China’s first museum of sex education for women, disseminating information on human reproduction and sexual psychology, has opened in the southern city of Guangzhou, the China Daily reported Friday.
The exhibition, which men are barred from, has eight halls with more than 500 exhibits, housed in the city’s Ren’ai Hospital.
Women will be shown films and pictures imparting ‘knowledge on pregnancy, abortions and childbirth,’ the newspaper said.
The museum hopes for at least 200 visitors per day.
Authorities hope the experience will allow women to make more informed choices in their relationships with male partners and in family planning.
In 2000, the China Family Planning Association launched a five-year project to ‘promote reproductive health education among Chinese teenagers and unmarried youth’, providing information on pregnancy and HIV prevention.
Widespread ignorance on sex issues have been seen as a major impediment to the Chinese government’s efforts to control the population explosion, and has contributed to the spread of HIV in recent years.
There are currently an estimated 1.5 million HIV infected in the country.
Good morning lobotero–It’s the end of Daylight Savings isn’t? I just found that out an hour too late…
Thanks for posting this story–I’m quite surprised, as this is China we’re talking about after all. It’s nice to hear that there are efforts to educate Chinese women about sex issues. In many parts of Asia, sex talk and sex education were always taboo, especially when it came to educating women. My Korean father used to think that it was the way a woman slept that determined the sex of the baby; so he pestered my mom about sleeping on her right side, and not on her back. (And that was the least in terms of their ignorance about sex–my mom and I are very close–she tells me EVERYTHING!)
A bit of an aside: An old friend of mine who visited Korea once reported back to me that female-only masturbation seminars were starting to spring up over there. I think we need more of those here…!
Hi Jrnny….sorry I am soo late writing…but I took a day of Zen before the silliness started on the last couple of days.
I found it an interesting article and shows that at least some people are no so up tight as Americans…I do not think there are too many more so than Americans.
Materbation—well they say if you cannot please yourself how can you please others……just a thought!
Haha! “well they say if you cannot please yourself how can you please others”–Absolutely!
I can’t seem to keep with responding to comments myself, so no worries, Lobotero 🙂
I’m excited about getting this election over with. The suspense is killing me!
Yes, I wish America wasn’t so uptight. We have way too many sexually-frustrated people in this country, but when some rebel against it, they go a little too wild. It’s either sexual repression or an all-out free-for-all. Lewd frat parties and Spring Break orgies, I mean. Not really sexually ‘mature’ either way. It seems like sexually-healthy people who just enjoy sex without all the lewdness are a rare breed in this country…
It seems like sexually-healthy people who just enjoy sex (and are honest and unashamed about sex, I mean) without all the lewdness, are a rare breed in this country…
So true–I mean the puritan outlook is just sick…when I was in Europe I found they had a more healthy attitude about sex–also learned that France had a much lower incidents of rape than the US. Could it be the more open attitudes?
Yes, perhaps it could the more open attitude towards sex. I have a close friend who lived in Southern Italy and Greece for many years, and she loves to relate stories about the American men who stalked and secretly photographed and taped women at the nude beaches along the Mediterranean. And of course, European women, such as herself, were just plain offended by that. It’s like, “Hey! We’re trying to enjoy a day at the beach here, do you have to make this seedy and perverted? Are you going to put me on some porn site?” American men–these grown men–were behaving really childishly with the women, as if they had never seen a naked woman before. Whatever the problem is here in America, there is still bizarre perversion added to sexuality. Sex is fabulous, but it doesn’t need to be depraved and perverse, with the alternative being utter repression and shame. Look what happens for the most severely repressed–Catholic priests?? Sen. Larry Craig??
My grandfather always said that sex was dirty….but only if you were doing it right.
Brilliant, I must use that and I promise I’ll quote him on it 😉
Cool….he was a very wise man and got me hooked on politics.