Funny: Bar owner, who erected giant statue of Buddhas having sex is ordered to take it down

A bar owner in China who erected a statue of two Buddhas locked in a passionate embrace has been ordered to take it down after local officials deemed it too sexy for public display.

The four-metre high effigy is the centrepiece of Yanyu pub - meaning 'to have a fling' in Chinese - in Lijiang city and features a female Buddha sitting on the lap of a male Buddha in the lotus position.

Lijiang, in southwestern Yunnan Province, is one of the most popular tourist cities in China and is famed as the region's romantic heartland where thousands flock each year in the hope of finding love.But the sculpture has come under fire from local officials and internet trolls who claim it blasphemes the religion's deities and insults Chinese heritage.