China has gone bananas for video of women eating the yellow fruit seductively. And that's a problem for the authoritarian government's censors.

The latest target of China's crackdown on "inappropriate" online content are live-streamed images of young women eating bananas "erotically," the country's state media has reported.

Images showing a woman eating a banana are among those being clamped down on by China's Ministry of Culture. Credit:Youtube

The rules reported last week follow China's Ministry of Culture announcement last month that all major online live streaming sites, such as Douyu and Panda.tv, were under investigation for hosting vulgar or violent content.

"The new regulations require the hosts of the live-streaming service to monitor all their output 24 hours a day, seven days a week," CCTVNews reported. CCTV is the government-run news service in China.