ISBN:
9780415376327
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (204 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge Contemporary China Series v.6
Parallel Title:
Print version Sex, Science and Morality in China
DDC:
306.7/0951
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
After decades of near silence on the matter, sex is being talked about in China. But what is being said? Who is allowed to speak? And whose purposes are being served?This ground-breaking book takes a critical look at how sex in China is thought and talked about. Drawing on the work of the country's foremost sex experts, and years of research in the field, it gives an overview of the sexual landscape in China today.Including new material on transsexuals, fetishism, sex aids and pornography, the book shows that the dominant ways of thinking about sex are neither innocent nor inconsequential, and
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Researching the book; A naturalized order for sex, gender and marriage; 1 The sexed body and naturalized gender difference; Part one: blurred boundaries; Intersexuals; Transsexuals; Part two: gender and the mandates of the body; Hotline advice on biological imperatives; Norms for female beauty; 2 The sexual body and its normal function; Marriage manuals and sexual anatomy; The male sex organs; The female sex organs; Metaphors for sexual desire
Description / Table of Contents:
Masters and Johnson, the sexual function and sexual dysfunctionsMasturbation; Expert advice on sexual normality; 3 Sexual dysfunction and treatments in sex shops and sex clinics; Sexual dysfunction and biomechanics: vibrators; Chen Kai's sex clinic; Viagra and its imitators; Biochemical treatments for premature ejaculation; Biochemistry for women; 4 Controlling sex outside marriage, eugenics and quality children; Part one: controlling sex outside marriage; The dangers of adolescence and the role of sex education; The dangers of premarital sex; The hymen and the first night
Description / Table of Contents:
Proscriptions on extra-marital sexPart two: quality children; Eugenic restrictions on marriage; The premarital health check; Undesirable births, devalued beings; 5 Marriage manuals and instructions for harmonious sex; Appropriate frequency for sex; Preparation for sexual activity; Foreplay; Intercourse; Orgasm; 6 'Sexual abnormality': homosexuality, pornography and fetishism; Part one: homosexuality; Legal, medical and academic approaches to same-sex eroticism; Pressures to marry; Part two: the use of pornography; Pornography: definitions and dangers; Anti-pornography campaigns
Description / Table of Contents:
Part three: fetishism7 The sale and purchase of sex; Prostitution and its meanings; The legal position; Tiers and types of prostitutions; Condoms, STIs and AIDS; The policing of prostitution; Conclusion; Character list; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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