China is cracking young women who write gay erotic

“I warned that when talking about it,” he wrote, before he revealed the parts of the day, he said he was arrested for publishing gay erotic.

“I will never forget – to be escorted to the car, with humiliation to scan the naked to study against strangers, sitting in the chair, shaking her heart.”

Anan Yongfu Pinping, between the ages of the age of eight, has been arrested for publishing gay erotic fictions that have shared accounts on the Weibo Weibese Social Media Platform. While the authors told their experiences, dozens of lawyers offer support.

At least 30 writers, women aged to almost 20 years have been arrested across the country, from February, a lawyer who defended him to BBC. Many are waiting for a bond or trial, but some are still in custody. Another lawyer told him to ask him that he called more BBC assistants.

Haitang published in the city of Literature, a well-known “Danmei” platform hosted by Taiwan, a genre called erotic love and fiction of boys.

Think about a gay version of fifty gray tones: BDSM relationship becomes happy. This is often between historical, fantastic or scientific settings. He has worked passionately throughout these years, especially among young Chinese women.

These authors are accused of “China Pornography Law” to produce and distribute dark materials “. The writers who earn profits can be prison for more than 10 years.

The law aims to “gay sexual or other explicit descriptions of other sexual perversion”. Heterosexual representations often have more leieway.

Although the authors of heterosexual erotica were imprisoned in China, the observers say that the gender is much less of the censorship. Gay erotica, more subversive, seems to be more concerned about the authority. The volunteers from a support group for Haitang writers said BBC police also questioned some readers.

Those who reported that they were arrested refused to interview, fearing the consequences. Police in Lanzhou in the northwestern city, accused of driving this crack, did not answer BBC.

Online, crack has given a discussion – and a strange push against the law.

“Does the sex really need to be embarrassed?” A Weibo user asked, arguing that the laws against Chinese obscenity are not touched. Another wrote that they never decide anyone dark because they do not control the narrative. The wise laws also stated that they consider “obscene” or 5,000 views that are just gradualizing as a “distribution” crime to arrest the creative bars.

Beijing made enough uncomfortable discussions that have disappeared: # Haitatahorsarested saw more than 30 million times before we censores around Weibo. Messages that offer legal advice are gone. The history of Chinese news has been taken. Writers accounts, and some handles are also disappearing.

After rounding Anan Yongfu’s messages, he deleted it, and wrote another, thanking friends and accepting the law. Then he deleted the handle.

Before that last post: “I was always a good girl of my parents’ eyes. That day, but I brought them to shame.

These women have long worked in China’s shadows, where homosexuality and eroticism are stigmatized. In view of police research, they face social consequences that are as harsh as legal.

“At that moment, everything I felt was embarrassing,” A writer published his Weibo handles “The world is a great psychiatric hospital.” He said the police had taken out of the university class, and his classmates saw him as they continued to look for his bedroom.

“I talked to my word with the word on a keyboard. But once I went to the south, it’s not any importance. People treated me the money without working without money.”

Another had polite police, advising a lawyer to talk and return his “illegal earnings” to reduce his sentence. “I’m only 20 years old. So young, and I’ve already spoiled my life so early.”

A third said: “I never imagined a day once all the words written once I would come back when all the words would come.”

He has not questioned Danmo’s novel for 20 years, but the crack will not stop. “That’s how I find happiness. And I can’t leave the connections I’ve done with the community.”

Inspired by the Japanese love manga of boys, Danmi was created as a sub-genre in the 1990s. It has become very successful with some novels that appear on international bestseller lists.

In 2021, 60 of them were considered inappropriate for film and television. The most expensive IP sold 40 million yuan ($ 5.6 million; £ 4.1 million). Some of the biggest Chinese stars, like Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo, began streaming shows based on dancing novels.

In short, it is the royal rebel of pop culture – it is very popular for the honor discussion.

It is Haitang’s offer, as the flower that flows in Mandarin, pink every shade.

Inappropriate, Haitang and Danmi are flowering women’s lonely spaces, even focusing on the protagonists of the male. The sexual desire of women usually creates slowly, coded by Danmei, a creative outing – women can write women’s desire about other women.

This is, in fact, says that Danmi is “subversive”, says Liang Gek, who teaches SO digital Sociology in London. It allows women to remove “gender realities” with marriage and motherhood.

For example, Danmi in the stories, men can be pregnant and enjoy being weak – the contrasts of different relationships are fighting in real life.

“Danmei thought of all these potential risks of traditional romantic romantic heterosexual”, a writer who has been active in the world of Danmi in a decade.

Danmi novels are not without their criticism, because some scenes with extreme and violent. “As a parent, many of us can accept what our children read like such novels, even writing?” Asked a Weibo user.

The age of the authors has also been concerned: BBC said one of them said all of them started reading and writing before they were 18 years old.

The problem is to recognize the community and give the address, he said: A writer Danme shared his last name, which is a problem for all adult content, as China is limited by the content.

But Danmi is especially more and more of the attack that in the last decade of Beijing launched several “cleaning” campaigns on the Internet. In 2018, the author of Danmi was jailed for 10 years because he sold 7,000 copies of the book called Occupied Title.

Marriage and birth rates PLummet and Chinese leaders encourage young people to rejuvenate the young man, so Danmi State Ratcheted Study, GK says.

“The Chinese government wants to promote traditional family values ​​and danmi novels are seen as women who are willing to have children,” he explains Dr Gek.

In less than a year it’s a second wave of mass arrests, late last year, about 50 Haitang writers were judged. Yuan was prisons for almost five years that won about 1.85 million won about 1 five years.

Two cracks are similar, depending on a lawyer who replaced some of the plaintts last year, but this time, however, those with minor implications were not planned. “

A lawyer offered by free legal advice said more than 150 people asked for consultations in two days. Many who contact him has not yet charged – they were scorned.

“This is a classic offshore fishing,” says he wrote a lawyer to help writers of Haitang. The title refers to the passage of local police – Lanzhou was called the writers in several places, and certainly beyond jurisdiction.

Several reported to fly from pocket to Lanzhou. One published that he won from the two Haitang books for the flight.

Last year, all the arrests were police in Chinese East Jixi County.

Local loces of the lodgings have previously made income through fines, sometimes forcing the warning from the central government. Cyber ​​crimes are particularly considered “while claiming a local reader was damaged,” he says lawyers.

Danmei writers know tolerance. This is why the skirt of censorship with metaphors. “Making dinner” means sex; The “kitchen tool” is code for male genitals.

However, the last fault was surprised. “A phone call broke my dreams,” what a description described a writer’s call from the police.

The police were accused of pursuing the phone without authority. They said it was assessed by adding opinions per chapter: the method argued that the reader was excessive.

DANMEI was published: “I’ve been writing only for a few readers. Then more than 300,000 clicks were stacked and 4,000 yuan were sitting in my account because of the evidence of my crime.”

It is difficult to know that this is to know that he writes the end of their careers.

“I could return, I would still choose to write. And I will write writing,” he wrote Sijin de Sijin.

“Right now, I’ll see the laws beyond the words of the page, and I can only see money saving outlets, the girl who sold him to buy a feather, sculpted a path through fate. I hope everyone has a direct opportunity.”

Additional report by Grace Tsoi in Hong Kong