西学东渐与中国近代性教育的兴起

中国现代意义上的性教育兴起于20世纪初叶,与包括性学在内的西学引进有着密切联系。20世纪二三十年代,性教育达到了一个繁荣期,性教育图书和文章大量涌现,性教育内容正式写入教科书,性教育课程开始出现。性教育的兴起与近代教育转型有许多相似之处,受西方思想影响的知识分子是其积极推进者,从日本转口引进性教育思想为显著特征之一,教育界人士在此过程中扮演着先锋角色,而西方人来华宣传则对此起到有力的推动作用。性教育在20世纪上半叶出现与时代主题之间存在着某种契合关系,独立、民主、富强及与之相关的民族主义、个性主义、科学主义思潮通过性教育都得以曲折体现,性话语的兴起某种意义上是近代中国人追求解放和自强的反映。 

On the Influx of the Western Learning and the Advent of Sex Education in Modern China

The modern sex education in China sprung up in the early 20th century. It occurred at a time when China was increasingly influenced by the Western learning. Sex education became prosperous in the 1920s and 1930s, when a large amount of pertinent literature was published. The curricula standards issued by the educational administration ineluded sex education in it, and such courses as physiology and health education also had sex education as a part of its content. Knowledge about sex became popular in schools. Sex education was introduced to China by intellectuals who were affected by western learning. Japan was a medium in this course and educators played a crucial role in sex education. Sex education that appeared in the early 20th century is intrinsically related to the theme of the times. Independence, democracy, prosperity and the corresponding ideas of nationalism, individualism and scientism are all reflected in sex education, The initiation of discourses about sex represents the pursuit of the intellectuals for the prosperity of the nation and individual liberty.