How did the sexual concept of adults in China evolve?

The positive effects brought by the sexual revolution include: respecting women's sexual rights, ensuring free communication between men and women, combating and preventing rape and sexual harassment, popularizing sexual knowledge, preventing sexually transmitted diseases and sexual dysfunction, protecting the sexual rights and interests of the elderly, the disabled and the mentally retarded, and advocating contraception and prenatal and postnatal care. In the long history of human development, people are surprised to find that sex is not only an instinctive reproductive purpose, but also a source of happiness and a spiritual enjoyment. Therefore, based on sex, many concepts about sex, such as sexual feeling, aesthetic feeling, sexual morality, etc., all stem from different psychological and cultural constraints. Social problems such as marriage and family came into being. From the perspective of the history of sexual culture, human sexual concept has undergone four major changes: first, sexual mystery and sexual worship in the period of ignorance. At first, human's understanding of sex became stronger than the mystery of sex, and developed into two extremes: crazy sex worship and severe sex taboo. The worship of male and female genitals, sexual intercourse and reproduction caused by sexual mystery is a common cultural and historical phenomenon in the history of the development of all nationalities in the world. Primitive people's worship of sex is not the kind of pornography today, nor is it crazy lewdness, but a strong experience of the will to life, reflecting the production of human beings-the reproduction of species. When human beings indulge in singing the ode to life of sexual worship, they also create their own opposite-sexual taboo. Incest taboo is the most important and oldest sexual taboo of human beings, which prohibits sexual intercourse between blood relatives. Incest taboo is neither biological instinct nor unconscious inheritance, but exists as an objective requirement of ecological and social environment and changes with it.

Second, the reproductive morality during the farming period. Sexual activity must be dominated and restricted by marriage, which is the most basic sexual morality in agricultural society, otherwise it will not be tolerated and accepted by society. Once this basic sexual morality was produced, it had a strong vitality and lasted for thousands of years until it entered the modern industrial society. If we say that the sexual evolution of human beings born out of the animal kingdom is the first sexual revolution in human history; Then, the establishment of basic morality in agricultural society is the second sexual revolution that human beings actively choose and promote. In agricultural society, reproduction is the sole purpose of all sexual activities, and sexual activities that violate this purpose are defined as immoral. As a kind of social morality, the concept of sexual reproduction purpose is bound to tend to asceticism. Third, the sexual concept of abstinence and indulgence is chaotic. Human beings have experienced a long history in a state of sexual repression. There was a relatively loose sexual love period in ancient China, but it was quickly replaced by the asceticism of Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties, and it continues to this day. In the west, there was also an era of sexual hedonism, but with the rise of Christianity, sexual hedonism was denounced as sensualism or lewdness and had to turn to asceticism. It can be said that before the 1960s, all regions and nations that accepted Christ or were greatly influenced by western civilization accepted Christian sexual asceticism to some extent. This has become a grand and long-standing sexual cultural phenomenon with world historical significance. 4. The sexual revolution in the west began at the end of19th century, and the new Christian culture established in western Europe and North America since17th century, especially the Victorian fashion in19th century and its fierce confrontation with traditional ideas and sexual ethics, are all marked by the sexual revolution in the west. In the 1960s, the American sexual revolution reached its peak, affecting all parts of the world.