The sexual revolution sweeps across China, according to an article in the UK Independent:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article332352.ece
I'm hardly against the people of China having more freedoms, but this is not what I had in mind. Those of us who live in America (and are not in liberal denial) have seen the destructive consequences of a "sexual revolution". A prominent conservative commentator likes to say that America needs to export liberalism, so that other countries will be burdened with the same things that make it harder for America to compete with them. It sounds as though he's getting his wish. Apparently, a major component of liberalism has been successfully exported to the Most Favored Nation, the most populous nation, by way of Al Gore's invention -- the internet, that is. Here's a key part of the story:
The new permissiveness means that being faithful to one's partner is no longer obligatory; a March 2005 survey revealed that a third of young people in urban areas believe extra-marital affairs should be tolerated.
Professor Li, who teaches at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, has spent 10 years researching the sex lives of the Chinese, and she believes China will "catch up" with the West in terms of sexual practices within 20 years.
But judging by the 50,000 people who flocked to last month's Sex and Culture festival in Guangzhou city in southern Guangdong Province to browse the latest in sex toys - 70 per cent of the world's total are made in the province - it may be sooner than that.
Yes, it certainly may be. It sounds to me like they're catching up fast. Here's more:
Some sociologists believe the policy introduced in 1979 restricting urban couples to having just one child was the spark for the sexual permissiveness. Professor Pan Suiming, of the Renmin University of China, said: "The one-child policy shattered the Confucian belief that reproduction is the only purpose of sex."
Aha! Not to endorse Confucianism, but this is a brilliant example of what can happen when an oppressive government tramples on traditional values within a country. One more paragraph I want to point out:
Unsurprisingly, this new-found sexual freedom has a negative side.
Hold on a second! Was the article describing the positive side before? Anyway, here's the rest of the negative side:
Unsurprisingly, this new-found sexual freedom has a negative side. The number of young single women having abortions has soared: 65 per cent of women terminating pregnancies in 2004 were single, compared to 25 per cent in 1999. Rates of HIV infections are growing quickest amongst the 15-to-24 age group, and the number of couples getting divorced in 2004 was 1.6 million, a 21 per cent rise on 2003. But now the genie is out of the bottle, it seems there is no turning back.
Yes, that sounds negative to me. Many people worry that China will soon be the worst enemy of the U.S., but it sounds as though the People's Republic may well be on the verge of imminent collapse.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article332352.ece
I'm hardly against the people of China having more freedoms, but this is not what I had in mind. Those of us who live in America (and are not in liberal denial) have seen the destructive consequences of a "sexual revolution". A prominent conservative commentator likes to say that America needs to export liberalism, so that other countries will be burdened with the same things that make it harder for America to compete with them. It sounds as though he's getting his wish. Apparently, a major component of liberalism has been successfully exported to the Most Favored Nation, the most populous nation, by way of Al Gore's invention -- the internet, that is. Here's a key part of the story:
The new permissiveness means that being faithful to one's partner is no longer obligatory; a March 2005 survey revealed that a third of young people in urban areas believe extra-marital affairs should be tolerated.
Professor Li, who teaches at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, has spent 10 years researching the sex lives of the Chinese, and she believes China will "catch up" with the West in terms of sexual practices within 20 years.
But judging by the 50,000 people who flocked to last month's Sex and Culture festival in Guangzhou city in southern Guangdong Province to browse the latest in sex toys - 70 per cent of the world's total are made in the province - it may be sooner than that.
Yes, it certainly may be. It sounds to me like they're catching up fast. Here's more:
Some sociologists believe the policy introduced in 1979 restricting urban couples to having just one child was the spark for the sexual permissiveness. Professor Pan Suiming, of the Renmin University of China, said: "The one-child policy shattered the Confucian belief that reproduction is the only purpose of sex."
Aha! Not to endorse Confucianism, but this is a brilliant example of what can happen when an oppressive government tramples on traditional values within a country. One more paragraph I want to point out:
Unsurprisingly, this new-found sexual freedom has a negative side.
Hold on a second! Was the article describing the positive side before? Anyway, here's the rest of the negative side:
Unsurprisingly, this new-found sexual freedom has a negative side. The number of young single women having abortions has soared: 65 per cent of women terminating pregnancies in 2004 were single, compared to 25 per cent in 1999. Rates of HIV infections are growing quickest amongst the 15-to-24 age group, and the number of couples getting divorced in 2004 was 1.6 million, a 21 per cent rise on 2003. But now the genie is out of the bottle, it seems there is no turning back.
Yes, that sounds negative to me. Many people worry that China will soon be the worst enemy of the U.S., but it sounds as though the People's Republic may well be on the verge of imminent collapse.
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