Max Planck Institute Promotes Brothel

From The Independent:

There were red faces on the editorial board of one of Germany’s top scientific institutions, the Max Planck Institute, after it ran the text of a handbill for a Macau strip club on the front page of its latest journal. Editors had hoped to find an elegant Chinese poem to grace the cover of a special issue, focusing on China, of the MaxPlanckForschung journal, but instead of poetry they ran a text effectively proclaiming “Hot Housewives in action!” on the front of the third-quarter edition. Their “enchanting and coquettish performance” was highly recommended.

This is puzzling: Poems are in books, not on flyers. No way was this xeroxed from a book. Even I can see that. This will be their best-selling issue — maybe it was a mistake on purpose.

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