New | Leading sexologist blasts China's poor sex education after attack during speech

A leading sexologist has criticised the lack of an official mainland policy supporting sex education, which he said has led to 99 per cent of Chinese adults being ill-informed on the subject.

Peng Xiaohui, a professor in the school of Life Sciences at the Central China Normal University, made the comments to the Beijing News after he had been slapped in the face by a woman, who also threw what was suspected to be faeces at him, last week while he giving a speech at the Guangzhou Sex Culture Festival.

The incident went viral on the internet, promoting heated debate about sex education and leading Peng to say: “I’ve been to too many speeches and seminars. This is the first time my being attacked in public.

“I was in shock and found it hard to fall asleep and eat the first few days after the attack. The physical pain is gone, but the mental trauma continues,” he said.

Peng said some Chinese anti-pornography websites had published photos of the attack and celebrated his humiliating experience.

“They treated my attack as fruits of their anti-porn battle. They used to call me a ‘pervert’ in television shows,” he told the newspaper. “Sexology is not pornography… No one can deprive my rights to teach and spread knowledge on sexology.”