Controversial expos help diffuse sex education
- By Huang Yinyin
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Chinese Dama throw eggs at Japanese sex video actress at the Reproductive Health Industrial Expo in Dalian on August 1, 2014. [Photo: ycwb.com] |
Some Chinese Dama have been protesting against the Reproductive Health Industrial Expo in Xi'an of Shaanxi province and Dalian of Liaoning province. The Dama, or middle-aged women deeply influenced by Chinese tradition, have delivered fiery speeches outside the expo hall in Xi'an during the opening ceremony and even threw eggs at models and performers at the Dalian expo.
The protests by Dama, which became a specific term to describe middle-aged women when many of them rushed to buy gold as an investment when prices fell last year, against so-called eroticism centers on three core issues: Western conspiracy theories, traditional Chinese theory of chastity and the belief that eroticism is a social evil.
The Western conspiracy theory is an old argument based on ideology and opposed to the corrosive influence of Western culture (that is, capitalistic lifestyle). Such theories were popular from the 1950s to the 1970s in China, but do not cut much ice with people born after the launching of reform and opening-up.
Quite a few people, however, agree with the traditional Chinese theory of chastity because they believe such expositions don't conform to the social milieu of China where people have traditionally had a prudish attitude toward sex. But theories and novels written in ancient China show that the country used to have a rich "sex culture". And some Western scholars have even criticized the sexual repression in modern times by citing the openness enjoyed in ancient China.
The contention that sex education (which the Dama mistake for eroticism) is a social evil is related more to demonology and less to sexology, which has found its way in many articles and websites. Examples of such a concept: masturbation is harmful to health and homosexuality will hinder human development.
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