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Straight Talk on Sex in China

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By far the largest study is the Shanghai Sex Sociological Research Center's National Sex Civilization Survey. Using 500 volunteer social workers, the center obtained responses from 23,000 people in 15 provinces to a 240-question survey. The project is the Chinese equivalent of Alfred Kinsey's landmark studies of sexual behavior in the U.S. Liu Dalin, the study's director and China's best-known sexologist, agreed to discuss his findings with TIME before they are published. Results from a smaller survey of 1,279 men and women in 41 cities, conducted by sociologist Pan Suiming of the People's University of China, were recently presented at a World Health Organization conference.

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Predictably, out-of-wedlock pregnancies are on the rise. In response, the government has taken a practical, if not exactly approving, stance toward the problem. Only a few years ago, unmarried pregnant women were fired from their jobs and forced to have publicized abortions. Now they are allowed to get abortions confidentially.

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As in many other cultures, men often get more satisfaction from sex than women do, especially in rural areas. In Liu's survey, 34% of the couples living in the countryside (as opposed to 17% in the cities) said they engaged in less than a minute of foreplay or none at all. Partly as a result, 37% of the rural wives reported having pain during intercourse. Observes Liu: "The males are so rude as to give their partners no time to warm up." Pan found that men reached orgasm about 70% of the time, in contrast to 40% for women.

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