Video streaming websites were told by the Chinese government to chop out scenes involving one-night stands and extramarital affairs, the BBC Russian Service reported citing the Global Times daily.

Many foreign TV shows, including American dramas and South Korean soaps, are streamed online in China. But now the hosting websites will have to cut any scenes which deal with marital infidelity or show “too much physical contact,” under new rules announced by the country's media watchdog.

Scenes showing murders, suicides, kidnappings, drug abuse, gambling or “supernatural occurrences” will also have to be edited, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) has ruled.

But there are concerns among some social media users that the breadth of content being banned means there will be nothing left to watch.

Some are also worried the rules could spell an end to their streaming of South Korean soap operas, which are particularly popular in China.