{"id":648,"date":"2010-05-21T09:58:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T09:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/05\/roaring-virile-fire-doused-by-china-commies.html"},"modified":"2010-05-21T09:58:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T09:58:33","slug":"roaring-virile-fire-doused-by-china-commies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/05\/roaring-virile-fire-doused-by-china-commies.html","title":{"rendered":"Roaring Virile Fire doused by China commies"},"content":{"rendered":"

A dispatch from the front lines of social progress in the People’s Republic of China:<\/a><\/p>\n

In private, the professor, Ma Yaohai, 53, led a life that became intolerable to Chinese authorities: for the past six years, he was a member of informal swingers clubs that practiced group sex and partner swapping. In online chat rooms, his handle was Roaring Virile Fire. He organized and engaged in at least 18 orgies, most of them in the two-bedroom apartment in Nanjing where he lived with his mother, according to prosecutors.
\nOn Thursday, a court sentenced the randy Mr. Ma to three and a half years in prison, a severe penalty for a crime that the Chinese government calls “crowd licentiousness.” Mr. Ma, now China’s most famous swinger, remains defiant and plans to appeal, saying his sex life is his own business, not subject to the law as long as he causes no social disturbance, according to his lawyer, Yao Yong’an. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think I must get busy creating a cocktail or an entree called Roaring Virile Fire. What’s your Chinese chat-room handle? Mine must be Kvetchy Tippling Nebbish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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