The Chinese Society of Sex and the Chinese Sex Science Magazine jointly released the "Top Ten News Events Related to Domestic Sexology" for three consecutive years (2018-2020), which was unanimously praised by the media and the public.
This year, the Chinese Society of Sexology continued to organize experts to sort out the hot events related to "sexology" that caused heated discussion at home and abroad in 2021, and invited authoritative sexology experts such as Jiang Hui, Tong Li, Zhou Huiliang, Wang Cuntong, Zhang Meimei, Jiang Jianping, Bai Lu, and Hu Jiawei to comment on the incident. Finally, the following ten were shortlisted for the "Top Ten Domestic Sexology Related News Events in 2021"
Second, the National Bureau of Statistics released the "China Statistical Yearbook 2021", and the number of first-time marriages in China has dropped by nearly half in 7 years
Third, the Ministry of Public Security has struck a blow to severely crack down on illegal and criminal activities such as live pornography of minors
IV. "Sex Education" was first included in the Outline for the Development of Chinese Children (2021-2030)
V. From Fudan graduate students to Li Moudi, the violation of prostitution has once again aroused concern
Sixth, the cultural and popular science work of the Chinese Sex Society has achieved good results
7. The Ministry of Education replied to the two proposals on strengthening the sexual health education of mainland secondary school students and on strengthening the sexual health education of adolescents in the mainland
The 6th China Youth AIDS Prevention and Education Symposium was held in Beijing
Nine, Ali female employees "sexual assault case", set off a wave of attention to sexual harassment in the workplace
10. 95-year-old female academician Ye Shuhua encourages women to break the "glass ceiling"
I. The new version of the Law on the Protection of Minors came into effect, and "sex education" was included in the Mainland's "Regulations on the Protection of Minors in Schools" for the first time.
From June 1, 2021, the latest revised version of the Law on the Protection of Minors came into effect, which mentions that schools and kindergartens should carry out age-appropriate sex education for minors. This is the first time that "sex education" has been officially written into the legal provisions.
On June 1, 2021, the Ministry of Education held a press conference to announce the newly revised Regulations on the Protection of Minors in Schools, and decided to officially implement them from September 1, 2021. Article 42 of the Provisions on the Protection of Schools for Minors requires that schools should "carry out targeted adolescent education and sex education so that students can understand physical health knowledge, so as to further improve the awareness and ability to protect themselves against sexual assault and harassment." In the Provisions on the Protection of Schools for Minors, the term "sex education" was also officially included, which is another major breakthrough after "sex education" was written into the Law on the Protection of Minors.
Expert opinion
"Sex" is a sensitive and eternal theme, and due to the lack of systematic sex education, many people feel mysterious and curious about sex, but lack the ability to discern. Sexual information in the media is uneven, and bad sexual information can have a huge impact on many people's sexual concepts and sexual behaviors. Therefore, sex education is urgent and imperative. The mainland has always attached importance to sex education, especially in recent years, revised or formulated many laws and regulations related to sex education, such as the Population and Family Planning Law, the Law on the Protection of Minors, the Provisions on the Protection of Schools for Minors, and the Law on the Promotion of Family Education, which provide a strong legal guarantee for the development of sex education. The focus of the next step should be to formulate corresponding supporting programs, so that scientific and comprehensive sex education can be implemented, seek "sexual" blessings for the broad masses of the people, and truly popularize science, promote sexual health, build sexual harmony, and enhance sexual civilization.
The National Bureau of Statistics released the "China Statistical Yearbook 2021", and the number of first-time marriages in China has dropped by nearly half in 7 years
In November 2021, the National Bureau of Statistics released the "China Statistical Yearbook 2021", which disclosed data on population and other aspects. According to the China Statistical Yearbook 2021, the number of marriage registrations in 2020 totaled 8.1433 million pairs, a decrease of 1.13 million pairs compared with 2019. This is also the seventh consecutive year of decline since reaching 13.4693 million pairs in 2013, and a new 17-year low since 2003 (8.114 million pairs). Compared with the peak in 2013, the number of marriages in 2020 fell by 39.5%, nearly 40%.
Marriage registration data includes the number of first marriages and the number of remarriages, and the number of first marriages is more closely related to the number of births than the number of remarriages. 2013 was also the peak of the number of first-time marriages, reaching 23.8596 million. By 2020, the number of first-time marriages will be 12.286 million, down 48.5% in 7 years, nearly half. This is 9 percentage points more than the logarithm of marriage.
The decrease in the number of first-time marriages is a lagging reaction to the mainland's family planning policy and the one-child effect, and there are more complex social, economic, cultural and other reasons behind it.
(1) Family planning has been implemented for nearly 40 years, and the direct consequence is to reduce the population by 300 million to 400 million people, especially for women of childbearing age (15 to 45 years old). The total population of women of childbearing age is insufficient, which leads to a decrease in the number of first marriages.
(2) The population born during the family planning period is mostly only children, and the resources are relatively concentrated, which is manifested in the opportunity for education and the number of years of education have increased significantly, so that when they reach the legal age of marriage, most people are still studying or working outside the home.
(3) Economic development is the "best contraceptive pill", and the market "inner volume" has become the reason for not getting married. With the acceleration of urbanization and marketization process, the increase of economic pressure and the difficulty of market opportunities have led to major changes in the traditional concept of marriage and childbearing and the culture of marriage and love, which is manifested in the individualized development trend of the younger generation, more pursuit of career and life quality, resulting in a further increase in the proportion of infertility.
The Ministry of Public Security has struck a blow and severely cracked down on illegal and criminal activities such as live pornography of minors
In May 2021, the Ministry of Public Security held a press conference in Beijing, informing that it will resolutely promote the work of "eliminating pornography and cracking down on illegal and illegal activities" and severely crack down on illegal and criminal activities such as live pornography of minors, so as to maintain the good order of the cultural market and purify the social and cultural environment. The relevant responsible person of the Ministry of Public Security said that the public security organs will give full play to their functions and roles, solidly promote the work of "eliminating pornography and cracking down on illegal publications", severely crack down on all kinds of illegal and harmful publishing and dissemination activities in accordance with the law, resolutely sweep away all kinds of cultural garbage, effectively protect the physical and mental health of minors, and create a clean and healthy social and cultural environment.
In 2021, public security organs will use the special actions of "Nursery 2021", "Net Purification 2021" and "Autumn Wind 2021" as platforms to severely crack down on illegal and criminal activities such as rectifying online pornography and pornography, especially the dissemination of child pornography information, obscene pornographic cartoons, and illegal and criminal activities such as luring and forcing minors to live pornography.
Sex education is an important link in preventing and reducing the occurrence of pornography-related problems from the source, how to help young people understand the harm of online pornography, the essence of online pornography producers and disseminators, so that young people have the ability to judge and choose online pornography, is an important task of the current adolescent sex education neutral safety education. Sex education schools to do, parents to do, social media to do, the three parties to cooperate with the public security department, not only to create a healthy and clear network environment for teenagers, but also to let teenagers have "fire eyes" and the action of the unity of knowledge and action, so that the network truly becomes an assistant for the growth of teenagers!
IV. "Sex Education" was first included in the Outline for the Development of Chinese Children (2021-2030)
On September 27, 2021, the State Council issued the Outline for the Development of Children in China (2021-2030), which sets out clear goals and strategies in the "Children and Health" section, of which the 12th target is "universal access to sex education for school-age children, and significantly increased accessibility to children's sexual health services." Item 14 of the strategic measure is "To provide sexual education and sexual health services to children." Guide children to establish correct gender and moral concepts and correctly understand gender relations. Integrate sex education into the basic education system and quality monitoring system to enhance the effectiveness of education. Guide parents or other guardians to carry out sex education in accordance with children's age stage and development characteristics, strengthen education on preventing sexual abuse, and raise children's awareness and ability to protect themselves. Promote close collaboration between schools and healthcare facilities to provide child-friendly sexual health services and protect the privacy of children visiting the doctor. Establish a child sexual health protection hotline. This is the first time that "sex education" has been written into the Outline for the Development of Chinese Children.
2021 is a landmark year for sex education in China, when the Law on the Protection of Minors and the Outline for the Development of Chinese Children (2021-2030) include sex education for the first time. In the 2011-2020 edition of the Outline for the Development of Chinese Children, only the term "sexual and reproductive health" is mentioned, while the new edition clearly emphasizes the three words "sex education". In addition, in the "Outline for the Development of Chinese Children (2021-2030)", it is also clearly stated that the effect of sex education should be monitored and the effect of education should be enhanced; it also puts forward requirements for family sex education: "Guide parents or other guardians to carry out sex education according to the age stage and development characteristics of children". In this decade, we have every reason to believe that the mainland will continue to increase its attention and promotion of sex education, and the prospects for sex education are bright.
V. From Fudan graduate students to Li Moudi, the violation of prostitution has once again aroused concern
Two incidents of prostitution in 2021 have attracted widespread media and public attention. In September 2021, three Fudan University graduate students were expelled from the school for prostitution, sparking discussions online. In October 2021, pianist Li Moudi was detained by Beijing police for prostitution. People's Daily said: The former "piano prince" appeared on the list of artists who violated the law and lost morality, which is lamentable. The black and white piano keys are not allowed to involve "yellow"; life is the right way, and it is not allowed to go crooked. The more public figures, the more they need to cherish the "feathers", once they fall into the "thorns", it is difficult to turn over; once they destroy the human design, no matter how high the skill, they cannot play sadness. Only by revering virtue and abiding by the law can we have a future.
Compliance with the law is the responsibility and obligation of every citizen. For those who have achieved good results in some fields, they should be more strict with themselves, whether it is Fudan graduate students or Li Moudi have paid a price for their actions. Some say that the price is too heavy, some say that their privacy should be protected, some people clap their hands and applaud, some psychologists analyze the motives and reasons behind prostitution, and sociologists discuss how to punish prostitution and prostitution, whether it is too light or too heavy, but no matter how to analyze, adults are responsible for their own behavior. So, they were caught, punished, and not wronged.
Sixth, the cultural and popular science work of the Chinese Sex Society has achieved good results
In 2021, the Chinese Society of Sexuality science publicity work blossomed more, popular science network live broadcast "2021 network most concerned about the top ten andrology issues" widely concerned by all sectors of society, under the strong voice of the majority of netizens, the Chinese Society of Sexuality has successively launched the Chinese Doctor's Day special live broadcast, Qixi special live broadcast, while innovatively launched the male health science works exhibition monthly activities, for hundreds of millions of people popularized male health knowledge; "There is happiness in the first month", "Seven days of happiness during the holiday", "Happiness big coffee said" And other popular science series programs have received strong responses and rave reviews; "Jiang Hui Live Talks About Gender" and "Oh My Emergency Brake" and other popular science videos launched in cooperation with new media platforms such as Tencent, Today's Toutiao, and Station B have been viewed more than 100 million times; during the Men's Health Day, President Jiang Hui made a guest appearance in the CCTV "Population" column and the Healthy China Live Broadcast Room to talk about the "male" topic far from healthy fertility, popularizing men's health knowledge for 2.2 million people.
The 23rd National (Guangzhou) Sexual Culture, Adult Products and Health Products Expo (hereinafter referred to as the Sexual Culture Festival), jointly organized by the Chinese Society of Sexology and other units, was held in Guangzhou from October 30 to November 1, and the theme of the expo was: "Health Together, Sexual Happiness Together". The three-day activities of the Sexual Culture Festival were colorful, many high-quality brands gathered, industrial advantages were highlighted, the content of the forum was rich and colorful, diverse ideas gathered, the public benefited a lot, and the crowds on the scene surged forward. According to incomplete statistics, during the three days of holding the festival, the major official media reported more than 300 articles, the number of live broadcast viewers reached one million, the provincial and municipal television stations broadcast and replayed a total of more than 50 times, all walks of life gave full affirmation to the activities of this sexual cultural festival, the evaluation is very high, the objective reports of the media have promoted the benign development of the sexual cultural festival, and have been recognized and praised by the society, and its impact is extensive and far-reaching.
On November 13, Chairman Jiang Hui recorded a short video "Men Also Have the Best Age for Childbearing" topped the Weibo hot search list, which was read more than 370 million times by the public in just over a day, and as many as 22,000 netizens discussed it, and a total of 119 media outlets have released this health video. In recent years, under the leadership of the Chinese Society of Sexuality, China's andrology industry has made great progress, and Chinese men's health science has blossomed all over the country. Andrology can be on the hot search, indicating that the concept of social progress and healthy China is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and health, especially reproductive health, has become a hot topic that the people are increasingly concerned about.
The discipline of sexuality has always been the content that the masses eagerly expect and need, in the context of the new Internet media, how to do the best science popularization work? How to vividly and interestingly transform obscure professional knowledge into language that the people can understand, how to choose the appropriate propaganda method, etc., these are the great challenges faced by all discipline workers. Professor Jiang Hui dares to innovate, not only can use the traditional television media, but also good at combining new media, such as vibrato, B station, live broadcast and other forms of andrology, sexual medicine popularization, unremitting innovation, not only won the support and love of the public, but also by the China Association for Science and Technology and other institutions recognized, which is worth every expert and teacher engaged in sex science and technology workers to learn.
Vii. The Ministry of Education replied to two proposals, "On Strengthening Group Sexual Health Education for Mainland Secondary School Students" and "On Strengthening Sexual Health Education for Adolescents in mainland China"
In November 2021, the official website of the Ministry of Education published replies to two proposals, "On Strengthening Sexual Health Education for Mainland Secondary School Students" and "On Strengthening Sexual Health Education for Adolescents in Mainland China". In its reply, the Ministry of Education clearly stated that sexual health education is an important part of school health education, and strengthening sexual and reproductive health education is of great significance to improving students' health literacy and promoting students' all-round development. In the next step, the Ministry of Education will continue to strengthen sexual and reproductive health education for adolescents in schools, revise the Guiding Outline of Health Education in Primary and Secondary Schools, deepen the supply-side reform of sexual health education in schools, improve the curriculum, teacher allocation, system guarantee, evaluation system, improve the teaching methods and methods of sexual education, enrich the carrier, form, channel, content and method of sexual health education, improve the teaching quality of sexual health education and students' sexual health literacy, and do a good job in science popularization around adolescent growth and development and adolescent health care. Actively encourage the development of adolescent sexual and reproductive health science popularization work, encourage relevant institutions and personnel to create relevant articles, videos and audio science works, and disseminate more outstanding adolescent sexual health education science works.
Schools are the most important places for adolescents to learn outside of their families. At present, school sex education on the mainland is constrained by factors such as the lack of class hours, the lack of teachers and teaching materials, and is still in a serious state of inadequacy. Only one chapter in the Junior High School Biology class in the Sujiao version of the textbook introduces the physiological development of adolescence, which is obviously far from enough. A large number of practices have proved that only by incorporating comprehensive adolescent sexual health education into the school education system can the comprehensive quality of adolescents be comprehensively improved. The positive response of the Ministry of Education to the proposal has provided solid policy support for schools to carry out adolescent sexual health education, which is an important effort made by the Ministry of Education in many aspects such as the physical and mental health, rights and personal dignity of minors. With the support of policies, the sex education curriculum carried out by schools will surely usher in a more systematic and scientific curriculum system.
8. The 6th Symposium on AIDS Prevention and Education among Chinese Adolescents was held in Beijing
On November 27th, the 34th World AIDS Day was co-sponsored by the Social and Legal Affairs Committee of the CPPCC National Committee and the China Youth AIDS Prevention and Education Engineering Office, co-organized by the China Economic and Social Council, and undertaken by the Beijing Youth Love Education Foundation, the 6th China Youth AIDS Prevention and Treatment Education Work Forum was held in the auditorium of the CPPCC National Committee. The theme of the symposium is: Protecting Adolescents, Universal Sex Education, ending AIDS. Zhang Qingli, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of the China Economic and Social Council, attended the forum. In the final session of the symposium, Kang Hui, host of CCTV and the image spokesperson of the Qingai Project, read out the "Declaration on ending AIDS Sex Education and Humanistic Education Popularization Activities" on behalf of the Qingai Project, and the activity plan is to use 5 years to popularize publicity education and humanistic education nationwide, so that everyone knows the harm of AIDS and keeps everyone away from the source of AIDS infection. The leaders and representatives of various ministries and commissions joined hands to help the "Aids Eradication Sex Education and Humanities Education Popularization Activity"!
Sex education in 2021 has received more attention and support. The theme of the Sixth China Youth AIDS Prevention and Treatment Education Symposium not only put forward the goal of ending AIDS, but also involved the concept of universal sex education and protection of adolescents, which also shows to a certain extent that sex education is becoming more and more important. AIDS prevention and treatment has never been inseparable from sex education, AIDS prevention is also an indispensable content of sex education, only in adolescents and children to help them understand AIDS, learn to prevent AIDS, in order to change the risk awareness of a generation, really do a good job in the prevention and control of AIDS, which is much better than the "dead sheep" intervention for college students and adults, the effect is much better. It is also expected that in the new year, the sex education of adolescents and children will receive more attention and support to escort the healthy growth of children.
Nine Ali female employees "sexual assault case", set off a wave of attention to sexual harassment in the workplace
On August 7, 2021, Ali's female employees reported that they were forced to travel, drink alcohol and sexually assaulted by the company's superior Wang Mouwen, and were molested by male merchant Zhang Mou at the liquor bureau, triggering public opinion. For a while, topics such as workplace PUA, sexual assault, and sexual harassment sparked discussions. On August 25, 2021, the Huaiyin District Bureau of the Jinan Municipal Public Security Bureau submitted to the Huaiyin District People's Procuratorate of Jinan City for review and approval of arrest on the suspicion of forced indecency by criminal suspect Zhang Mou and Wang Mouwen for suspected forced indecency. On September 6, 2021, the People's Procuratorate of Huaiyin District, Jinan City, Shandong Province, after review in accordance with law, found that the forced indecency committed by criminal suspect Wang Mouwen did not constitute a crime and did not approve arrest.
The "farce" of Ali female employees in 2021 reminds us of two points. 1, pay attention to sexual harassment in the workplace, the protection of women requires the participation of the whole society. Alibaba's initial indifference and avoidance were the beginning of this farce, but it also reflected people's current attitudes towards sexual harassment in the workplace. 2, in the discussion of sexual issues, people are easy to bring feelings, prejudices, easy preconceived choices and judgments. Don't let go of a bad person, don't wrongfully accuse a good person, respect the facts, respect the law. Sex is a thing that easily ignites the media and public opinion, but what is the truth? What is the real image? Only by not being manipulated by public opinion, calmly and rationally using the weapon of law can we protect everyone.
10 95-year-old female academician Ye Shuhua encourages women to break the "glass ceiling"
On November 4, 2021, "95-year-old female academician encourages women to break the glass ceiling" ranked first on the national hot search list. The protagonist of this hot search is the famous astronomer who presided over the establishment of "Beijing time", the first female director of the mainland observatory, and the honorary director of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician Ye Shuhua. "If you want to be equal, you have to fight for it." At the 4th World Top Scientists "She" Forum, Academician Ye Shuhua gave a speech in English, encouraging women to break the "glass ceiling" and strive for equality between men and women with actions. "As long as we women try to do better, the status of women will become higher and higher." Academician Ye Shuhua said.
The speech of 95-year-old female academician Ye Shuhua at the "She" forum was moving. In academician Ye's speech, it was particularly emphasized that equality between men and women does not mean that women should be stronger than men, but that equal opportunities should be enjoyed. This sentence tells the true meaning of gender equality. In recent years, there have been voices on the Internet questioning, now that women's status is higher than that of men, why are they still demanding gender equality, and what do women really want? But in fact, as Academician Ye mentioned in his speech: female scientists are actually more difficult than male scientists. Female scientists have to take care of housework, take care of the elderly and children, make families harmonious, and work hard in the workplace to take care of everything. Of course, not only scientists, I believe every woman has a deep understanding of this. Therefore, gender equality is never about engaging in male and female antagonism, emphasizing who has more status, but when men and women live together in this society, it is not easy to understand each other, understand each other's dilemmas, understand each other, and support each other, which is the real gender equality.
Member of the Expert Committee on the Review of the Top Ten News Events Related to Domestic Sexology in 2021:
Jiang Hui is the president of the Chinese Society of Sexology, the proposed chairman of the Asia-Pacific Association of SexualIty Medicine, the president of The Journal of Chinese Sexual Science, the director of the Department of Andrology of the Third Hospital of Peking University, a second-level professor, and a doctoral supervisor
Secretary General of Tong Li Chinese Society of Sexuality, Editorial Board Member of Chinese Sex Science Magazine, Director of Training and Certification Department of Chinese Society of Sexology
Zhou Huiliang, Vice President of the Chinese Society of Sexuality, Chairman of the Male Reproductive Medicine Branch of the Chinese Society of Sexuality, Director of Andrology, Chief Physician and Professor of the First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University
Wang Cuntong, director of the Chinese Society of Sexuality and chairman of the Health Big Data Branch of the Chinese Society of Sexology, is currently working at the Central University of Finance and Economics, engaged in research and teaching in the fields of social statistics, econometric analysis, and population health
Zhang Meimei is the director of the Adolescent Sexual Health Education Committee of the Chinese Society of Sexuality, an associate professor of the School of Psychology of Capital Normal University, and the president of the Beijing Sexual Health Education Research Association
Jiang Jianping is a director of the Chinese Society of Sexuality, a vice chairman of the Sex Education Committee of the Chinese Society of Sexology, and a professor of the College of Life Sciences of Fujian Normal University
Bai Lu Is the Secretary-General of the Adolescent Sexual Health Education Committee of the Chinese Society of Sexology, and the leader of the Teacher Training Program for Chinese-Dutch Sex Education Experts
Hu Jiawei, Secretary-General of family sex education branch of Chinese Society of Sexuality, founder of ProtectIng Doudou, master of public welfare management at Peking University, graduate student, best-selling author, published work "Important Sexual Influence on Children's Lives"