Let us work to free Roaring Virile Fire, computer-science prof imprisoned in China for being a swinger and orgy enthusiast

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/world/asia/21china.html

In private, the professor, Ma Yaohai, 53, led a life that became intolerable to Chinese authorities: for the past six years, he was a member of informal swingers clubs that practiced group sex and partner swapping. In online chat rooms, his handle was Roaring Virile Fire. He organized and engaged in at least 18 orgies, most of them in the two-bedroom apartment in Nanjing where he lived with his mother, according to prosecutors.

On Thursday, a court sentenced the randy Mr. Ma to three and a half years in prison, a severe penalty for a crime that the Chinese government calls “crowd licentiousness.” Mr. Ma, now China’s most famous swinger, remains defiant and plans to appeal, saying his sex life is his own business, not subject to the law as long as he causes no social disturbance, according to his lawyer, Yao Yong’an....

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... 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....

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most of them in the two-bedroom apartment in Nanjing where he lived with his mother

He traded messages with a 23-year-old woman with the online name Passionate Fiery Phoenix.

Ugh, having spend the last few days reading about immensely unjust sexual litigation in this vein, seeing an instance of this now, as it happens is just so disheartening.