{{Short description|Cancelled Chinese sex theme park}} [[File:Love sign at Foreigners Street, Chongqing.JPG|thumb|"Love" sign at [[Foreigners' Street]]]]
'''Love Land''' ({{zh|s=重庆性公园|l=Chongqing sex theme park}}) would have been the first [[Human sexuality|sex]] [[theme park]] in [[China]];<ref name="BBC">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8053596.stm|title=China builds first sex theme park|date=May 16, 2009|publisher=[[BBC News]]|accessdate=2009-05-17}}</ref><ref name="guardian">{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/may/15/china-sex-theme-park-love-land | first=Tania | last=Branigan | title=China to open first sex theme park | newspaper=[[The Guardian]] | date=15 May 2009 }}</ref> the [[PRC Government]] suspended its construction in [[Chongqing]] in May 2009 and ordered it demolished for being vulgar and explicit.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.chinahush.com/2009/05/17/chongqing-sex-park-love-land-dismantled-for-being-vulgar-and-explicit/ | title=Chongqing "Sex Park" (Love Land) Dismantled for being Vulgar and Explicit | publisher=China Hush | date=17 May 2009 | accessdate=22 September 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/18/china-love-land-sex-theme_n_204586.html | title=China Love Land: Sex Theme Park Demolished Before Debut | newspaper=[[The Huffington Post]] | date=18 June 2009 }}</ref> The park was to include displays of giant [[genitalia]] and naked bodies, and host an exhibition on the [[history of human sexuality]] along with sex technique workshops.<ref name="BBC" />
The theme park was originally due to be opened in October 2009, but was demolished in May 2009, as it was deemed to be a negative influence on [[Chinese society]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/lifestylenews/view/430040/1/.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130119111650/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/lifestylenews/view/430040/1/.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 19, 2013|title=China builds first sex theme park|date=May 18, 2009|publisher=[[ChannelNewsAsia]]|accessdate=2009-05-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/chinese-sex-theme-park-knocked-down-after-photos-released | work=[[Fox News]] | title=Chinese Sex Theme Park Knocked Down After Photos Released | date=2009-05-18}}</ref><ref name="NYT">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/world/asia/19china.html?_r=1&ref=global-home|title=Chinese City Is Chilly to a Sex Theme Park |last=Wong|first=Edward|date=2009-05-18|work=[[New York Times]]|accessdate=2009-05-19}}</ref> The attraction would have been near [[Foreigners' Street]], an amusement park that includes the world's largest toilet, the [[Porcelain Palace]], which itself was purged of anything seen as vulgar by the Chinese authorities.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/42-27996556/chongqing-sweeps-off-vulgarities-to-purify-foreigners | title=Chongqing sweeps off vulgarities to purify Foreigners Street | publisher=[[Branded Entertainment Network|Corbis]] | work=Corbis Images | date=21 May 2009 | accessdate=21 September 2014 }}</ref>
==See also== *[[Sex museum]] *[[Love Land (South Korea)]] *[[Sexuality in China]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
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