You Can Go to Jail for a 3-Way in China

19 Swingers get convicted of "Group Licentiousness" and get from 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 years in jail.

“The law against group sex, generally interpreted by judges as involving three or more people, is left over from an earlier law against ‘hooliganism’ that was used to prosecute people who had sex outside of marriage,” reported the Times. “The hooliganism law was scrapped in 1997. One notable swingers case took place in the early 1980s, when the leader of a swingers club involving four middle-aged couples was executed.”

It remains to be seen whether the recent swingers case, which received a lot of attention in China, sends the message the authorities are hoping for or whether it results in a backlash against the government by a populace increasingly used to its independence.