Virtual China

Everyone says sex makes the Internet go round; maybe it’s just a little more obvious in China?  Sandwiched in between Tianya photo posts on Qing dynasty-era embroidery and government officials planting trees is one of Tianya’s most popular ongoing photo threads of the year: an adult industry exhibition in Las Vegas. Over 400,000 have viewed the pages in the last three months (one suspects many of them are return visits), almost 3,000 have written comments. Lots of conversation about how big the photos should be in order to get the maximum effect but not to slow down the load rate too much; some requests for specific porn stars, by name.  The author has promised to slowly display his treasures from the 2006, 2005, and 2004 show, and readers are eagerly awaiting. This about sums it up: