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That is how it should be. Sexuality for enjoyment not profit. I don't have a problem with this. Now if any of these people were not making money off this and just publishing it for free and got in trouble yes that would be something I'd be against and think it an area of improvement China needs to work on but also an understandable one given how rapidly Chinese society has progressed in just the last half century. I am confident that with time and effort by good comrades inside China that any such problems will in time be rectified. (Also I suppose I do have mixed feelings given the amount of capitalist exploitation China allows to disallow women to make money in this way which is relatively harmless and given they probably don't have great financial means... an imperfect situation all around)
You don't have a problem with sentencing people to 10 years in prison for writing and selling gay smut?
I do think 10 years is quite excessive but I also think western media would lie about that so I'm going to assume that with good behavior and reform they'd probably actually be out in much less than half that.
Secondly I don't presume that this was per se special punishment because of the orientation, non-hetero nature of the works and that the law provides for the same for straight works. I admit there are likely problems with selective enforcement as with any law like this that runs into existing societal biases and prejudices so I think that would be another argument in favor of leniency but again I don't really believe that sentencing is necessarily accurate or the whole story.
Thirdly we don't know all the details about the ages of the characters or any aggravating factors about the content or the nature of payments or whatever.
Even half a year in prison for something that small is absolutely barbaric