导读:近日，杭州萧山一位二年级孩子的妈妈在其微博上吐槽学校发放的《小学生性健康教育读本》，称教材尺度太大，并晒出含有“男女生殖器相关介绍”的图片，引发网友热议。
A post on Weibo this week by a mother complaining about the blunt language and graphic illustrations in an elementary school textbook on sex education given to her child has sparked a debate on Chinese social media.
最近，一位母亲在微博上抱怨孩子小学的性教育课本语言过于直白，且配图过于露骨，引发媒体各界热烈讨论。
"Is it reasonable for a textbook to be compiled like this? I myself would blush looking at it," the mother, from Hangzhou in east China’s Zhejiang Province and identified only by her username @Xinnianggenzhuagnyingzi, wrote on the Weibo social networking platform.
浙江省杭州市一位二年级孩子的妈妈——微博名为“新娘跟妆莹子”在微博上吐槽道：“这本书这样编辑真的好么？我自己都看不下去了。”
Pictures alongside her post showed the textbook featured not only illustrations of the reproductive organs and of two people having sex, but also portrayed discussions about sexual harassment.
其微博上发表的图片显示，教科书的配图为发生性行为两人的生殖器官，同时还配有关于性骚扰的相关讨论内容。
The post has now stirred up a heated discussion online, with some expressing concern that the content may have a negative psychological impact on young children, while others welcomed what they said was a long overdue infusion of sex education in the country.
该微博引起了网友们的热烈讨论，有些人担心这些内容会对孩子产生负面的心理影响，但有些网友则对其持认同态度，并表示国内早就应该对孩子们进行性教育。
A netizen, @yuansuiyuewukehuitou, backed the school and the publishers of the textbook in a post that was liked over 850 times. "There are so many sexually ignorant people across the country. Instead of avoiding telling children about it, what we should do is to help improve their understanding about sex so that they can better protect themselves."
微博名为“愿岁月无可回头”的网友则公开发帖表示支持学校和出版社，该微博被点赞850余次。该用户提到：“国内有很多不懂性的人，我们不应该去阻止孩子知道这些知识，反而应该帮助他们提高对‘性’方面的了解，从而能够更好保护自己。”
User @Liulangxiaowu agreed, noting that "teenagers would otherwise resort to other improper methods, including watching pornography, to get the information if we hold back appropriate sex education all the time."
另一位名为“流浪小屋”的用户则表示赞同，并表示：“如果不适当进行性教育，孩子们很可能会另辟不恰当途径，比如看色情片等来获取相关信息。”
The Beijing Normal University Publishing Group, which published the book, told Chinanews that the materials involved underwent strict scrutiny.
该读本出版单位北京师范大学出版社在接受《中新网》报道时则回应道：相关材料都已经经过了严格审查。
Zhang Meimei, director of the Sex Education Research Center at Capital Normal University, noted however that schools should inform parents when using such textbooks so that they can also promote understanding about the issue at home.
北京师范大学性教育研究中心主任张玫玫则表示，学校应该事先针对此教材和家长进行沟通，由此家长们也能够在家里进行相关教育和指导。
Sex has traditionally been a taboo subject in China, and schools and parents often find it difficult to talk to youngsters about it, so that sex education has lagged behind even though young people are increasingly having sex before marriage, and a growing number of child sex abuse cases have hit the headlines.
“性”这个话题曾一度在中国成为禁忌话题，学校和家长不知如何向孩子们开口讨论此事。因此，性教育在国内十分落后，越来越多的年轻人都会有婚前性行为，性虐儿童的案件也屡出不鲜。
According to the China Social Assistance Foundation, over 500 child sex abuse cases were reported by the media in 2014.
据中国社会救助基金会表示，2014年被媒体报道的性虐儿童事件就有500多起。
A survey conducted in 2010 by the Population Research Institute at Peking University also found that among unmarried young people aged 15 to 24, 22.4 percent had sex and half of them did not resort to contraception at their first time. "Sex education in the country is at a standstill," Jin Wei, an executive member of the Chinese Association of STD and AIDS Prevention and Control already told Chinanews in 2011.
北京大学人口研究中心研究人员在2010年进行的研究调查发现，在年龄在15到24岁中间的未婚年轻人之中，有22.4%已有过性行为，这些人之中半数在第一次都未采取任何避孕措施。中国性病和艾滋病防治协会的执行委员靳伟则在2011年接受《中新网》记者采访时就提到过：“中国的性教育一直停滞不前。”
A textbook on sex education, the first of its kind in Shenzhen in south China’s Guangzhou Province, was even pulled out after being tried out for months in 2003, after many schools rejected it.
广东深圳的性教育课本在2003年曾试行了几个月，因许多学校拒绝该课程后惨遭取消。
