Ma Yexuan, Chen Sikky Shiqi, Eleanor Holroyd, Wong William Chi Wai
Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 3/F, Ap Lei Chau Clinic, 161 Main Street, Ap Lei Chau, Hong Kong SAR, China.
School of Clinical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
Arch Sex Behav. 2025 Feb;54(2):589-604. doi: 10.1007/s10508-024-03015-z. Epub 2024 Nov 18.
The feminist approach to sexuality education challenges and changes power dynamics and inequalities embedded within sexuality, while social media serves as a tool for building online communities and raising awareness about feminist issues. Adopting a feminist approach to sexuality education, particularly through social media platforms, remains largely unexplored and underdeveloped. In China, where traditional sex education is often limited and stigmatized, sexuality has been influenced by a complex interplay of traditional gender norms, evolving social attitudes, and state intervention. The aim of this study was to evaluate both sex educators and their online followers' perceptions of the implementation of social media-based sexuality education using a feminist approach in China. Semi-structured online interviews were carried out with 10 educators and 18 young followers, followed by thematic analysis using NVivo. The findings indicated that social media-based sexuality education using a feminist approach might be used to help disrupt oppressive norms about gender and sexuality and foster a positive attitude toward women's sexuality. Chinese online sex educators strategically avoided the term "feminism" and creatively evaded censorship and spread their messages in alignment with government policies while advocating for gender equality. However, participants also highlighted the existence of barriers, including internal conflicts, gender imbalances, social stigmatization, and political constraints, which needed to be addressed in order to effectively implement this approach.
女性主义性教育方法挑战并改变了性观念中所蕴含的权力动态和不平等现象，而社交媒体则成为构建在线社群以及提高对女性主义问题认识的工具。采用女性主义方法进行性教育，尤其是通过社交媒体平台来开展，在很大程度上仍未得到充分探索和发展。在中国，传统性教育往往受到限制且带有污名化色彩，性观念受到传统性别规范、不断演变的社会态度以及国家干预等多种因素的复杂相互作用影响。本研究旨在评估中国性教育工作者及其在线追随者对采用女性主义方法开展基于社交媒体的性教育的看法。对10名教育工作者和18名年轻追随者进行了半结构化在线访谈，随后使用NVivo进行主题分析。研究结果表明，采用女性主义方法开展基于社交媒体的性教育或许有助于打破关于性别和性的压迫性规范，并培养对女性性观念的积极态度。中国的在线性教育工作者策略性地避免使用“女性主义”一词，创造性地规避审查，并在倡导性别平等的同时，按照政府政策传播他们的信息。然而，参与者也强调了障碍的存在，包括内部冲突、性别失衡、社会污名化和政治限制等，要有效实施这种方法就需要解决这些问题。
