Sex, Science and Morality in China

by McMillan; Joanna

• ISBN13: 9780415376327
• ISBN10: 0415376327
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

"Sex, Science and Morality in China provides a detailed examination of the work of China's foremost sex experts from 1999 to 2005. It analyses the knowledge they are producing - knowledge that sets out natural ways of being a man or woman and sees monogamous marriage as the most advanced form of social bond and scientific sex as the basis for family and social stability." "Including groundbreaking material on transsexuals, fetishism, sex aids and pornography, this book seeks to qualify claims of a sexual liberalization in China. It shows that the knowledge that sex professionals are producing is neither innocent nor inconsequential and that amid catalogues of prescriptions linking self-management to the collective good, people are making decisions about how to live their sexual lives. Sex, Science and Morality in China will be essential reading for scholars of Chinese studies, cultural studies and gender studies."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
List of abbreviations	xi
Introduction	1	(7)
Researching the book	2	(2)
A naturalized order for sex, gender and marriage	4	(4)
1 The sexed body and naturalized gender difference	8	(16)
Part one: blurred boundaries	8	(7)
Intersexuals	8	(3)
Transsexuals	11	(4)
Part two: gender and the mandates of the body	15	(9)
Hotline advice on biological imperatives	15	(3)
Norms for female beauty	18	(6)
2 The sexual body and its normal function	24	(16)
Marriage manuals and sexual anatomy	24	(1)
The male sex organs	25	(3)
The female sex organs	28	(2)
Metaphors for sexual desire	30	(2)
Masters and Johnson, the sexual function and sexual dysfunctions	32	(2)
Masturbation	34	(2)
Expert advice on sexual normality	36	(4)
3 Sexual dysfunction and treatments in sex shops and sex clinics	40	(16)
Sexual dysfunction and biomechanics: vibrators	41	(3)
Chen Kai's sex clinic	44	(4)
Viagra and its imitators	48	(4)
Biochemical treatments for premature ejaculation	52	(1)
Biochemistry for women	53	(3)
4 Controlling sex outside marriage, eugenics and quality children	56	(21)
Part one: controlling sex outside marriage	56	(1)
The dangers of adolescence and the role of sex education	56	(13)
The dangers of premarital sex	63	(2)
The hymen and the first night	65	(2)
Proscriptions on extra-marital sex	67	(2)
Part two: quality children	69	(8)
Eugenic restrictions on marriage	69	(2)
The premarital health check	71	(2)
Undesirable births, devalued beings	73	(4)
5 Marriage manuals and instructions for harmonious sex	77	(13)
Appropriate frequency for sex	80	(2)
Preparation for sexual activity	82	(2)
Foreplay	84	(1)
Intercourse	85	(2)
Orgasm	87	(3)
6 'Sexual abnormality': homosexuality, pornography and fetishism	90	(21)
Part one: homosexuality	92	(7)
Legal, medical and academic approaches to same-sex eroticism	93	(4)
Pressures to marry	97	(2)
Part two: the use of pornography	99	(7)
Pornography: definitions and dangers	100	(2)
Anti-pornography campaigns	102	(4)
Part three: fetishism	106	(5)
7 The sale and purchase of sex	111	(17)
Prostitution and its meanings	112	(2)
The legal position	114	(2)
Tiers and types of prostitution	116	(3)
Condoms, STIs and AIDS	119	(5)
The policing of prostitution	124	(4)
Conclusion	128	(3)
Character list	131	(9)
Notes	140	(16)
Bibliography	156	(33)
Index	189