SEXUAL ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR OF CHINESE UNIVERSITY-STUDENTS IN SHANGHAI

A questionnaire survey on the sexual attitudes and behavior of Chinese university students in Shanghai was performed using the stratified ra ndom sampling procedure. Tile rates of masturbation and homosexual exp erience were much lower than those of the Western youths in the same a ge range. Their rate of petting was higher than that of the university students in other parts of China but their rate of coital experience remained low. Tile students showed permissive attitudes to dating, pre marital sex, extramarital sex and sexual chastity, but less so on mast urbation, homosexuality or pornography. The female students had low ge nder acceptance. How these findings could be understood in the context of a Chinese city undergoing rapid modernization and their implicatio ns for the future development of Chinese sexuality and sex education i s discussed.