Attention Horndogs: Here Are the 5 Most Viral Porn Videos From China

Though pornography is blocked on China’s internet, that hasn’t kept amateur videos from occasionally slipping past censors and proliferating online. The Chinese internet has a particular fascination with these hobbyist productions, the most famous of which were filmed (by participants or onlookers) in adventurous locales like a city street or a Uniqlo fitting room.

However, in China, the production, distribution, and purchase of sexual content are punishable by fines and years-long prison sentences. As such, these popular porn videos have resulted in arrests, deportations, job loss, and other very, very serious consequences.

That being said, the ban on pornography hasn’t stopped many people from accessing X-rated content. In 2015, 80% of men aged 18 to 29 and 51% of women in the same age range reported having watched pornographic material in the past year, according to a survey by Professor Pan Suiming at Renmin University.

Below, we recap five examples of viral pornographic content to make it onto the country’s heavily monitored online space.

1. Uniqlo Sex Tape

This minute-long clip, filmed in 2015 in a Uniqlo fitting room in Beijing’s trendy district of Sanlitun, is perhaps China’s best-known amateur sex tape.

The racy footage, filmed with an iPhone, shows a man and a nude woman having intercourse against a changing room mirror as the audio “Welcome to the Uniqlo store in Sanlitun” plays over the store’s PA system.

Millions of people saw the clip before it was purged from Chinese social media. It was so popular that visitors flocked to the Sanlitun location to see the infamous Uniqlo for themselves.

The Uniqlo sex tape resulted in the arrests of five people and a temporary ban on the word ‘Uniqlo’ on Chinese social media. It also led to a crackdown on amateur porn — which the government said went “against core socialist values.”

2. Ikea Exhibitionist

In 2020, one brave exhibitionist made waves online with a video showing her masturbating in a busy Chinese Ikea. The woman, wearing only an oversized button-down shirt and a pair of heels, was shown pleasuring herself on various showroom couches and beds as oblivious customers walked past.

This solo video, which clocks in at more than 16 minutes, resulted in considerable speculation online about where the Ikea outlet was located in China. Most netizens seem in agreement that the video was filmed in Guangdong due to the Cantonese announcements that can be heard in the background.

As you might expect, the folks at Ikea China were not amused by the video and issued a public condemnation that read in part, “Ikea calls on consumers to visit our stores in a civilized and orderly manner and jointly maintain an acceptable shopping environment.”

But, as Alexander Pan wrote on the pop culture website GOAT, “To be fair, Ikea is all about ‘doing it yourself,’ so it was only a matter of time before someone took that a step beyond just putting furniture together.”

3. Kappa Girl’s Blowjob

‘Kappa Girl,’ one of China’s most famous home-grown porn stars, rose to fame in 2008 after a 12-minute video of her giving a blowjob became widely distributed on the web. The woman was later identified as Lin Jiani, a salesperson at a Kappa store in Shanghai.

Lin capitalized on her newfound fame by selling interviews, bar appearances, and modeling gigs online for up to 50,000 RMB (7,276 USD). However, she was fired from her job at Kappa after the video came to light and was later detained by Shanghai police.

London-based adult production company Harmony Films reportedly offered Lin a contract in the hopes that China would eventually open up to the pornography industry. Unfortunately for them, 15 years later, it’s still banned.

4. Deported After Drunken Sex

In 2018, a Spanish national was deported after a bout of drunken public sex with a Chinese woman on the streets of Chengdu, a city in Southwest China.

As they coupled behind the inadequate cover of a palm tree, a raucous crowd yelled jiayou — or ‘add oil,’ a common term of encouragement — and ‘pa pa pa,’ mimicking the sound of sex. Videos and pictures of the incident soon went viral on Weibo, China’s top microblogging platform.

The horny duo’s fun ended when the police showed up, though. The man reportedly spent 10 days in detention before being shipped back to Spain.

5. Classroom Fun

In 2011, a student at Hebei Polytechnic University leaked a video of two other students coupling in a lecture hall. Caught by closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance, some netizens believed the 15-minute video represented the “yearning for love and defiance of restraint” among the post-’90s generation.

We can’t help but feel bad for the students in this video… luckily for the girl, though, her face wasn’t shown on camera.

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