Schools in Beijing are doing about a piss-poor job in sex ed as parents in Utah home schooling their teens. Which is surprising, considering the whole one-child-per-family policy in China.

Like the moms and dads who believe the earth is only 4,000 years old and who actually take Sarah Palin seriously, Chinese educators are notorious for sticking their fingers in their ears and singing “Gong Li had a Little Lamb” when the subject of sex comes up.

From Slate:

Jerry Tseng, a friend who works in finance in Beijing, remembers his school’s sex-ed lesson well, but not for what he learned. That day, Tseng said, his teacher forced an assistant—who until then had not taught a single lesson—to lead the class. The younger instructor stood in front of the students red with embarrassment, unable to broach the subject. Eventually, the students were told to read the chapter themselves. This was the pedagogical method favored by many teachers; the dozen or so Chinese people I asked about this all had similar stories.

Oh, and according to Michelle Tsai’s Slate article on the lack of sex ed in the Middle Kingdom, Chinese college girls also like Sex and the City.

I’m sure her followup article is going to be about how men in China secretly mutter, “Fuck those bitches,” when their girlfriends force them to watch it with them.

Slate: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex (But Didn’t Learn Because You Grew Up in China)

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