Wait, what? Deep kisses, hickies ,and breast play? I need to take that off my backlog immediately!
Ahem . . .
This kind of thing has always been a real mess, and it's not just places like China. It wasn't that long ago that PB and Marceline kissing in the Adventure Time finale was a Big Thing(tm), and it wasn't that long ago that gay/lesbian kisses in "prime time" TV shows were completely absent, even though there were no laws or even guidelines anywhere - those decisions were all made by the producers and executives involved, and any time the decision making was documented it all came down to money, generally the fear of not making as much as they wanted to. I suspect everywhere it ultimately comes down to a balance sheet in some bean counter executive's head, trading off the extra revenue from the positive reactions against the lost revenue from the outrage - all the artistic and cultural and even legal questions are down in the noise . . .