Try abstinence.”Advertisement Continue reading the main storyFor contemporary Chinese girls, the story line was dangerous, she said. Premarital sex has a “tremendous negative psychological and physical impact on girls.”These are some of the assertions in a sex education textbook approved by a provincial education department in China that has led to an outcry on social media. In some Asian countries, including South Korea and Japan, sex education is compulsory. In schools where there is rudimentary sex education, the message for girls is often abstinence, women’s rights campaigners say. Anatomy is commonly taught as a substitute for sex education.

Source: New York Times June 28, 2016 16:52 UTC