Guangzhou (CNS) -- The Ninth Guangzhou Sex Festival opens on November 12, with artwork exhibitions and catwalk shows conveying the natural and artificial beauty of all things sexual.
This year's sex festival filled a 4,000-square-meter exhibition center with all art forms that celebrate sexual beauty, including the human body depicted in oil paintings and traditional Chinese paintings, sex-themed pottery, the Tibetan Tangka, embroidery and silver accessories, as well as live body painting and pole dance performances.
The provincial family planning office that organized it also contributed a popular body art photography retrospective featuring 50 images of professional models.
The most popular items, vividly depicting erotic poses, were brought by Dr. Jian Shang-Chi from the Graduate School of Human Sexuality of Shu-Te University who teaches sculpting at the National Taiwan University of the Arts. These works, though bold and controversial, are acceptable from the specific perspective of artistic freedom, said a local visitor.
A special exhibition on the Hakka sex culture was another highlight of the festival, displaying marriage contracts, wedding furniture, and Hakka sculptures from the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911).
Mainly middle-aged locals and young couples hovered around the erotic product stands and the always crowded T-stage.
The festival also extended its activities to school campuses by distributing sex education brochures that promote the notion of healthy sex and sexual morals among juveniles.
