Du Zeyong, former union director in Liaocheng who was expelled from the Communist Party in January 2013
A string of Chinese sex scandals erupted around the time of the country's leadership handover last year.
There was the sex tape of "frog/bug-eyed" Lei Zhengfu a party boss in Chongqing's Beibei District and an 18-year old.
Compromising photos of Wu Hong, a local police official in Chongqing, and a woman in some state of undress surfaced soon after. And there was the video of Du Zeyong, former union director in Liaocheng who was expelled from the Communist Party in January 2013 after tapes emerged of him with his mistresses, the most infamous being the one in which he wearing a red thong.
But then there was a lull. It was believed policymakers had allowed videos to leak out of Chongqing to get rid of supporters of former Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai.
Namrata Hasija at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) explains:
"Notably, in case of the two officials from Chongqing, Lei Zhengfu had close ties with the ex-police chief of the city, Wang Lijun, and is believed to have approached Wang after the developer had threatened to post the videos on the internet. Wang immediately cracked down on the developer and the girls, confiscating the videos. But with the fall of Wang after the Bo Xilai scandal, these videos were leaked to Zhu from the office of the police department in Chongqing.
"… So it can be easily argued that these are engineered attempts by the new leadership to serve a two-fold purpose: one, eliminating the supporters and benefactors of Bo Xilai and secondly, to showcase the new leadership as being solemn in its anti-corruption drive against corrupt government officials."
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Since April however we've seen another steady trickle of cases.
The most prominent one involves Liu Zhijun, the former Railways Minister, who was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for bribery and abuse of power. This means he is unlikely be executed. Amid his corruption charges were reports that he also accepted bribes in the form of sexual acts.
More recently Shanghai's disciplinary commission said that three judges will be expelled from the Party after they were accused of hiring sex workers. Then, there was the report from China's state-owned Xinhua about businessmen throwing parties for high-ranking officials partaking in breast milk orgies. And of course, there is Xu Qiayo of Jiangsu who boasted about having over 140 mistresses, including a mother-daughter duo.
"One guess would be the message wasn't getting through that people were supposed to behave better. So now, potentially, the propaganda folks are saying 'fine, we're going to let you be humiliated again'," Bill Bishop, China expert and author of the excellent Sinocism newsletter told Business Insider.