To “control their sexual urges”: New Hong Kong directive rocks households
Hong Kong's education bureau considers the practice of premarital intercourse to be "deviant, regressive and disconnected". In order to raise awareness among young people and to subject them to self-discipline in their private lives, new guidelines have been issued.
Teenagers must now sign an educational form in which they commit to "self-discipline, self-control and resistance to por.n.ography", reports French media outlet La Dépêche. At the same time, young people aged 12 to 14 will have to remove all clothes deemed too "sexy" from their wardrobes. All this in order not to have intercourse before marriage and, thus, to promote so-called "correct" societal values.
Playing badminton, walking in a park and contemplating the flowerbeds or hitting a shuttlecock: this is what is recommended to young Hong Kongers to get rid of their sexual urges.
"How can [teenagers] book a court at such short notice to play badminton?" asks lawmaker Doreen Kong ironically in the columns of the British daily The Telegraph, relayed by La Dépêche. A parent of a student, a father, even confided to the BBC that he wanted to take charge of his children's sex education himself, accompanied by his wife, and not let the government govern it. A government that, according to him, is "still disconnected from reality".
(MH with AsD - Source: La Dépêche - Illustration: Unsplash)