What pornographic books did teenagers read during the Cultural Revolution?

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Today I'm introducing a book called *The Heart of a Young Girl*, hailed as the first pornographic book of the Cultural Revolution. Despite lacking a coherent plot, romantic descriptions, and literary merit—it's entirely a raw expression of sexual desire and experience—it circulated widely underground and was essential reading for most young people of childbearing age. Some of its sexual references even appeared in notebooks used by students to record revolutionary quotations and for masturbation when bored. It's no exaggeration to say that, in that era, it was one of the most widely read books besides Mao's Selected Works and the Xinhua Dictionary. However, in that ascetic China where class struggle reigned supreme, this book was considered a "poisonous weed" against proletarian ideology. *The Heart of
a Young Girl* is about five or six thousand words long, resembling an enlarged diary entry. The story primarily revolves around the first-person narrative of the romance between "I" and my cousin, but the background and details are presented rather simply. The text focuses mainly on descriptions of sex, divided into three stages: first, groping; the second and third stages go further, expressing a teenage girl's sexual fears and the joy of experiencing sex. The writing style is boastful and flamboyant; by today's standards, it's about average online erotica.

Its preface reads, "Now I'll recount a personal experience of mine. My name is Manna, and looking back, I find it very interesting. My experience is probably similar to that of every teenage girl, and I hope readers can find some enjoyment in it."
After reading five paragraphs, it jumps straight into the sex scenes, without any drawn-out buildup or affected language—it's just that vulgar. This reminds me of a line from the movie "The Troubleshooters": "Hey buddy, what's on the show today?" "I don't know what's on the show, I just know it's pretty vulgar." "Okay, okay, I love vulgar stuff!" With such a simple and crude premise, no wonder it became the number one pornographic book of the Cultural Revolution. Below, I'll just randomly pick two excerpts to show you the level of erotic literature in China in the 1970s.
"To be honest, none of that really attracted me. What truly attracted me was my cousin's bulging lower body, his legs pressed together, his magnificent penis visible even through his tight pants.
Just thinking about it made my penis intensely hot, itchy as if something inside was about to burst out. After we got to know each other, I found him to be a polite and cheerful man. He was very talkative, and I often sat next to him, letting him tell me interesting stories. I remember once, I pretended to be scared and sat down next to him. I could tell he was very attracted to me, but he didn't dare to be presumptuous. I deeply understood him.
Since I fell in love with him, my heart has been tormented every day..." As soon as I got close to him, I felt an indescribable sensation all over my body—how I longed for his ** to penetrate my itchy **!
Once, I deliberately and casually placed my hand on the base of his thigh, slowly approaching his bulging area. He immediately pulled me into his arms, his trembling lips capturing mine, and then he kissed my face and neck wildly, kissing me wantonly. I couldn't stand such a passionate and fiery kiss, so I grabbed that bulging, high, and particularly hard place—it was so hard! "
The above is the first stage. In the second and third stages, the contact between the two successors of socialism became even more intense, and they had completely wrapped their lofty ambitions of "carrying the proletarian revolution through to the end" in tissue paper and threw them into the grass.
"The night was utterly still. My full, elastic breasts, my soft, hairy pubic area, and my plump thighs were at his mercy, at his whim. Suddenly, he grabbed me tightly, bent down, and sucked on my nipples with his mouth.
It felt so good! A warm current flowed through my body. I couldn't help but hold his head in my hands, pressing it hard against my breasts and rubbing it. He kissed my face, sucked on my pubic hair, and used his tongue to part the hair covering my clitoris, gently biting my already swollen and throbbing clitoris with his teeth."
At that moment, I truly lost control. A burning desire surged through my entire body, and my vagina throbbed with an intense itch. I trembled uncontrollably, and streams of vaginal fluid gushed out, staining his lips and beard. I watched as he sucked and swallowed the fluid that flowed from my vagina. I felt a tingling, electric shock-like sensation throughout my body. I desperately wished he would immediately insert that hard thing into my vagina and thrust it in a few times, but he didn't. He just kissed me again and again, licked me again and again, and sucked on me again and again.
After a while, he looked up and asked, "Good sister, have you ever tasted the pleasure of **? It's truly wonderful, so enjoyable, and so intoxicating. It's too late today, let's play again tomorrow!" I felt really disappointed, so I wiped my ** with my hand and then wiped the lustful fluid from my genitals with my panties, thinking to myself, "What a waste of all that fluid!" I quickly put my clothes back on and said, "Okay, cousin, let's go, we'll come again tomorrow."
At that time, among a plethora of political books promoting ideology, even a casual mention of humanistic love could generate over 100,000 views, let alone such explicit erotica, where a single word or sentence could... It stirred up the desires that teenagers had suppressed for many years. Because the book was banned at the time, even handwritten copies were hard to come by, and many people circulated it from dormitory to dormitory, spiritually indulging in this forbidden fruit.
In the later stages of the Cultural Revolution, many teenagers were arrested for "hooliganism." During their interrogation, it was found that 100% of them had read the book "The Heart of a Young Girl." Based on this, the public security organs later believed that all hooligans had read "The Heart of a Young Girl," and conversely, anyone who had read "The Heart of a Young Girl" would become a hooligan. Thus, a fixed causal relationship was established between reading "The Heart of a Young Girl" and sexual crimes.
In 1979, the Central Committee issued a notice requiring the entire Party to study the problem of juvenile delinquency. In her article "A Preliminary Exploration of Juvenile Delinquency and Sexual Psychology," published in the 7th supplement of the 1980 issue of *Social Science Federation Newsletter* by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Liao Lingzhu, a researcher on youth education issues, wrote: "According to an incomplete survey of a class in a middle school, out of 43 students, 13 admitted to having read erotic handwritten copies of works such as *The Heart of a Girl*, and some students even copied such books during class or self-study periods." However, these children did not commit crimes. In fact, most cases of copying *The Heart of a Girl* were uncovered while investigating other cases.
After the 1980s, with the relaxation of state control over popular ideology, the crackdown on *The Heart of a Girl* lessened considerably. The main force behind the crackdowns shifted from the police to schools; teachers would check students' drawers after school, confiscating any prohibited books. This socialist-style educational censorship still exists even in the 21st century. When I was in school, my homeroom teacher not only confiscated my comics but also my CD player, which he didn't give me back upon graduation.
Where there is oppression, there is resistance. "The Heart of a Young Girl" remains popular, infiltrating schools not only through handwritten copies but also through cassette tapes. Liu Hongfeng, a student at a key middle school in Liaoning Province, heard an unnamed cassette tape from an unknown source during his junior high school years. The tape was secretly passed among classmates, featuring a girl named "Manna," her cousin, and her boyfriend. All the events between them were read aloud by a female voice, leaving junior high students terrified and blushing. In 1988, when Liu Hongfeng was in high school, he first saw a handwritten copy of "The Heart of a Young Girl." Upon seeing the opening line, "My name is Manna," he realized that the tape he had heard was this banned book. While
today's otaku watch porn and masturbate, forty years ago, young revolutionaries indulged their hormones through banned books like "The Heart of a Young Girl." As a metaphor for its era, its popularity arose solely from that impoverished and repressive environment, embodying the physiological desires of countless teenagers filled with sexual curiosity during adolescence. Alongside the then-considered pornographic film *Homecoming*, it completed the sexual awakening of "eggs under the red flag."
(From Consensus Net)

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