The Comparative Research On Adolescents' Sexual Education In China And America

Sexual Education involves people's comprehension about sex,which refers tonot only sexual structure(anatomy,physiology,birth control,pregnancy,etc.),butalso human and moral problems that sexual relationship involves. It includes at leastsexual physiology,sexual psychology,sexual ethic,sexual law,etc,which aims tohelp people produce the attitude and behavior that the society and morality can accept.So it's a kind of long-term education for a person. For limited length,this paper onlystudies adolescents' (mainly students in primary and middle school) sexual educationin China and America.As a result of traditional thoughts,sexual education on adolescents is developingso slowly that it becomes the weak tache in basic education and results in theadolescents' sexual ignorance,sexual faults and sexual crimes. America is one of theearliest countries that develop sexual education in the world and it has plenty ofacademic and practical experience we can study and borrow from.The paper is divided into five parts:Preface gives a brief introduction about the background of making out thequestion,the theory value of the paper,practical significance,research methods,and definations of sex and sexual education.The first part is the history of sexual education in America and China.The second part is the comparison of sexual education in American and Chineseprimary and middle schools. Through the complete comparison,it's easy to find thatChinese sexual education in school should be improved urgently from every aspect.The third part is the comparison of sexual education outside school(concerning athome and in the society) in America and China. Compared with America,Chineseparents seldom conduct sexual education at home so that adolescents get less sexualknowledge. And mass media play a more negative than positve role in adolescents'sexual education,especially in America.The fourth part puts forward concrete and feasible suggestions on sexualeducation in schools,families and the society,trying to instruct a new sexualeducation with Chinese characteristics.