Myanmar attitudes to sex undressed in textbook row

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A new textbook in Myanmar for the coming academic year included scenarios such as teenagers feeling intimate over homework, a gay couple whose condom breaks, and a customer at a karaoke bar offering a waitress money for sex.

Unchaperoned teens, gay partners and sex workers - fictional characters in a new curriculum for Myanmar schools are causing a real-world tussle over morality in a deeply conservative nation.

But embarrassed teachers often sideline a subject tackling everything from periods and contraception to sexually-transmitted diseases The ensuing online tit-for-tat saw a young doctor, who accused the clergy of hypocrisy, attacked by a mob and later jailed for 21 months for insulting Buddhism. The party condemned the classes as encouragement for premarital sex, child rape, and the"arousal of sexual desire" among children.

 

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