Sexual Revolution Hits China

[Steve]

China discovers the sexually permissive society

Casual relationships on the rise, but so too are teen abortions

 

BEIJING - The no-tell motels in Beijing's university districts pulsate with sex.

 

Every weekend, lusty college couples make a beeline past greasy spoon restaurants and bootleg video game shops for the dim hotel lobbies to book three-hour blocks of privacy. Students fill half the simple but tidy rooms at the Cheng Lin Ming Guang Hotel, a 10-minute walk from Beijing Normal University.

 

China is in the midst of a sexual revolution, a byproduct of rising prosperity and looser government restrictions on private life. The relaxed attitudes about sex mark a historic turnaround from the days when love and sex were denounced as bourgeois decadence, and unisex Mao suits and drab austerity were the norm.

 

But the revolution is taking place largely behind closed doors, and the word "sex" â?? or "xing" (pronounced shing) is spoken only among close friends, and then usually in a whisper.

 

As a result, sex education has not kept up with sexual activity, with some unwelcome consequences. High school girls make up 80 percent of the patients at Shanghai abortion clinics during one-week school holidays, state media reported last year...

 

 

[MooNoi]

Not just in China, Steve.

 

Happening in LOS too, although probably started earlier than in PRC.

 

Just the sheer number of Thai girls willing to get their gear off online when chatting or on Camfrog is amazing! (And a good thing!) :grin:

[CTO]

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That's it's real name?

[..]

Yup. Been there many times. They do some useful research in my field of work.

 

Cheers,

SD -- must research the co-eds when he's there next!