i dont know what to say about china right now, whos worse communist china or fascist america???
Have sex, face 'softened penalty'!
Press Trust of India
Beijing, July 25, 2005
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Students caught having premarital sex in an elite university in China's gleaming metropolis Shanghai are expected to face 'softened penalty' if new rules are approved, the state media reported on Sunday.
According to trial rules being posted on the website of prestigious Fudan University, students found having premarital sex will receive a warning from authorities.
The original regulations in 2003 ruled that students who were convicted of sexual behaviour with more than two partners would be kicked out, Xinhua news agency reported.
Students becoming pregnant without being married will get no penalty, but be placed under observation in accordance with old rules. Prostitution is still strictly banned in the university and will result in expulsion, the new rules noted.
The punitive expulsion of those who accommodate or cohabit with sexual partners would be replaced with a warning or university supervision. "The changes pay more respect to the students' privacy, rights and interests, and provide them with more free space within the legal and moral spectrum," Xu Hailiang, a junior with the media department in Fudan.
Punitive measures cannot replace education, said the university authority, noting that draconian rules like expulsion highlight too much administration power and ignore the education's true service nature.
The revision of Fudan's old regulations came after the Education Ministry's decision in March to lift a ban on college students getting married or bearing children. Under new regulations that will take effect on September 1, the first day of the new semester in China, students of legal marriage age -- 22 for males and 20 for females -- will no longer need to get approval from university authorities to tie the knot.
Premarital or extra-marital sex used to be taboo in Chinese society. However, a recent survey shows that urban teenagers have their first sexual experience at the average age of 17.4, nearly nine years earlier than their predecessors.
The survey also revealed that nearly one out of five of the 2,252 respondents aged between 14 to 60 in seven major Chinese cities approved of premarital sexual relationships.
Sex products are available to almost everyone now in some big Chinese cities, from the Internet or in roadside shops. Automatic condom dispensers are available not only in more and more hospitals, but also, controversially, in some colleges and universities.
"The opening-up of Chinese society and the early arrival of puberty in the young generation have contributed to this change in sexual behaviour," said Prof. Zhou Xiaozheng, head of the Beijing-based Institute of Sociology of Renmin University.
It is necessary to revise some old rules to keep up with the social development, Fudan officials said, acknowledging that the university should fully respect students' legal rights.
In addition to the relaxed rules on premarital sex, Fudan is also loosening punishment over fraudulent practices in examinations. The university will take more efforts in education and indoctrination rather than implementing punitive measures against students' errors, the officials said.
The trial rules will start to receive public opinions as of September 1 after the website demonstration period, the report said.
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