A survey out on Monday shows that two out of three Chinese are
tolerant towards pre-marital sex, China News Service reported.
Chinese people's general attitudes toward sex are more liberal
and tolerant compared with six years ago, the socio-sexology
institution of Renmin University of China said in a report about
the survey conducted from July to November last year to explore
changes in Chinese people's sex lives.
Among the 6,010 interviewees from 21 provinces with ages ranging
from 18 to 61, 63.78 percent didn't think premarital sex was a
moral issue, compared 55.69 percent in 2000.
Totally 60.3 percent of the female interviewees showed their
tolerance towards premarital sex, which was up 11.3 percentage
points from 2000, while two thirds of middle-aged respondents
accepted the view.
The survey also said more than 70 percent of people whose
incomes above the average nodded to the issue.
Pan Suiming, the head of the institution, said about 70 percent
of the domestic social or cultural elites accepted pre-marital sex,
the fastest growing group in the past six years of all the social
classes.
The survey, hosted by Pan, interviewed people from different
social groups with different occupations, including the middle
aged, the middle class, white-collars, cadres, office clerks,
technical staff, teachers and officials.
Pan said more attention should be paid to people aged above 27
who are still single and live without sex and who accounted for 30
percent of the total.
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(Shanghai Daily June 4, 2007)