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Chinese Men’s Forum accused of Sharing Secretly Filmed Women’s Images
A Chinese online forum, “Park tree hole,” reportedly boasting over 100,000 male members, is at the center of a scandal involving the sharing of sexually explicit images of women. These images are alleged to have been captured using “pinhole cameras” hidden in everyday objects like plug sockets and shoes,or in intimate settings.
The situation has drawn comparisons to South Korea’s “Nth Room” case, where women were coerced into sharing explicit content within a Telegram group. While Telegram is officially blocked in China, it remains accessible via VPNs.
The scandal has generated critically important online discussion, with related hashtags accumulating millions of views on the social media platform Weibo.though, there are indications of censorship, as some searches related to the incident are reportedly blocked.
The revelations have sparked outrage among Chinese women. One user on the platform Xiaohongshu (also known as RedNote) stated, “A woman’s life is not a man’s erotic novel.” Another expressed fear, vowing to reconsider marriage and children if the “MaskPark incident isn’t properly addressed.”
In South Korea,the perpetrator of the “Nth Room” case received a 40-year prison sentence. In China, penalties for secretly filming individuals without consent are currently up to 10 days detention and a 500 yuan fine.Disseminating pornographic material can lead to a two-year prison sentence.
This is not the first instance of secret filming being exposed in China. Last year, a Beijing tech company boss was detained for 10 days after secretly recording over 10,000 videos of female employees in bathrooms, a punishment criticized by some as insufficient.
Legal experts have pointed out that Chinese law treats the dissemination of secretly filmed material as an obscenity offense, rather than a violation of women’s rights. Lao dongyan, a criminal law professor at Tsinghua University, argued on Weibo that this approach is “absurd” as it effectively treats the victims as participants in pornographic works.
despite increasing government restrictions on activism, some women are finding ways to address misogyny. Comedian Huang Yijin, on the show “The King of Standup Comedy,” humorously alluded to the prevalence of hidden cameras, stating she assumes they are present even when alone in hotel rooms.
