China Bans Women From Seductively Eating Bananas On Live Internet Streams

For as weird, backward, Puritan, and regressive our culture’s stance is on sex, be thankful we aren’t in China.

Because in China, the government believes even a woman live-streaming herself coyly eating a banana is too overtly sexual for its men to watch.

So they banned the practice entirely. From The BBC:

New regulations mean that live-streaming sites must monitor all their output round-the-clock to ensure nothing untoward is going on, keeping an eye out for any “erotic” banana-eating, according to New Express Daily.

The move is the authorities’ latest attempt to clamp down on “inappropriate and erotic” online content, state-controlled CCTV reports. In April, the Ministry of Culture announced it was investigating a number of popular live-streaming platforms for allegedly hosting pornographic or violent content that “harms social morality”.

News of the banana ban has prompted thousands of users to chime in on Chinese social media. Some are more concerned with the young women choosing to take part in live streaming, but others are a bit baffled by how the rules will be enforced. “How do they decide what’s provocative when eating a banana?” one person asks. Another wonders: “Can male live-streamers still eat them?”

Other parts of the world are weird.

[Via The BBC]