{"id":1305,"date":"2009-10-06T16:25:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T20:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2009-10-06T13:30:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T17:30:24","slug":"if-you-cant-believe-xinhua-who-can-you-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/06\/if-you-cant-believe-xinhua-who-can-you-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"If you can&#8217;t believe Xinhua, who <em>can<\/em> you believe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2009\/10\/06\/chako_paul_city\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lester Haines<\/a> had a lot of fun composing this, um, fascinating report from the Chinese news agency, Xinhua:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>Chinese media finger Swedish lesbian enclave<\/b><br \/><em>Mythical city of Sapphic luuuurv<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chinese media have confirmed what we in the West suspected all along: that concealed in the northern Swedish woods is a city of 25,000 women, many of whom have turned to Sapphic love to satiate their natural Scandinavian sexual desires.<\/p>\n<p>According to news agancy Xinhua, the all-female enclave is called \u201cChako Paul City\u201d, and was founded in 1820 by a &#8220;wealthy widow&#8221;. The city is guarded by two blonde sentries who prevent men from entering. Those chaps who do unwisely attempt to force the issue risk being \u201cbeaten half to death\u201d by Nordic gender police.<\/p>\n<p>Women, though, are welcome to visit Chako Paul City, which boasts a burgeoning tourist industry with hotels and restaurants catering for international guests. Locals, however, are discouraged from leaving their female paradise, and those who do &#8220;are only allowed to re-enter Chako Paul City if they agree to bathe and undertake several other measures designed to ensure that their out-of-town trysts don\u2019t negatively affect the mental state of other women in the town&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like an old post in alt.sex.stories.swedish to me . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lester Haines had a lot of fun composing this, um, fascinating report from the Chinese news agency, Xinhua: Chinese media finger Swedish lesbian enclaveMythical city of Sapphic luuuurv Chinese media have confirmed what we in the West suspected all along: that concealed in the northern Swedish woods is a city of 25,000 women, many of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,62,28],"tags":[196,283,323],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-europe","category-media","tag-lgbt","tag-sweden","tag-unlikely"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-l3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}