government crackdown on funeral strippers (pics)

[JosephDredd]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...wn-rural-attract-mourners-death-a8220866.html

China vows to crack down on funeral strippers

Some hire them to boost numbers as high attendance seen as a way of honouring the deceased

China has launched a fresh crackdown on funeral strippers.

The Ministry of Culture said it would target "obscene, pornographic and vulgar performances" at funerals and weddings.

It followed reports in the state run Global Times newspaper about roaring crowds, applauding and cursing as women performed at funerals.

The tabloid claimed that they sauntered into the crowd and rubbed mens crotches, while occasionally reminding them not to take pictures.

The culture ministry set up hotlines to offer monetary rewards for those who report "funeral misdeeds" in 19 cities in Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu and Hebei provinces.

Some rural communities in China believe hiring performers can increase attendance at funerals, with high attendance seen as a way of honouring the deceased.

In a bid to show off their disposable income and boost numbers, some households pay out more than their annual incomes for strippers, but also actors, singers and comedians, the Global Times reported.

Beijing first banned funeral strippers in 2015, after two cases where exotic dancers staged "obscene performances."

At the funeral in Hebei province, two strippers “wearing revealing clothes danced on a stage at a public square in our village at night,” an eyewitness said at the time.

Authorities also arrested six exotic dancers at the funeral of an elderly resident in Handan.

Five people were detained in Jiangsu in 2006 for "obscene performances" following striptease acts at a farmer's funeral, where 200 people were said to have attended.

One expert quoted in the Global Times report partly attributed the practice to fertility worship.

"In some local cultures, dancing with erotic elements can be used to convey the deceased's wishes of being blessed with many children," Huang Jianxing, a university professor, said.

"I don't take the performances as 'trash of traditional rural culture.' It has an inheritance of local civilization," he added.

"Rather than simply decrying them, it is more important for the authorities to provide the rural people with finer cultural products."

The first crackdown happened in 2015 in Beijing

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...using-exotic-dancers-to-attract-10199606.html

Funeral strippers: Beijing cracks down on 'uncivilised' use of exotic dancers to attract mourners to ceremonies in rural China

Many believe that a large attendance is a sign of honour for the deceased, but the ministry of culture has outlawed the 'obscene performances'


Be kind. Try to live a virtuous life. Then, when the time comes, crowds may come to your funeral. In rural China, apparently, it also helps to attract mourners if you hire strippers.

But no more, Beijing has had enough. The practice is being outlawed by the ministry of culture. Xinhua news agency reported a statement from the ministry that said the presence of strippers was “uncivilised”.

The crackdown – in which police may break up funerals where strippers perform – follows two recent cases. In the northern Hebei province and eastern Jiangsu, exotic dancers were invited to stage what were described as “obscene performances”. Stripping remains illegal in China. “From time to time, ‘stripteases’ and other illegal performances have occurred in the countryside,” the ministry statement said, according to the AFP news agency.

At a funeral in Hebei province, two strippers “wearing revealing clothes danced on a stage at a public square in our village at night,” an eyewitness told the state-run Global Times. “They first danced passionately and then took off their clothes piece by piece. Behind them, an electronic screen was displaying a picture of the deceased with elegiac couplets on either side.”


The ministry reported one case from Handan earlier this year when six exotic dancers had arrived at a funeral of an elderly resident, only for the authorities to arrest and fine the troupe’s leader.

The funeral strip show is not without precedent. In 2006 five people were arrested for the “obscene performances” in Jiangsu. The arrests, in Donghai county, followed striptease acts at a farmer’s funeral. Two hundred people were said to have attended.

“Striptease used to be a common practice at funerals in Donghai’s rural areas to allure viewers,” Xinhua reported at the time. “Local villagers believe that the more people who attend the funeral, the more the dead person is honoured.”

The ministry said it will tighten control over rural culture, where the strip shows have been thriving because of a general lack of other cultural events.

People have complained in social media for some time about lewd shows at funerals. Many rural people believe that a large attendance at funerals is a sign of honour for the deceased.

Woody Allen’s immortal one-liner – “The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you” – may no longer apply.

 

[JosephDredd]

 

[faustian]

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

I can only hope my friends love me enough to hire funeral strippers.
I'd gladly die ahead of all of them to make it happen

 

[kuromusha]

Commies

 

[Plutoburn]

Commies

Ironically, the legacy of communism in China is people's insatiable appetite to get ahead and be rich.

 

[Amerikuracana]

The West should have appreciated it's culture more, and been more protectionist with itself. Most of the rest of the world is in violent disarray or complete weirdness.. IMHO.

It was going to well, so they had to start selling our kids here complete fail urban decay culture.

 

[Organic Damage]

Funny, this practice is the sort of thing you'd have expected to be one of those "weird Japan" stories.

It's interesting there's apparently a historical cultural precedent for this. I read somewhere (probably here) they also hire naked models to advertise random shit like cars in malls too.

 

[JosephDredd]

Funny, this practice is the sort of thing you'd have expected to be one of those "weird Japan" stories.

It's interesting there's apparently a historical cultural precedent for this. I read somewhere (probably here) they also hire naked models to advertise random shit like cars in malls too.

I was reading an article about China's craziness and it was right out of 2000A.D. the only thing I remember now is vans driving around collecting organs from people.

 

[5crew]

Before I clicked in, I expected Taiwan. Quite surprised it was China.

 

[Revolver]

Funeral strippers has to be one of the greatest ideas ever.

 

[SMillard]

Well this would definitely encourage me to go to more funerals, with a shitload of $1 bills in my pocket.

Wonder how much they charge for a "coffin dance"

 

[nostradumbass]

Strippers at a funeral?

 

[SMillard]

Funny, this practice is the sort of thing you'd have expected to be one of those "weird Japan" stories.

It's interesting there's apparently a historical cultural precedent for this. I read somewhere (probably here) they also hire naked models to advertise random shit like cars in malls too.

selling random shit is nothing new. i remember once watching some Venezuelan show on Spanish TV watching a woman in high heels and a string bikini pushing a vacuum cleaner. Gotta say, suddenly had me ponder my vacuuming needs.

 

[fallable]

Pallbearer's and pole dancers. The one gets you up after the other gets you down.

 

[fallable]

It's better to be lap danced by one than carried out by six.

 

[jojoRed]

Next step is to have hookers at funerals, why be sad when you can come and be happy?

 

[marioh]

That would certainly encourage me to go to more funerals, even of people i dont know.

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

As much as I like stripper and hate funerals, this still doesn't sound appealing.

But fuck the government for shutting it down.

 

[Phr3121]

What an awesome idea...