Tag / sexuality
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性欲望及其界限 – Sexual desire and its boundaries
Li Yinhe is China’s most famous gender and sexuality theorist. Her writings celebrate sexuality as a source of pleasure and personal growth, while insisting on ethical considerations. This piece offers a proposal for delimiting socially appropriate and healthy sexual behaviour.
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论激情 – About passion – 论激情 – English
Sociologist Li Yinhe reflects on the role passion plays in determining happiness – and how to live a happy passionate life.
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我为什么赞成惩罚婚内强奸 – Why I am in favour of punishing marital rape
Should marital rape be punished? Most certainly argues Li Yinhe – it aligns with the constitution, Chinese criminal law, and is only justified by the unfounded tradition of the patriarchy. A Chinese take on a contemporary quest for greater justice.
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古代鲜有强奸罪：受害妇女若告官九死一生 – Why were there fewer rapes in Ancient times
Very few cases of rapes have been recorded China’s history. No wonder, argues this piece – considering how much the legal system and regulations put blame on the victims.
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李银河谈为何越来越多人选择单身 – Li Yinhe discusses why more and more people choose to remain single
Statistics show that, over the past 15 years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of single people around the world. Individualism, gender equality, rising life expectancy and a change in our relationship to fertility are all factors in the trend. A non-judgemental approach to a contemporary phenomenon by sociologist Li Yinhe.
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少女援交与中国人的幸福 – Teenage girls’ ‘compensated dating’ and happiness in China
Xu Ben questions the happiness of underage prostitutes and Chinese men’s ‘second set of tits’. We can’t really question the opportunities these girls are striving for. But is the alternate future they’re reaching towards realistic, or even real?
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强奸案里的伦理与法律 – Ethics and Law in rape cases
Last year in a town in Shanxi, a court director discovered a strange phenomenon: the court had tried four consecutive rape cases, all of which were “date rape” cases. A meditation on victim-blaming with Chinese characteristics.
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论中国人的处女情结 – Chinese people and virginity
Sociologist Li Yinhe explores the changing – but ongoing – importance of virginity in the representations of contemporary Chinese young people.
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精神出轨 – Spiritual infidelity
What is worse – openly cheating on your wife, or spiritually drifting away? This is the question raised by this anonymous post on ShuDong – Treehole – inspired by the experience of meeting an old love, and feeling the flame still alive.
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同床好友 – Friends with benefits
Friends with, or without, benefits? There’s definitely a pressure – everywhere – for young people to sleep around. A boy and a girl can’t just talk, it seems. Some game needs to be played which revolves around sex. Here is a Chinese girl not necessarily wanting to give into that pressure. Arguably, this article could have been written by an American, English or Chinese person. The voice, the anxieties and the confusion are universal. Apart from the use of QQ, can anyone see anything distinctly Chinese in this text?
