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The Naked And The Dead: Chinese Government Cracks Down On Stripping At Funerals

Hank Berrien

In China, where some villagers in rural areas believe that a bigger turnout at funerals honors the dead, they’ve taken a rather unusual path to increase attendance: hire strippers to perform at the funeral.

The phenomenon has upset the Chinese government enough that in January the Ministry of Culture announced it would target “striptease” and other “obscene, pornographic, and vulgar performances” at funerals, weddings and traditional Chinese New Year public gatherings, according to the Telegraph.

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