Next on the agenda: is disco hurting society?

Academics in China are holding a cultural expo, where they're discussing the important issues of the day. That is, if by "the day," you mean the seventies.

Chinese sociologists said that the country should promote bolder attitudes toward sex, but that wife-swapping was off the agenda, state media reported Monday.

Chinese attitudes toward sex have relaxed in recent decades, triggering a boom in extramarital relationships which the Communist Party has blamed on bourgeois mores imported from the West.

"Wife-swapping should not be promoted to the public as it will lead to the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases," the China Daily quoted Zhang Feng, a family planning official, as saying at the fourth Guangzhou Sex Culture Expo at the weekend.

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Zhang's comments echoed the views of other speakers but contrasted the views of Li Yinhe, a sociologist who last year said that wife-swapping was a "normal kind of entertainment" and that "all couples should have the right to do it."

That's how it starts, with the wife-swapping, and it's all fun and games. But then it leads to things like fondue and white polyester suits. Don't make the same mistakes we did, China. You'll be sorry when you wake up one day with shag carpeting and avocado green kitchen appliances. Worse still, you might end up with this:

Aieeeeeee!