Let's talk about sex ... again
When a local high school backed out of a trip to our friendly local sex museum, Shanghaiist got all over it. But, we like to think ourselves as -- dare we say it -- “Fair and Balanced”. When there is progress made, we’d tell you about it, too.
Shanghaiist saw this in Shanghai Daily today:
The Shanghai Family Planning Institute will launch a survey late next month of about 6,000 people aged between 15 and 24 about their opinions on sex. It is a part of research on young people and their attitudes about sex in Asia.The same survey will also be conducted in Taipei and Hanoi, Vietnam. The project is sponsored by US-based Johns Hopkins University's Gates Institute.
Well, we don’t know what those kids might say, but our take on “sex in Asia” is a resounding “WE LOVE IT!”
Jokes aside, we are glad to see policy makers taking an interactive and open approach to this very serious issue. This contributor still recalls the wink-wink, nudge-nudge, all around uninformative "sex-ed" class he had the misfortune of sitting through in a Chinese classroom decades ago. Although we would like to hear a little more: for example, what will be some of the questions asked and how will the results be used. But anything that will take the students’ feelings/views into account deserves some praise.
But then it's back to reality. We were just forwarded a link to another Shanghai Daily story: "Sex museum sparks controversy." Here we go again.
Photo from Avantfolk.com.
