City insists book not for sexual education

BEIJING - The city's education authority has denied reports that Growing Steps is the city's first sex education textbook for primary and middle school students.

Controversy has raged over the book's frank descriptions of sexual intercourse and its explicit content, following reports that the book was to be tried out in 18 schools in Beijing. Some parents said it was pornography for kids.

However, according to Xian Lianping, spokesman of the Beijing municipal commission of education, the book will not be distributed to students or parents and there is no plan to introduce a textbook on sex.