If Parents In Taiwan Are OK With Their Kids' Sex Ed Class, Why Are Others So Upset?
Despite being one of the first places in Asia to recognize same-sex unions and require schools to teach sex education, Taiwanese society is having a hard time catching up.
Two dozen third-graders wiggle in their seats. Their attention is on their teacher — up front. He has a question for them: How many know about condoms? About half of the class raise their hands. The students are fixed on his talk — a lesson on sexual education and gender equality.
Everyone inside the classroom in Kaohsiung, Taiwan's second largest city, is captivated with this lesson. It's the people farther away — across the small island nation — that are not happy about this.
The class was captured in a 3-minute of the 80-minute course, in which the teacher wrote down "sexual intercourse behaviors between same-sex
