Virginity and Premarital Sex in Contemporary China

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4868616
AutoresXiao Zhou (0000-0003-3445-306X, autor de correspondencia)
Año1989
Volumen15
Número2
Páginas279
Fecha de publicación1989-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0046-3663 • E-ISSN: 2153-3873
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3177788
OpenAlexW1695109738
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas22

Young women in China are presented with conflicting messages and values on the issue of premarital sex. Traditional insistence upon female virginity until marriage is an important social norm in China. While loss of virginity brings no spiritual guilt to the individual it dishonors the offending girls family and community. Premarital sex is therefore widely denounced. On the other hand there is growing social acceptance of close interactions between men and women. Such interaction provides young people with greater opportunity to explore love and have sex. This paper explores the traditional view of female virginity and love the strategies men use to persuade women to have premarital sexual intercourse and the social and institutional practices which perpetuate womens difficult dilemma in this period of Chinas transition from a sexually closed society to one which is more open

China · Human sexuality · Political science · Premarital sex · Sociology · Virginity test · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Sex work and related issues