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China teens casual about one-night stands: poll
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BEIJING, (Reuters Life!) - More than half of
China's high school students find nothing wrong with
one-night stands and an overwhelming majority of girls
would not reject a boyfriend's demands for sex, a poll
suggests.
Some 6.2 percent of the survey's 2,300 high school
students in Xuanwu, a downtown district in the Chinese
capital of Beijing, had already had a sexual
experience and the average age of students losing
their virginity was 15, the China Daily said on
Thursday.
The results surprised educators, the newspaper said.
"The new generation is open-minded about sex," Zhang
Meimei, a professor at Capital Normal University who
was involved in the survey conducted last year, was
quoted as saying.
"We can only conclude that it is a result of a
fast-changing society."
China's traditional culture sanctifies abstinence and
the ruling Communist Party is also officially
puritanical, but three decades of market reforms have
brought forth an ever more rebellious and diverse
urban youth culture.
Of the 1,300 girls asked if they would agree to sex
when asked by a boyfriend, only six gave a definite
"no."
"The typical answer: 'As long as he loves me, it's
OK'," the newspaper said.
About 200 respondents of both sexes said they would
have a one-night stand if the opportunity arose, it
added.
Such liberal attitudes to sex have sparked concerns
over safe sex, with more than 40 percent of
respondents who had had sex saying they did not use
contraceptives for their first time, the China Daily
said.
Underage girls accounted for about a quarter of the
1.5 million abortions in mainland China every year,
and teenage pregnancies were on the rise, the
newspaper said.
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