Chinese Teenagers Turn to Internet for Sex Education

According to this article, because topics related to sexuality and reproduction are often difficult for Chinese teachers and parents to broach, Chinese teenagers are turning to school-sponsored internet sites for sex education. Research cited in the article showed that middle school students were more sexually active than high school students.

Based on this research, Middle School 15 has opened Hunan Province's first website to provide
students with advice on sex and reproductive health.
It includes both text and pictures and covers sexual psychology, physiology, morality, and law. The article states that because students and parents characterise the information as 'scientific,' they feel comfortable using it as an information resource and emailing questions to experts associated with the site.


According to the article, another on-line strategy in sex education was an internet-based exhibition on abortion for primary and middle schools in Zhejiang province.