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Business school adding sex education for "ignorant" Asian students
Nov 18, 2010, 19:31 GMT
Wellington - A private New Zealand business school will add sex education to its curriculum next year because many students from Asia are 'sexually ignorant', according to managers quoted in a newspaper on Friday.
The 450 students at Concordia Institute of Business, Auckland, will be required to attend sex education classes to help them 'cope with the new-found freedom of living away from the controls of their parents', director Isaac Phua told the New Zealand Herald.
'Lack of sexual knowledge is especially true for students from Asia, where formal sex education is not a norm at schools and where the topic is generally taboo.'
He said many international students shared accommodation, putting them in a situation where they 'could easily fall into temptation.'
Auckland University researcher Elsie Ho told the paper she believed many of the 2,875 ethnic Asians reported to have had abortions in 2008 were international students.
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