Lilith
07-20-2006, 01:39 PM
(gg)
HANOI (Reuters) - The straight-laced government of
communist-run Vietnam, where pornographic Web sites
are banned, plans to offer dowloadable movies on an
Internet site to educate married couples about healthy
sex, a newspaper said on Thursday.
The official English-language Vietnam News quoted
Khuat Thu Hong, Deputy Director of the Institute for
Social Development, as saying "an orthodox sex Web
site" would help couples learn more about "healthy
sexual intercourse."
Hong cited cases of married couples who had not had
sex for a year, a rising divorce rate and rampant
prostitution as reasons to publicize more information
about sex.
The images offered on the Web site, yet to be named,
would be only educational, Hong added.
The Ministry of Culture and Information recently
ordered Internet shops to install software on all
computers to monitor customers and stop them from
surfing pornographic sites.
While prostitution and abortions are widespread, sex
remains a taboo subject in schools and in the home.
The Vietnam Family Planning Association estimates
around 1.4 million abortions are performed annually in
Vietnam, which has a population of 83 million, due to
a lack of sex education among teenagers and
contraceptive use.
HANOI (Reuters) - The straight-laced government of
communist-run Vietnam, where pornographic Web sites
are banned, plans to offer dowloadable movies on an
Internet site to educate married couples about healthy
sex, a newspaper said on Thursday.
The official English-language Vietnam News quoted
Khuat Thu Hong, Deputy Director of the Institute for
Social Development, as saying "an orthodox sex Web
site" would help couples learn more about "healthy
sexual intercourse."
Hong cited cases of married couples who had not had
sex for a year, a rising divorce rate and rampant
prostitution as reasons to publicize more information
about sex.
The images offered on the Web site, yet to be named,
would be only educational, Hong added.
The Ministry of Culture and Information recently
ordered Internet shops to install software on all
computers to monitor customers and stop them from
surfing pornographic sites.
While prostitution and abortions are widespread, sex
remains a taboo subject in schools and in the home.
The Vietnam Family Planning Association estimates
around 1.4 million abortions are performed annually in
Vietnam, which has a population of 83 million, due to
a lack of sex education among teenagers and
contraceptive use.