all, for taking bribes. Having sex with more than 500 women isn't punishable under law.
A local court in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province, said the trial that opened yesterday was not open to public because it involves the privacy of the professor and other defendants, the youngest being a woman born in 1983.
Prosecutors charged professor Ma Yaohai from a college in Nanjing for violating Article 301 of China's Criminal Law by organizing orgies from 2007 to 2009. The article punishes those who organize or repeatedly participate in a party or parties of licentious activities, but it does not define "licentious activities," nor does it say how many people constitute "a party."
Ma, who is in his 50s and twice divorced, was put under house arrest last September. Sociologists Li Yinhe and Fang Gang wrote blog articles last month in defence of Ma, arguing that citizens' rights to consensual sexual activities in private should be constitutionally protected.
I do not endorse Ma's sexual orgies, which were said to involve multiple "swinging games" at his dormitory, but that's his alternative lifestyle. Indeed, such games betray love and marriage, but now that we already tolerate one-night stands and extramarital affairs between two consenting adults - which all betray love and marriage - why should we punish threesomes or other arrangements?
Ma was indeed ridiculous in saying that swinging games (often in the form of threesomes or moresomes) were "more decent" than secret extramarital affairs, but it's equally ludicrous to criminalize the former while tolerating the latter. Threesomes are not necessarily more licentious than twosomes. It's here that the criminal law is flawed.
What's more, Article 301 comes under the chapter about obstructing "public order of society." No evidence has pointed to Ma or his partners having their parties in public.
I am not defending Ma's way of life, but men are not saints, they err. Swingers parties or threesomes only leave men (and women) more miserable in their misguided pursuit of pleasures. But it's human to err, let's talk to them, understand them, help them. No one is a saint, everyone needs to be helped one way or another.
At any rate, Ma is much less noxious than Wang Cheng (not his real name), a married official of Anqing City of Anhui Province, in his late 40s, who has vowed to have sex with 800 women (eight being a lucky number for Chinese). He claimed that he already had slept with more than 500, paying some of them with money he himself had received in bribes as an official, reported Xin'an Evening News yesterday. He is now being investigated.
Last month Wang's wife happened upon videos of his sexual games but decided to swallow the bitterness.
Her best friend, however, reported Wang to local prosecutors in her self-righteous move to straighten things out for the sad wife.
Thanks to this brave friend, we now know what Wang said in 2003: "This year I must have sex with 56 women, and at least two of them must be good girls." He knew most available women would be bad apples.
The irony is that Wang would only be convicted, if convicted at all, for taking bribes. Having sex with more than 500 women isn't punishable under law.
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