Not long ago, a set of data released by the National Population and Family Planning Commission showed that China has as many as 13 million abortions every year, ranking first in the world. Among them, women under the age of 25 account for more than half, and college students have become the "main force" of abortion.

College students’ sexual concepts are becoming more and more open, which is an inevitable result of social development. However, excessively open sexual concepts not only pose health risks, but also affect the stability of marriage and family, and even cause a lack of social responsibility. A series of social problems caused by changes in sexual concepts are deeply worrying and deserve widespread attention and thinking from the whole society.

A quarter of the students in a class live together

Contemporary college students are becoming more and more open-minded, which has basically become the "consensus" of the current society. Recently, a survey in Guangdong Province showed that 48% of college students approved of "premarital sex between lovers." A sample survey of college students' sexual attitudes conducted by several universities in South China showed that nearly 40% of college students do not mind whether their partners are virgins (or virgins).

Recently, a reporter from "Life Times" visited and found that college students' sexual concepts are becoming increasingly open, which can be seen through the "facilities" around the school. Donghu New Village is a large-scale urban village in Wuhan. One entrance of the village is completely connected to the campus of a famous university in Wuhan. The villagers have built self-built buildings of different heights. They are not only for the villagers to live in, but they also carry another important "function" - whenever night falls, many college couples go in groups after classes. In Donghu New Village, they usually have dinner at a small restaurant in the village, and then walk side by side into a simple rental house to spend the night. Li Min (pseudonym), who is still in her junior year of college, is a member of the off-campus renting group. She initially wanted to rent a house to study for the postgraduate entrance examination so that she could study late at night. Then her boyfriend proposed living together, saying that they could take care of each other and share the rent, so she agreed. Li Min did not tell her parents about this "cohabitation life". "About a quarter of the students in our class live outside." Li Min said that they do not think living together is a strange thing, and many people are accustomed to it.

In the Shenbei University Town in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, there are four or five large universities. The signs of "Houses for Daily Rent" and "Houses for Monthly Rent" on the roadside have become an eye-catching "landscape". The facilities around the campus are not perfect, but various small hotels and daily rental houses are quite prosperous, serving mainly students in the university town. In the evenings and weekends, the hotel becomes lively, with student couples hand in hand and going in and out freely. When there are many people, you may even need to make a reservation in advance. The owner of one of the hotels said: "When the winter and summer vacations come, we will be closed here. It is mainly open for students, and few other people come to stay."

On October 10, reporters came Went to Beijing Foreign Languages ​​School and Beijing Normal University and conducted random interviews with more than 20 students. Most of the students said they were acceptable for premarital sex and understood the behavior of college students going to hotels. One classmate even said bluntly: "College students can get married in school, and we now have the power to choose these options." When the reporter investigated the two schools, he found that the notice boards had information on daily rentals and monthly rentals. At a real estate agency near the school, the agent said frankly that more than half of the renters in the community near the school are students, and most of them are couples renting together. On a certain university's forum BBS, there is a special section for rental information. The reporter found that there are many information on it from male and female friends seeking to rent a house or share a house.

Chen Nan (pseudonym) would never have imagined such a scenario more than ten years ago. In 1990, Chen Nan graduated from university. She recalled that it was difficult for college students at that time to even talk about falling in love. “We had basically zero knowledge about sex at the time, and we were too embarrassed to let others know when our classmates were in love, let alone having sex before marriage.” According to a survey conducted by the National Population and Family Planning Commission, nearly 70% of Chinese people have premarital sex, compared with only 16% in the late 1980s. Chen Nan heard that a few of her seniors got pregnant before marriage, and some even committed suicide by jumping off a building. "It's not like today's children who start living together when they go to school."

Not long ago, a set of data released by the National Population and Family Planning Commission attracted widespread attention from all walks of life. The data showed that China's annual artificial There are as many as 13 million abortions, ranking first in the world, of which women under the age of 25 account for more than half, that is, more than 6 million people. College students have become the main force of abortions. Some obstetricians and gynecologists even lamented that the number of abortion surgeries in hospital obstetrics and gynecology departments increases every year during the winter and summer vacations. Some even call August "Summer Student Abortion Month."

The hidden worries behind the openness of sexual concepts

So, what are the reasons for the change in college students’ sexual concepts? Yang Xiong, director of the Youth Research Institute of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, told the Life Times reporter that there are many reasons. First, there are changes in the social environment. With the development of the economy, the overall moral values ​​of society have gradually become looser. Divorce, cohabitation, one-night stands and other things are no longer "out of sight", or even commonplace. Social tolerance has led to changes in people's values. College students who are in a period of ideological change are more likely to accept these views and form an indifferent attitude towards "sex". Second, it is affected by the development of the Internet. A survey shows that the Internet is the first channel for teenagers to obtain sexual knowledge. The development of the Internet has also given rise to a variety of products with strong sexual implications, such as virtual love. Third, adolescents generally mature physiologically prematurely. The improvement of living conditions is reflected in the fact that children are more nutritious, the physiological development period is advanced, and the period of more than ten years between physical development and legal marriage age is called the sexual blank period. On the one hand, channels are needed to release physiological needs. On the other hand, the trend of late marriage is becoming more and more intense, and college students are among them, which has also led to the opening of sexual concepts.

When more and more college students follow the trend and accept open sexual behavior, few people pay attention to the hidden worries behind it.

Weak awareness of sexual safety. Xu Zhenlei, director of the Youth Sexual Health Education Professional Committee of the Chinese Sexology Society, said that due to the lack of formal sexual knowledge and correct values, college students have a weak awareness of sexual safety. According to the "Research Report on Sexual and Reproductive Health of College Students in Guangdong Province in 2010", only 34.30% of college students wear condoms every time during various sexual behaviors. There are many health risks associated with unsafe sex. 16.96% of the college students surveyed had "genital diseases", including inflammation, sexually transmitted diseases, and some were even diagnosed with AIDS.

Lack of social responsibility. Xia Xueluan, a professor of sociology at Peking University, told reporters that "sex" is a pure and beautiful thing, and it can be said to be a serious matter, but some college students regard it as an entertainment or even a game. College students are the talent reserve of society. Once they bring this "playing life" attitude to work and future social life, it will inevitably cause them to lack a sense of historical and social responsibility, and be indifferent to major events in social life, which is not conducive to the development of society. develop.

Reduced marital fidelity. Open sexual concepts will have a great impact on individuals seeking marriage and the stability of marriage. If sex is regarded as a very casual thing, the sense of sanctity, dignity and commitment of marriage will be reduced, and problems such as the breakdown of marital loyalty and marital conflicts will break out.

Cause psychological anxiety. Some women break up with their boyfriends. Not only do they find it difficult to accept the fact that they have lost their virginity, but they may also suffer from depression and other emotional disorders, or even commit suicide. Similarly, many boys want to be responsible for the woman after having sex, but their current personal conditions are not up to par. However, there are also varying degrees of psychological anxiety.

Abortion can easily cause female infertility. If you do not pay attention to safety during sexual relations, there may be dangers such as unmarried pregnancy, miscarriage, and infectious diseases. Experts remind that artificial abortion affects women's reproductive health in many aspects, especially repeated abortions, which are more serious. Some complications may occur in the short term, such as bleeding, infection, irregular menstruation, chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, etc. In the long term, they may be more harmful. 92% of repeated miscarriages will lead to secondary infertility.

Comparison is common, but parents foot the bill. Some experts say that many college students now have a serious mentality of comparison and showing off when they fall in love. Their love consumption is far beyond their ability to bear, and their parents basically foot the bill. According to a survey, nearly 75% of college students' love expenses come from living expenses provided by their parents, and only about 25% said they can meet their love expenses through part-time jobs and other methods.

Chinese universities lack systematic education

In the context of information openness and globalization, China is in a period of social transformation and is also facing the "sexual liberation" of the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. Worry sprouts. How to guide college students to establish good sexual concepts is a thought-provoking question.

Yang Xiong believes that "premarital sex" should be diverted and diverted to guide young people to protect themselves and vent their desires reasonably. In addition to classroom education, there are many ways to penetrate the concepts, knowledge, and correct methods of sex education in school management and family life.

Xu Zhenlei emphasized: “Adolescent sexual health education must also pay attention to cultural sensitivity, because China’s culture and society are different from other countries. We should develop corresponding sexual health content based on the needs of adolescents at different stages. , guide them from the perspectives of emotional, physiological, sexual knowledge, etc., so that they can learn to be responsible for themselves, others, and love. In this process, we also need to learn from foreign countries that focus on the cultivation of ability decision-making, including interpersonal skills and love skills. , life skills, etc., so that college students can learn love knowledge and skills and be able to cope with it after having sex.”

For this reason, experts call that it is imperative for colleges and universities to set up sex education courses, so that college students can have sex. Receive scientific and systematic sex education. Li Jiangxue, director of the Psychological Counseling Research Center of South China Normal University, who has participated in conducting surveys on college students' sexual concepts, said that the purpose of sex education is not only to impart sexual knowledge to teenagers, but more importantly, to enable them to establish correct sexual attitudes and form good sexual attitudes. Sexual morality.