The education bureau suggests teens who want to have sex could "go out to play badminton together" instead.

It may be an innocent enough racquet sport, but Hong Kong’s Education Bureau has unintentionally given badminton a whole new meaning.

In teaching materials it released last week, a module titled adolescents and intimate relationships for Secondary Year 3, suggested that teenagers who wanted to have sex with each other could “go out to play badminton together” instead.

The materials also include a form called “My Commitment” aimed at getting “young lovers” to attest that they would exercise “self-discipline, self-control, and resistance to pornography”.

  • @paysrenttobirdsEnglish
    31•21 days ago

    This reminds me of the time, in college, when a Christian fellowship leader gave us all a list of alternatives to sex, including

    1. Passing chocolate from mouth to mouth
    2. Naked wrestling…
  • jay
    15•21 days ago

    We finally figured out why Linus is so deep into badminton.

  • Yer MaEnglish
    9•21 days ago

    TIL it’s not called “badmitten”

    • ericattyEnglish
      5•21 days ago

      Today I read your comment twice before I realized my brain had autocorrected all badminton to badmitton

      • @w2tpmfEnglish
        2•20 days ago

        Big time Mandela Effect.

  • @[email protected]English
    9•21 days ago

    These modules FROM THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT look like a power point lesson plan that I would have done in college.

    However, the learning goals are very progressive. This part is what should be taught about sex everywhere:

    Whenever a behaviour occurs, it is often accompanied by an activating event (including people, circumstances, events) and a consequence.

    Also, the unit on myths vs. reality. This is important stuff that doesn’t get taught in the US, due to conservative prudes and it’s my opinion that the sexually uneducated end up causing sexual abuse.

    • @threeganziEnglish
      1•21 days ago

      I admittedly haven’t read the material, but your quoted text sounds very vague and indirect. Perhaps there was more content that was more direct and concrete.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•21 days ago

        Yeah, I wonder where you could look it up? Maybe in the link OP posted above. Or you could just comment and look stupid, it’s up to you.

        • @threeganziEnglish
          4•21 days ago

          Yeah, I admittedly chose the latter :)

  • @[email protected]English
    3•20 days ago

    I played badminton with a friend and their girlfriend a few days ago. Guess in HK that’d pass as a euphemism.