New city sex education text targets families

SHANGHAI - The publisher of the city's first sex education textbook for primary schools, the release of which last year was a source of controversy, has put out a new edition tailored for family use.

Titled Boys and Girls, which is the same as the first printing, the new edition will work as a complement to the previous. And it's more suitable for parents and children to read together, according to Zhang Zhijun, an editor from Shanghai Education Publishing House, who worked on the book.

"Last year's textbook stirred much controversy, and some parents complained about it. But after using it for some time, many parents have begun to applaud it," Zhang said.