BEIJING, Dec 5 (AFP) - A groundbreaking daily television show dealing in a frank manner with sex issues will debut in more than 50 Chinese cities from January 1, reports said Sunday.
The rising number of cases of HIV/AIDS and venereal disease in China mean it is no longer possible to ignore questions of health and sexuality in a society where they were for a long time taboo, Liu Xichen, president of Shixi Media firm which is producing the show, told Xinhua news agency.
Titled "The Mask", the show will air late at night and be educational. The half-hour show will consist of a discussion with a masked guest of a problem in their sex life, which will then be analysed by an expert.
Analysis of erotic film scenes would also be presented.
"Any sex-related question could be asked and explored in depth at the show so that the concrete sex-related problems could be solved in the real sense," Xinhua quoted Li as saying.
In addition to wearing masks to preserve their anonymity, interviewees' voices could also be disguised, he told the Meiri Xinbao newspaper.
On the occasion of World Aids Day last Wednesday, China announced the upcoming broadcast of a television documentary series intended to provide the public with basic knowledge of the pandemic.
"The Mask" will be compered by Sun Yan, who has presented a nighttime show on intimate subjects on Beijing radio for the last six years, the Beijing Morning Post said.
The show will be aired in the capital Beijing and more than 50 other cities in China, the newspaper said, without giving details of which networks would broadcast it.
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