Though not without precedent, it was racy subject matter for China and the attention it got eventually provoked a criticism in the Beijing Evening News. That and the ban of her book led Mu to voluntarily halt her column and her blog to defuse the controversy.
Mu does not regard herself as peddling smut. She said her generation of Chinese grew up with little or no sex education. "Some learned it from videos," she said. "Why not from words?"
She also said the controversy had cramped her social life: she has, she said, been celibate for two weeks.
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