A lesbian love poem labeled obscene was removed from the In/Out Hong Kong Tongzhi exhibition of gay art before the before the exhibition opened this week.

    But with lines like “I’d like to pinch your thighs” and “I’ve no choice but to touch myself,” the poem was classified as a “Class II article” by Hong Kong’s Obscene Articles Tribunal, making it unsuitable for anyone under the age of 18.

One of the artists with work on display at the exhibition commented that “photographs or very graphic scenes” are normally classified as Class II articles, not poems.