“I’ve been warned not to talk about it,” the woman wrote, before revealing snippets of the day she says she was arrested for publishing gay erotica.

“I’ll never forget it - being escorted to the car in full view, enduring the humiliation of stripping naked for examination in front of strangers, putting on a vest for photos, sitting in the chair, shaking with fear, my heart pounding.”

The handle, Pingping Anan Yongfu, is among at least 8 in recent months which have shared accounts on Chinese social media platform Weibo of being arrested for publishing gay erotic fiction. As authors recounted their experiences, dozens of lawyers offered pro bono help.

At least 30 writers, nearly all of them women in their 20s, have been arrested across the country since February, a lawyer defending one told the BBC. Many are out on bail or awaiting trial, but some are still in custody. Another lawyer told the BBC that many more contributors were summoned for questioning.

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      Yeah India is a striking example of a place where porn really NEEDS to be legal. Way too many horny single men there.

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      Why am I reminded of one old comic? It went like this:

      (Scientists on an Antarctic base)
      Scientist 1: (Finishes talking about something normal)
      Scientist 2: (Disheveled and visibly unhinged) “Well none of that shit matters. Do you know what happened to my stack of Playboy magazines?”
      Scientist 1: (Now also suddenly disheveled and visibly unhinged, whips out a knife) “They’re mine now!”
      Scientist 2: (Also whips out a knife) “Oh yeah?”
      Scientist 1: “Yeah! What are you gonna do about it?”
      (Altercation ensues)

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        Why do you keep posting this? Your problem isn’t with people looking at naked pictures or lewd stories, it’s with exploitation. That’s a capitalist problem, not a porn one. Are you suggesting that in cases of capitalist exploitation we ban the exploited industry instead of regulating the capitalists?