Most teenagers learn about sex from Internet
Source: Xinhua |
August 5, 2010, Thursday
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CHINA'S teenagers mainly learn about sex on the Internet, with sex education at school and at home inadequate, according to a survey.
More than three-quarters of 3,000 teenagers who took part in the China Youth Daily survey said the Internet is their most important source of information about sex. Books and friends came next with school and parents ranked as the two least important sources.
"There is a severe lack of formal sex education in China, so many teenagers turn to the Internet," said Ye Qing, a postgraduate student at the Second Military Medical University who runs an online sex education forum for Chinese youth.
Zhang Chao, an Internet celebrity renowned for his sex lectures stuffed with jokes, said: "We do have sex education in the school. But it is far from enough."
Some 12 percent of the survey's respondents believe sex education for children under the age of 10 is appropriate, though 42.5 percent said primary school students already have some awareness of sex.
Children and college students should be provided with sex education, said Zhang Meimei, director of the Sex Education and Research Center at Beijing Normal University.
Pan Suiming, head of the Institute for Research on Sexuality and Gender at Renmin University of China, said that sex education must be compulsory. He also suggests changes in how sex education is provided.
"We should not focus on what we can tell teenagers. We should focus on what they want to know," Pan said.
More than three-quarters of 3,000 teenagers who took part in the China Youth Daily survey said the Internet is their most important source of information about sex. Books and friends came next with school and parents ranked as the two least important sources.
"There is a severe lack of formal sex education in China, so many teenagers turn to the Internet," said Ye Qing, a postgraduate student at the Second Military Medical University who runs an online sex education forum for Chinese youth.
Zhang Chao, an Internet celebrity renowned for his sex lectures stuffed with jokes, said: "We do have sex education in the school. But it is far from enough."
Some 12 percent of the survey's respondents believe sex education for children under the age of 10 is appropriate, though 42.5 percent said primary school students already have some awareness of sex.
Children and college students should be provided with sex education, said Zhang Meimei, director of the Sex Education and Research Center at Beijing Normal University.
Pan Suiming, head of the Institute for Research on Sexuality and Gender at Renmin University of China, said that sex education must be compulsory. He also suggests changes in how sex education is provided.
"We should not focus on what we can tell teenagers. We should focus on what they want to know," Pan said.
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