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PRC couple made love in Uniqlo Beijing

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Chinese censors summon Weibo and Tencent bosses over Uniqlo clothes store sex tape


Communist authorities said distribution of tape on the internet was 'against socialist core values'

PUBLISHED : Thursday, 16 July, 2015, 1:51pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 16 July, 2015, 8:04pm

Agence France-Presse in Beijing

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A Chinese woman poses for photo outside the Uniqlo flagship store where a steamy video purportedly taken inside one of its fitting rooms showing a couple apparently having sex in Beijing. Photo: AP

China’s Communist authorities have said the distribution of a sex tape on the internet purportedly shot in a fitting room in one of Beijing’s trendiest shopping malls is “against socialist core values”, after the footage went viral.

The Cyberspace Administration of China said it had summoned executives from the country’s top social network service providers after censors took the clip down.

The footage shows a young couple, a man in black and a naked woman, apparently having sex in the changing room of a Uniqlo store in the capital.

The clip rapidly went viral on China’s Twitter-like Weibo and mobile messaging service WeChat, with scores of people going to take selfies outside the outlet, some mimicking the poses seen in the footage.

The administration ordered senior managers of Weibo’s operator Sina and Tencent, owner of WeChat, to cooperate in an investigation, the agency said in a statement.

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The video of a couple having sex at the Uniqlo store in Beijing went viral on the internet. Photo: SCMP Pictures“

The viral circulation of the obscene fitting room video on the internet has severely violated socialist core values,” it cited an unnamed official as saying.

The organisation also suggested that the incident could have been a publicity stunt.

“Highly concerned Web users have reprimanded the acts that are suspected vulgar marketing or event marketing and have called for severe punishment,” the official said.

Sina and Tencent must “further improve their social responsibility awareness”, the official added.

China’s Communist Party oversees a vast censorship system, dubbed the Great Firewall, that aggressively blocks sites or snuffs out content and commentary that is pornographic, violent or deemed politically sensitive.

Popular social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are inaccessible in the country, as is YouTube.

Several Western news organisations have accused Beijing of blocking access to their websites in the past, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg.

Uniqlo “firmly” denied the video was a marketing ploy in a statement posted on its website.

“As a responsible international brand, Uniqlo... would like to ask consumers to abide by social ethics, maintain social justice and correctly and properly use the fitting spaces provided by Uniqlo stores,” it said.


 

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Tencent, Sina reprimanded for spread of Uniqlo fitting room sex tape

Staff Reporter 2015-07-16 14:53 (GMT+8)

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People taking selfies outside the Sanlitun branch of Uniqlo in Beijing, July 16. (Photo/CFP)

On July 15, the State Internet Information Office questioned executives from internet giants Sina and Tencent with regard to a video of a man and a woman having sex in the female changing room of the Sanlitun branch of Uniqlo in Beijing, which surfaced online on July 14 and quickly went viral, according to Duowei News, a media outlet run by overseas Chinese.

A representative from the office said that Tencent's WeChat social messaging service and Sina's Weibo social media platform were the main ways that the viral video, which was filmed by the man involved, spread and that many internet users had taken the opportunity to spread advertisements and even computer viruses. The representative urged both companies to take their social responsibilities more seriously as well as requesting that the public refrain from spreading pornographic videos.

Screenshots of the video circulating online show a naked woman leaning against the door of the changing room, while the man stands behind her filming. The intercom of the Sanlitun store can be heard in the background of the video, informing customers that there are no changing rooms on the first floor of the store, while the man tells the woman to kiss him, that he'll be her husband and asks her to say they'll be together, according to CNN.

The video, which was labeled to make it look like an advertisement in some instances, has provoked a range of reactions online, with some internet users suggesting it might be a marketing ploy by Uniqlo. Uniqlo has denied this, however, and called for customers to behave themselves in the changing rooms of their stores.

One internet user even jokingly suggested that Hong Kong Canadian actor and musician Edison Chen might have been the instigator of the sex tape, as, by coincidence, he'd posted a promotional message to his Weibo on July 12 reading, "Who is in Beijing tonight? Sanlitun? JUICE BEIJING? I'll see you at 12:30pm at the branch!"

Chen had to step back from the Hong Kong film industry in 2008 after photographs of him having sex with several well-known Hong Kong actors, including Gillian Chung, Bobo Chan, Rachel Ngan and Cecilia Cheung, surfaced online.

The Weibo accounts of the alleged perpetrators have also been published online, although the two account holders in question reject claims they are the ones in the video.

Subsequently a WeChat chat log, reportedly between the woman featured in the video and a close friend, was revealed, suggesting that the woman and man featured in the video were not dating and that it was their first encounter.

The store was operating as normal the day after the footage was shot, despite the stream of people outside taking selfies with the storefront logo. The customer flow returned to normal shortly after an initial surge at 11am, the store's opening time. An Australian tourist was among the crowd of people taking selfies, saying he'd just heard about the story after recently arriving in Beijing.

Despite the relative calm in the store, netizens reported staff feeling nervous and that the changing rooms are now being strictly regulated. Netizens reported that the space in the fitting rooms is quite narrow, but, at about 2 meters squared, it could just about fit two people. The curtain of the changing rooms button from the inside, making them hard to open from without.

Uniqlo is a Japanese apparel retailer founded in 1984 by Tadashi Yanai. The company's net profit for the period from September 2014 to May 2015 was up 52% on compared to the previous nine month period. The contribution of overseas stores, particularly in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, is significant, as all three have exceeded their targets. This has led to speculation that Uniqlo staged the video in order to remain a hot topic in the Chinese market, despite the official denial.

Just after midday on July 15, the official Weibo account of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau stated that the account had received several reports from people online and the bureau's Chaoyang district branch was looking into the incident.

Changing rooms are a grey area between private and public space, but it is likely that if located, the perpetrators would be charged with disturbing public order. If the video was leaked by them deliberately, this is equivalent to spreading pornography, and they would also be punished on this account. If Uniqlo is behind the video then these crimes would also fall on their shoulders.

Uniqlo's spokesperson is Serbian tennis ace Novak Djokovic, currently ranked world No. 1 in men's singles tennis, and he sported the Uniqlo logo for the first time during the French Open in May.

With the publicity around Djokovic after his recent win at Wimbledon, it's unlikely that Uniqlo would need to resort to such vulgar means to increase its profile in China, however.

A police source told Duowei that public security agencies will begin the investigation by looking into the source of the video online and if it really constitutes a pornographic video. The person who first spread the video online will be held responsibile for uploading pornography, whether it was one of the two people in the video or another web user, he said.

Han Xiao, a lawyer at Jingrun & Partners, said that, if Uniqlo is convicted then they could face a fine of anywhere from 200,000 yuan (US$32,214) to 1 million yuan (US$161,000) and their retail license could be revoked.

Consensual sex between two unmarried adults is legal in China. However, doing so in a public place amounts to public exposure and the two could be faced with five to ten days in prison.


 

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Uniqlo denies Sanlitun changing room sex tape a marketing stunt

Staff Reporter 2015-07-15 17:45

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A screenshot of the couple getting down to business in the changing room which has been circulated widely online. (Internet photo)

Uniqlo China made an official response on July 15 to a video of a man and woman having sex in one of the female changing rooms of its Sanlitun branch in Beijing. The company denied that it was a marketing ploy, stating that staffers reported the incident to the relevant authorities at the first opportunity and urged customers to behave appropriately in changing rooms, according to Duowei News, an outlet run by overseas Chinese.

The video, shot by the male in the video, shows the two having sex and the man can be heard telling the woman to kiss him, that he'll be her husband and asking her to say they'll be together, according to CNN. Another female voice can then be heard over the intercom making it clear that the location of the video was the Sanlitun store, according to the US news network.

The police are now looking into the incident, according to Duowei.

The minute-long video was widely circulated on social messaging app WeChat on the evening of July 14.

The video later spread to social networking app Weibo, causing a lot of controversy among internet users, with some suspecting it to be a marketing ploy devised by Uniqlo. The Weibo accounts of the alleged perpetrators have also been released, although the two account holders in question reject claims they are the ones in the video.

Subsequently a WeChat chat log, reportedly between the woman featured in the video and a close friend, was revealed, suggesting that the woman and man featured in the video were not dating and that it was their first encounter.

At 10:40am on July 15, the day after the footage was shot, just 20 minutes before the opening of the Sanlitun store, staff held a meeting while a group of people stood outside the store armed with their cameras in hand.

The store opened, as usual, punctually at 11am, however. Staff at the store said that the customer flow was normal and that, as it was a workday, there was not an abnormally large amount of customers. The person in charge of the changing room refused to answer any questions about the video footage shot in the changing room the previous night.

On July 15, the official Weibo account of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau stated that the account had received several reports from people online and the bureau's Chaoyang district branch was looking into the incident.


 

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The 'sex tape' taking China by storm


Yahoo and Agencies
July 17, 2015, 8:12 am

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Beijing police would very much like to know the identity of the person who owns this shoe. Photo: Supplied.

A couple’s daytime tryst in a Beijing Uniqlo changing room is raising eyebrows through out China and upsetting authorities.

The sex tape is one minute long and appears to be filmed by the lovers in question. It was posted to China’s main social media providers Weibo and WeChat, which are tightly controlled by state censorship.

China’s censors, who removed the video, officially reprimanded both companies but not before millions saw it.

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You too can own a piece of the Uniqlo changing room scandal for 35 yen. Photo: Supplied

The hook-ups' location is not known until the stores speakers make an announcement, but the star cross lovers don’t let that interruption ruin the moment.

In the video, the male can be heard whispering into the woman’s ear: "call me husband" and "say we'll be together."

Then, a blaring intercom voice says: "Dear customers, welcome to the Uniqlo store at Sanlitun".

After the incident, Uniqlo appears to have 'come out on top' despite the state sanction. Visitors are taking selfies on themselves outside branches and the video is going viral.

Online fashion store Tao Bao is also cashing in on the romp by selling commemorative T-shirts.

But China’s censors are failing to see the funny side.

"The viral circulation of the obscene fitting room video on the internet has severely violated socialist core values," unnamed official told local media.

The agency also suggested it was a publicity stunt, a claim the retail giant strongly denies.

Uniqlo said in a statement: "we would like to remind the public to uphold social morality and use our fitting rooms in a correct and proper way."

Beijing police are investigating the incident.


 

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China’s young people have spoken. And what they want is sex
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When a video of two people having sex in a Uniqlo shop went viral, the censors took it down. But China’s increasingly hedonistic youth will not go without
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hen Ang Lee’s film Lust, Caution came out in China in 2007, seven minutes of its infamous sex scenes were cut. The reason? They violated China’s obscenity laws. The Chinese population were not content. In response, they downloaded the original from pirate sites, to such an extent that headlines warned of computer viruses embedded in many of the sites that offered the film. Those living in southern China even crossed the border into Hong Kong to see the full-fat version. The people had spoken, and what they wanted was sex.

Flash forward to 2015 and, as I learned while researching my book Little Emperors and Material Girls: Sex and Youth in Modern China, something similar is happening. A viral video, which emerged on Chinese social media on Tuesday evening, has raced across the internet and set pulses racing. The one-minute clip shows a young man and woman having sex in the changing rooms of Uniqlo in Beijing’s shopping and nightlife hub Sanlitun. It’s already been viewed by millions.

The government’s online watchdog issued a statement registering its displeasure regarding the video’s content. It has also reprimanded China’s top internet firms for allowing the pornographic film to air, and censors are currently working overtime to remove any trace of it. Good luck to them.

As both the film and the video show, the government is not only out of sync with its own population, it’s not necessarily in control of it either. A sexual revolution has taken place in China over the past few decades which shows no signs of cooling down.

The strict ethical codes created under Confucius and continued under Chairman Mao are melting away in China’s bars and bedrooms. Rates of premarital sex attest to this. The latest official statistics, from 2012, say 70% engage in premarital sex, and if anything this figure has probably risen in the years since.

Of course, not everyone approves of these new found freedoms – according to a 2015 survey carried out by Shanghai Normal University, 40% of 14- to 35-year-olds are uncomfortable with the idea of premarital sex. That still leaves a sizeable majority who are fine with it, showing that attitudes and actions are roughly in tune.

In Sanlitun, where the offending Uniqlo is situated, a typical night out looks like this: head to a bar, start drinking, move on to karaoke or a club, continue drinking, stop at a street stall for some chuanr (kebab) or jianbing (pancake), finally stumble home, sometimes with someone.

The youth of China are no longer a shy bunch. They’re increasingly hedonistic and up for a good time.

This is at the more personal end. Then there’s what the government really don’t want you to see. Staying in Sanlitun, rows of sex stores line the street, enticing passersby with neon signs and latex displays. Alongside hair salons and massage parlours, they feature doe-eyed girls staring out at customers longingly, offering services that aren’t on the main menu. Drug dealers are also nearby, and trade is good. According to the National narcotics control commission, the domestic drug industry is worth a whopping $82bn annually. Three quarters of those who take drugs are under 35. And yet the government pretends none of this exists.

China will struggle to close Pandora’s box. As the expression goes, where there’s a will, there’s a way
China will struggle to close Pandora’s box. As the expression goes, where there’s a will, there’s a way. Sex shops and brothels that close tend to reopen or move underground, as has happened in Dongguan, China’s sin city. Officials can be paid to turn a blind eye – and plenty partake in these pleasures themselves. Earlier in May three Chinese officials were sacked over a sex tape blackmail case.

Then, as Lust, Caution highlights, censorship is not foolproof. In China it’s a well-oiled machine, but there are loopholes. Whether using carefully crafted memes, wordplay or going through virtual private networks, China’s 642 million internet users can and do find a lot of what they want.

If anything, China’s internet is driving the sexual revolution. Take the example of Muzi Mei, who created a sex blog in 2003. Mei’s warts-and-all account of her sex life was an instant hit, knocking Chairman Mao off the top search term list at one point. By the time it was shut down, scores of similar sites had emerged.

Pilgrimages are currently being made to the Sanlitun Uniqlo store, with people taking selfies to upload online – an easy way to discuss the news while hopefully bypassing the internet algorithms that might censor it. Online stores are selling jokey Uniqlo T-shirts too.

None of this will please the government. But the rest of the population is moving in one direction, and that’s towards greater sexual freedom and fun.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/16/china-sex-viral-video-uniqlo?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
 

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Old news. The link to the video is below but watch it on your iPhone versus a browser. Access denied if you're using a browser

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Uniqlo Sex Tape

Will this happen in Singapore?

[video=youtube;C2qLZvTwdVs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2qLZvTwdVs[/video]
 
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