Word: liu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people used to say last year that if you wanted to play on the team," Anna Liu says, "all you had to do was try out, and you would make...
...antidote? Liu prescribes information, information and more information. He lectures frequently on sex, has written 30 best-selling books on love, sex and marriage, and helped start a new magazine called Sex Education. Largely as a result of lobbying by Liu and his colleagues, the state has agreed to fund experimental sex-education courses in 6,000 middle schools across the country. Contrary to the views of conservative elements within the party leadership, educators see China's sexual reawakening not so much a threat to public morality as a sign of progress. "If people are not hedonistic to a degree...
...Liu, who sometimes lecture together, share a philosophy that owes more to common sense and The Joy of Sex than to Marx. Liu, for example, does not condone premarital sex, but he considers it a fact of life for up to 30% of Chinese youth. The trend, he often explains to parents, is a consequence of China's "one couple, one child" policy of population control. The late marriages and subsequent late births encouraged by the policy, he believes, "do not conform to the physiological development of human beings." People reach their sexual prime toward the end of their teens...
...people. Many unmarried women are thus driven to seek dangerous back-alley abortions rather than risk the scandal that would arise from exposure of their illicit affairs if they chose legal channels. "If we teach them how to prevent pregnancies, maybe premarital sex will become even more common," frets Liu. Still, Dr. Wu labels Beijing's stand hypocritical, pointing out that government hospitals in the Special Economic Zone of Shenzhen, near Hong Kong, have become profitable abortion mills by guaranteeing confidentiality to affluent women who cross the border into China for the operations...
Although authorities refuse to admit officially that homosexuality exists in China, they tend to regard homosexuals as criminals. Police have closed down at least one bar that had become a hangout for gays in Shenzhen. "Usually, acts of homosexuality are treated as acts of hooliganism," reports Liu. His advice for handling such sexual taboos: face them realistically, rather than with superstition and criminal penalties. "We want to expose people to the germ to increase their resistance to the disease," he says...