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Sex education for first graders in China

Chinese kids are starting early these days. Someone over at the PCPop.com forum with a nephew attending first grade looked through his textbooks one day and was shocked at what sex education for first graders looks like in China these days — fun... ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Fri, Oct 10 2008

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