North Koreans Like Porn Too!

A common theme in all classic dystopian literature is the failure of the omnipotent state to suppress the human desire for sex and love.  I am sure despite the Orwellian regime's best effort at attempting to control every thought and desire their people have, no amount of brainwashing can stop the people of North Korea from wanting to look at porn to get themselves off.

I just thought this a humorous report, but a good reminder that the people up there are still like everyone else in the world.  As long as it is practiced safely, sex is natural and sex is healthy.  Don't let your government tell you otherwise. (source here)

Foreign pornography is spreading in North Korean market, Radio Free Asia in the U.S. reported Friday. 

Quoting a North Korean source, the radio station said the regime is trying to clamp down by distributing players that will only play North Korean-made DVDs and replacing parts of foreign players to stop them from being compatible, but an increasing number of people are looking for foreign videos. 

The bestsellers in the market are pornography from Japan, a resident in Hyesan, Yanggang Province, said. And many of the customers are teenagers. 

A source in North Pyongan Province said, "It's easy to buy a smuggled Chinese video player, and it's possible to reproduce DVDs at home with Chinese-made burners. Foreign porn has spread so widely that any home with a player usually has one or two porn DVDs." 

Parents in the North are concerned because there is no video ratings system in the North nor proper sex education for children, RFA added. 

"It's difficult for North Korean residents to watch foreign TV programs, but now a few enjoy foreign porn as well as South Korean soap operas on DVDs," a North Korean defector said.

That border with China is a problem.  The standard of living in China keeps going up and people in the North keep smuggling across information and technology outlawed in their own country.  Funny how there are people risking their lives to smuggle Japanese pornos across the Chinese / Korean border.  I wonder what these people would do if they found out people in South Korea can download whatever they want offline for free at anytime they please.

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