No more secrecy on sex in cyber era

Teachers of a Nanjing children's camp coming to teach sex education to kids in Shanghai this summer must be puzzled about what to say now that some major websites and search engines have been charged with spreading pornographic information.

The messages out there are quite conflicting.

On the one side, angry parents and youth have been condemning the widely available sex and pornography content in cyberspace as "spiritual opium" that is poisonous to children. Some have threatened lawsuits against the search engines for leading or misleading people to these links. Even the Ministry of Health has vowed to make websites on sex-related studies and research accessible only to health professionals and researchers starting July 1. A penalty of up to 30,000 yuan or criminal sentencing is also proposed for violators.