{"id":11849,"date":"2024-08-26T09:14:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T09:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=11849"},"modified":"2024-08-26T09:25:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T09:25:37","slug":"hong-kong-defends-sex-ed-advice-that-includes-playing-badminton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=11849","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Defends Sex Ed Advice That Includes Playing Badminton"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Top officials in the Chinese territory have defended new sex education guidance that critics call regressive. Young people are amused.<\/p>\n

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A 15-year-old girl and her boyfriend are studying alone together on a hot summer day when she removes her jacket and clings to his shoulder. What should he do?<\/p>\n

In Hong Kong, the authorities advise the young man to continue studying or to seek a diversion, including badminton \u2014 to avoid premarital sex and other \u201cintimate behaviors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Critics, including lawmakers and sex educators, say that the Chinese territory\u2019s new sex education materials are regressive. But top officials are not backing down, and the standoff is getting kind of awkward.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs badminton the Hong Kong answer to sexual impulses in schoolchildren?\u201d the South China Morning Post newspaper asked in a headline<\/a> over the weekend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hong Kong teenagers find it all pretty amusing. A few said on social media that the officials behind the policy have their \u201cheads in the clouds.\u201d Others have worked it into sexual slang, talking about \u201cfriends with badminton\u201d instead of \u201cfriends with benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sex ed materials were published last week by the Education Bureau in a 70-page document<\/a> that includes worksheets for adolescents and guidance for their teachers. The document emphasizes that the lessons are not designed to encourage students to \u201cstart dating or having sexual behaviors early in life.\u201d It also advises people in a \u201clove relationship\u201d to fill out a form setting the limits of their intimacy.<\/p>\n

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Top officials in the Chinese territory have defended new sex education guidance that critics call regressive. Young people are amused.A 15-year-old girl and her boyfriend are studying alone together on a hot summer day when she removes her jacket and clings to his shoulder. What should he do?In Hong Kong, the authorities advise the young man to continue studying or to seek a diversion, including badminton \u2014 to avoid premarital sex and other \u201cintimate behaviors.\u201dCritics, including lawmakers and sex educators, say that the Chinese territory\u2019s new sex education materials are regressive. But top officials are not backing down, and the standoff is getting kind of awkward.\u201cIs badminton the Hong Kong answer to sexual impulses in schoolchildren?\u201d the South China Morning Post newspaper asked in a headline over the weekend.Hong Kong teenagers find it all pretty amusing. A few said on social media that the officials behind the policy have their \u201cheads in the clouds.\u201d Others have worked it into sexual slang, talking about \u201cfriends with badminton\u201d instead of \u201cfriends with benefits.\u201dThe sex ed materials were published last week by the Education Bureau in a 70-page document that includes worksheets for adolescents and guidance for their teachers. The document emphasizes that the lessons are not designed to encourage students to \u201cstart dating or having sexual behaviors early in life.\u201d It also advises people in a \u201clove relationship\u201d to fill out a form setting the limits of their intimacy.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11851,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11852,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11849\/revisions\/11852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}