Life has not gotten easier for China’s LGBTQ+ communities. A looming demographic crisis has inspired calls to strengthen traditional family structures and produce more children, while rising nationalism and xenophobia have...
In the wake of China’s annual “Two Sessions” meetings in Beijing, the Ministry of Education has announced a slew of new regulations aimed at protecting children’s physical, mental, and political health....
A series of sex education textbooks used in elementary schools in China has triggered a debate...
The storm surrounding an adaptation of The Vagina Monologues by 17 female students at Beijing...
Rachel Lu reports in Foreign Policy that women from Beijing Foreign Studies University faced...
China Daily reported yesterday on a counterfeit condom factory busted in the southeastern province of Fujian, and two other underground factories uncovered by the police investigation : An underground workshop producing fake...
A growing trend amongst members of China’s upper class is the aspiration to move abroad. An article in the Wall Street Journal tells the story of a few affluent might-be migrants and their reasons for considering a new...
Popular reality television programming has seen a sensational rise in China. However, the New York Times extensively covers the Chinese regulators attempt to overhaul reality TV programming. Shows such as “If You...
Cybersecurity analysts in the United States claim they have sourced a bulk of the China-based cyberattacks against America back to as few as 12 groups backed or directed by the government, according to The Associated Press: The...
Officials in Guangdong have reversed plans to ease the province’s family planning policy and allow certain couples to have two children. From China Daily: A document on family planning in Guangdong’s 12th Five-Year...
AP reports on rising abortion rates in China, primarily due to increased sexual activity among young, unmarried women and a lack of basic sex ed: China’s family planning network is enormous and efficient, a virtual...
Focus on the Family, a U.S. Christian evangelical group, has found an unexpected bedfellow in the CCP for promoting its abstinence-only education campaign, the Washington Post reports: In Yunnan schools this year, teachers are...
Bruce Humes writes in his blog: Don’t let media in the West fool you—talking about sex in China is not taboo. But apparently references to female genitalia and orgasms are still big no-nos. To see how such touchy subjects are...
Most kids aren’t learning about sex from their parents, according to a report released Wednesday. The All-China Women’s Federation polled 5,000 students aged six to 17 and 6,500 parents about how they communicating about sex, a...
Xinhua reportsthe China Sexology Association (CSA), a non-governmental organization and academic society promoting reproductive health, has received a six-month ban for allegedly receiving profits from group activities....
From China Daily: Doctors in South China’s Guangdong Province observed an increase in the number of female students visiting hospitals in search of abortions during the weeks leading up to the start of school. Some hospitals in Dongguan, a city in the province, reported two to three times as many abortion requests in the week […]
From Y Weekend and translated by EastSouthWestNorth: What has changed with the sexual activities and relationships of the Chinese people over the past six years? Recently, the published research results at the Chinese Renmin University Sexual Sociology Institute website challenged the general beliefs of many people. During an interview with reporter from Y Weekend, Professor […]
MedicalNewsToday.com discusses a recent initiative to provide sex education and contraceptives to women workers at a cell phone factory in Shanghai to battle high rates of unsafe abortions carried out by unmarried female migrant workers as well as a general lack of knowledge on contraceptives and STD prevention: Young, single women in urban China are […]
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