Saturday, October 11, 2008

Sex Education in China

Sometimes, it is absolutely unbelievable the kind of values Mainland China is now teaching the next generation. In the area of sex education, they are even more advanced than socialist European nations apparently... Are 5000 years of Confucian conservatism going to be washed out by libertine sexual mores?

It is common knowledge that Mao Tse-tung and others slept around in those cozy caves in Yen'an and communism is famous for its professed socialization of family values... but are these pictures and comments a little too far and a little too much?
You be the judge. The pictures for this post are from MOP, a popular Chinese site:
http://dzh.mop.com/mainFrame.jsp?url=http://dzh.mop.com/topic/readSub_8857375_0_0.html

Some of my translations of the book used for 1st grade classrooms:

"The Boy's sexual organ contains a very important organ called the testicle. Kids call them "little eggs." The testicles are located in the sack; the sack is what holds the "little eggs." Normal boys have two testicles, one on the left side and one on the right side. We can use our hands to touch the testicles located in the sack"

A caption for the cartoon of testicles,
Sperm A: Older brother (lau hsiong), I cannot come down!
Testicle A: Hey, come down quick!
Testicle B: It is cold down here, let's go up!


-- Jeff jkwong@fas

















2 comments:

Spotted said...

That's so graphic. I love it.

still thinking said...

unfortunately, this article speaks more to the terrible sex education they receive in china rather than libertine sexual freedom. i'm sure some of you have seen the stories of women who think it routine to have several abortions over a lifetime, using it as "contraception" rather than pills or condoms or other less invasive forms. spreading wrong information such as that included in the textbook can only mean worse things for a population that is increasingly sexually active.