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China blames sex on the "The West"
In the face of the rising 'westernization' of Chinese adults and youths, Xinhua, China's state news agency, has blamed the growing popularity of sex among the mainland population on 'western influences'.
The announcement came after a college in China's Guangdong was found giving highly progressive sexual education classes to students that involved suggestive role plays containing promiscuous adolescent behavior and material to promote the use of barrier contraceptives as a means of preventing pregnancy and the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
Xinhua sharply criticized the college, calling the sex education classes "sex parties" and claimed that they were "only teaching students to put aside their shyness" regarding sexual activities. Chinese authorities also attributed the rise in sex related activities on "liberal morality imported from the West" and called for restraint and adherence to more Chinese morals.
Among the behaviour listed as being influenced by the west were "adolescent dating" which is still forbidden by most parents, colleges and middle school, extra marital affairs, and prostitution, the former of which is often the product of couples being sexually or emotionally unfulfilled inside a marriage and the latter is often created by urban poverty.
Chinese authorities voiced strong concerns that popular culture imported from the west, and progressive sex education classes, may create an atmosphere where sex is seen as acceptable "as long as you have a condom" and where people under 20 year olds will regularly be dating.
However, far from looking to western nations as the root of cultural change, it may be productive for China to look closer to home for an answer to its sexual frustrations.
Historically, Japan, China's near neighbor and verbal punching bag, has a far more open sexual culture than most western nation, with explicit Shounen Ai, or "Male Love", magazines and mock pre-pubescent pornography being popular among suburban women and men respectively, and on sale openly alongside supermarket tabloids and home improvement titles.
Japan also has a thriving "sex club" industry encompassing prostitution, sexual-fantasy role play, and child sex role play, that exists in many regions to service married businessmen travelling away from home, and it was recently claimed that Japan's ongoing population decline is being exaggerated by the use of prostitutes, by married men, in favour of inter-marital sex.
China's sister countries Thailand and the Philippines are also well known destination for child and adult sex tourism and along side Vietnam are major players in the smuggling of women, including Chinese women, for prostitution or marriage.
In recent years China has also seen a marked rise in the distribution of Asian pornography, generated within China or imported from other Asian countries.
As a nation, China has comparatively little cultural contact with western nations like Holland where prostitution has been legalized or France where open sexuality is widely accepted, and the three main sources of western cultural and influence in China, America, Australia and Britain, traditionally have a more conservative attitude towards sex and sexual fidelity than many of China's neighbors.
Many US education boards favour abstinence, until marriage and as a means of birth and STD control, over the use of barrier or chemical contraceptives, and many British schools regularly maintain a policy of only teaching the biological side of sex and the means of avoiding pregnancy and STDs as advocated by Xinhua, who stated the desire for colleges to promote "a scientific and serious approach to sex education".
Conversely to Chinese views, few western colleges see the need to hold sex education classes, which are usually only given to children before or during the early stages of puberty, and most western parent do not oppose teenage dating, seeing it as a form of personal discovery that allows teenagers to make more informed choices about their future relationships.
This issue does though pose the perplexing riddle, what would an anti dumping action on sexual morality look like?
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040830/80/f1i4w.html
There goes the West again, forcing itself down the throats of everyone
else. The word "imperialism" often invokes images of a foreign army
invading some thrid-world nation, taking over its government, enslaving
much of the population, and plucking much of the nation's natural resources
for the benefit of the invading nation/government. But one form of
imperialism that the progressives/socialists here in the US almost never
criticize, much less mention, is cultural imperialism. Perhaps it is
because so many of America's social progressives are in charge of and/or
work for the American entertainment industry, which, over the past forty
years or so, has apparently dedicated itself to molding and shaping the
attitudes and culture of America, and perhaps even the world. I'm not
saying that the government should try to interfere with this cultural
transformation, but it still bothers me because this transformation is
occuring primarily through unofficial, centralized means, and, most
importantly, without consent. Here's a good essay on the whole matter:
You've not been reading my biography page have you. My country has been the
victim of American cultural imperialism. I really dislike it, America's
'western' have been corrupting my people for decades, particularly with
their overly liberal sex culture and gun.
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