‘Virginity battle’: Chinese women caught between old and new sexual values

Dec 7, 2025 | INVESTING

A research project about changes in family life over three generations has found that traditional values still play a key role in sexual relations in China, and women often struggle amid tensions between old and new.
One of the areas of conflict is what researcher Liu Jieyu has called a “virginity battle”.
Influenced by Western liberal attitudes, many younger Chinese men are open to premarital sex, and they often pressure their girlfriends to have sex while dating, according to Liu’s new book,…

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