Gay Sherlock Holmes fan fiction irks China’s media regulator

CHINA — China’s media regulator has recently cracked down on fan fiction which focuses on romantic relationships between fictional characters of the same sex and that includes the popular Sherlock and Watson which it views as pornography, reports GayAsiaNews.com. The National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications (NOAPIP) has recently launched a new crackdown on online pornographic content in…

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Holmes and Watson take on queer bent in Chinese fan fiction

As cross-cultural pollinization accelerates, its various permutations can seem both jarring and perfectly normal. Take, for example, the wholly natural assimilation of the story of Sherlock Holmes and his unwavering sidekick Dr. Watson in Chinese culture. Since 2011, when millions of television viewers first laid eyes on Benedict Cumberbatch as the iconic sleuth and Martin…

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