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Ignorance underlies sex abuse (2)

By Yin Yeping (Global Times)

15:48, June 09, 2013

Scolding a middle school student

Zong hasn't always known how to handle sex abuse cases. Early in his career, he received a call from a middle school student, who said an older woman who lived in the neighborhood seduced him, and he didn't know how to handle it.

"The interesting thing about this boy was that he kept talking and was unwilling to let me help with his problem," said Zong. The person called several times, and each time would talk for over an hour. "This situation was still ongoing and he loved describing it to me over and over again," he said.

"Eventually I couldn't bear it any more so I rigorously condemned him." After that, the calls stopped.

At that time, Zong could not understand the caller.

"Now I know that he just wanted to find a listener to talk about his experiences so that he would feel relief," he said.

Zong has broken ground in China's sex education field by talking about sex frankly.

In one of the lectures he gives, he tries to break silence around this taboo subject.

"I ask my male students to write down every synonym of penis. Surprisingly there are usually enough to fill up a whole black board," he said.

The number of euphemisms shows how ashamed they are to say the word.

To overcome this shame, Zong asks the students to shout the word. "Students ask me to close the windows and doors before they agree," he said.

One time, after the male students repeatedly chanted the word, the president of the school came, and kindly warned the students not to say the word after class.

But a week later, Zong ran into the president, who happily reported the students lost interest in the word penis.

Zong Chunshan believes it is never too early to start talking about sex with children. Photos: Li Hao/GT and courtesy of Zong Chunshan


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