Turning tables on sex taboos

Grace Lee Ming-yee, 24, spends her entire working day thinking about sex. She is an education officer at the Family Planning Association's office in Wan Chai. She has been working at the association for about two years, preparing educational material and giving talks on sexuality to school pupils, teachers, social workers and others. She is single and lives in Aberdeen.

What's on your mind? I'm preparing some scripts on sexuality education and then later I'm delivering a talk as part of our premarital service, in which couples can come here, listen to talks and have a body check-up before they get married.

We're launching a campaign on family sexuality education to try to raise the importance of education at home.

Sexuality education encompasses much more than just sex. It's not just physical, it's about psychological aspects and sociological issues such as interpersonal relationships, sexual orientation, pornography and unwanted pregnancy.

How long have you been doing your job? About two years and three months? How do you start? Is there a university course on sexuality? Actually, I studied comparative literature. Then, like many graduates, I just looked at the adverts in the paper.

So how do you learn about the subject? We have to pick up knowledge by ourselves. Of course, our education officer-in-charge gave us lots of training.