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Post by Bozur on Feb 19, 2007 21:10:04 GMT -5
World Briefing | Asia: China: Survey On Teenage Sex Surprises Educators
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A survey of 2,300 high school students in the Xuanwu district of Beijing found that half said there was nothing wrong with one-night stands and that an overwhelming majority of the girls would not reject a boyfriend's request for sex, The China Daily reported. The survey also found that six percent of the students had already had a sexual experience and that the average age of students losing their virginity was 15. 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, was quoted as saying. ''We can only conclude that it is a result of a fast-changing society.''
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Post by Bozur on Feb 19, 2007 21:13:47 GMT -5
World Briefing | Asia: China: Alarming Resurgence Of Syphilis
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Syphilis, all but eliminated in China between 1960 and the early 1980s, when China opened its international borders, has returned with a vengeance and urgent intervention is needed to curb the epidemic, say researchers in China and the United States. In a study to be published today in The Lancet, they said the total incidence of syphilis in China increased to 6.5 cases for every 100,000 people in 1999, from fewer than 0.2 cases for every 100,000 in 1993. ''The data demonstrates a syphilis epidemic of such scope and magnitude that it will require terrific effort to intervene,'' said the lead researcher, Myron S. Cohen, a professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The study linked the re-emergence to economic reforms and globalization, a ''climate that favors prostitution due to a substantial majority of men and a large migrant population of male workers,'' and changing sexual attitudes. The researchers based their report on data from China's National Center for Sexually Transmitted Disease Control.
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