Studying love, sex now must in China

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/Studying-love-sex-now-must-in-China/articleshow/10001611.cms

BEIJING: China's Ministry of Education has ordered all higher educational institutions to make 'sex and love' course compulsory from this year.

A psychological course, including sex and love, will be compulsory for university students starting from this September. The ministry asked universities nationwide to develop a compulsory mental health course for students in all grades in June this year, a senior official of the ministry said.

"The reason why the ministry decided to make the courses compulsory was that most university students are advised to seek help or seek psychological guidance because of the heavy pressure on them," he said.

The new compulsory course consists of seven parts, he said. Besides the sections about sex and love, it also involves curriculum to deal with other psychological problems such as how to deal with pressure and frustrations in life and studying.

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1. You have to wonder if this is really about the imbalance between young males/females.

There's a huge imbalance - I think it's something like 100MM more young men to available young women due to the 1 baby policies initiated decades ago and the resultant value placed on having male heirs. The social effects on such an imbalance have to be a concern to the Chinese government. There is a huge prostitution industry in China and it's not hard to figure out why.