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Mao's home province puts sex on the Internet

21 Nov 2006 04:07:31 GMT
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BEIJING, Nov 21 (Reuters) - A school in Mao Zedong's home province, slower than most to adopt reforms that have now swept the country, has launched its first sex education Web site to stop children feeling embarrassed by the subject.

The service was set up by the No. 15 Middle School in the provincial capital Changsha at the weekend, the China Daily said.

"The service provides students with a safe, discrete and convenient tool for navigating their way through a subject that has long been fraught with taboos," the newspaper said, saying the Hunan school was following in the footsteps of schools in bigger, more liberal cities such as Beijing and Shanghai.

Li Bian, deputy director of the AIDS Prevention Education Project for Chinese Youth, said the country had been waiting far too long.

"The level of sex education at middle schools, as well as at colleges and universities, has shown few signs of improvement, even though the country has stressed the need for education for years," he was quoted as saying.

Under Mao, sex became officially a matter of doing one's reproductive duty for the state.

Hunan was slower than most provinces in adopting the reforms implemented by Deng Xiaoping in the years that followed Mao's death in 1976.

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