BEIJING — Young women who have sex before marriage are degenerates. A girl who gives her body for love will make the boy who “conquers” her love her less. Premarital sex has a “tremendous negative psychological and physical impact on girls.”
These are some of the assertions in a sex education textbook approved by a provincial education department in China that has led to an outcry on social media.
Outraged by the text, “Senior Middle School Student Scientific Sex Education,” a teacher posted photos from the book on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, on Friday, unleashing a firestorm of comments.
“I was so angry when I read the textbook,” Zhong Guangquan, the teacher from Guangdong Province in southern China whose post started the online debate, told a Chinese website, Sixth Tone. “The concepts are backward and all the negative comments are directed toward girls.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/world/asia/chinese-textbook-calls-women-who-have-premarital-sex-degenerates.html