Vita Sexualis on The Carnal Prayer Mat: “There is an outrageous obscene book by a Chinese author, The Carnal Prayer Mat (Rouputuan), and, as is typical of the Chinese, it tacks a moral of divine retribution onto its plot. It is truly a foolish book, in which the hero Weiyangsheng, worried that a certain part of his body is too small, goes about peeking at people urinating. [auto-translated]”