(REUTERS) 12 January 2007:

Taiwan is considering a bill addressing the sex education of teenagers. The feeling is that in a society that hopes to foster gender equality, sex education should not place the onus of refusing to have sex upon teenage girls. Boys should be equally responsible.

A possible response to that idea is that those complaining have never actually met a teenage boy in full hormonal rampage but that in itself would be a sexist comment.

One further controversial suggestion by school headmasters is that sex education should promote chastity and abstinence. The response from one first year high school student was instructive. Why teach us about abstinence when our parents already say that all the time? Which rather proves the point about teenage boys, wherever they hail from.