Erotic reader silenced but not forgotten

• Source: Global Times
• [08:13 November 04 2009]
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The website, which had 500,000 registered users across the country, was shut down.

About 1,900 sites were shut down amid the nationwide crackdown on erotic websites in January, the police said.

China had shut down 44,000 domestic sites and removed 440,000 pornographic live-streaming videos and arrested 868 suspects in 524 criminal cases last year, according to the Xinhua News Agency.

But audio books with erotic titles are still accessible at www. yscn8.com, a website established in September that provides "healthy audio books to the children".

"Admittedly, some erotic titles are more appealing to readers, but we would censor the content before offering audio books to our readers," a manager of the website surnamed Qiu, told the Global Times yesterday.

An audio book titled "Love emerges after being raped" topped the ranking after recording 52,732 hits on the website.

Liu Renwen, a professor of the National Institute of Law at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times Tuesday that online audio materials spread pornography.

"People nowadays use Internet instead of books to spread pornography, which do more harm to the morals of young people," he said.