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Topic: But is it an art?

Cheng Li, a 57-year-old performance artist who had sex in public as part of an exhibition, was sentenced to a year in a labor camp. Images of the "show" at a Beijing gallery have been widely spread online.

Sex is instinctive of human being and is private behavior. Compared with animals, which hardly select a time and place to have sex, human show more dignity and self-restraint. This is important, as it makes humans different from animals. Labeling sexual intercourse as performance art makes little sense. Can anything be called art if it betrays the social morality?