ALTHOUGH the Chinese community has become more open about sex, a taboo in the Chinese culture for centuries, many cadres are still against sex education, according to an expert in sex psychology.
In a recent interview with the Science and Technology Daily, Yu Jisheng, an associate researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Psychology Institute, said there were many obstacles in the way of sex education development.
'People often put the blame for sexual misconduct on educators. A considerable number of cadres and people have a strong bias against sex education,' he said.
Mr Yu said although the mass media had often run sex education programmes, the extent of information offered in townships and rural areas still lagged far behind the cities.
He also emphasised that sex education in universities remained a 'blank page', even though many secondary schools had already started courses on 'puberty education'.
The lack of qualified sex education teachers was also a serious problem, Mr Yu said.
The first teachers' course started a month ago at the Capital Teachers' University in Beijing.
