Li Yinhe talks about sex

Chapter 6 Sex is no longer a luxury

The practical significance of doing sex research in China is to help every Chinese get rid of poverty and pain as soon as possible, and enjoy a happy life.

Since 1840, the ancient China was poor and weak, lagging behind the West in every aspect, and presented to the world with an image of poverty, sickness, and suffering.In an ancient civilization like ours with a long and rich history and culture of 5000 years, people live in such misery, poverty, and unhappiness.Life is only a few decades, but people live a miserable life because they were born in this country, how sad it is.In a poverty-stricken society where food and clothing are not enough, sex is a luxury. Sexual demands will not be raised, and people will not notice whether they have sexual pleasure.This is why the issue of sexuality in the 30 years before the reform and opening up has never entered people's field of vision.

One thing touched me a lot.It was at the beginning of the reform and opening up. An ordinary Chinese scholar got a chance to visit the United States. His itinerary was arranged in the eastern United States. There are the best porn shows, and he actually spends a disproportionate amount of his meager income to travel thousands of miles to see a show.This example shows how repressed sexuality is in our society to the point where people think it's worth doing such absurd things.From this case, I feel sad how pitiful and oppressive the life of the Chinese people is. Such a pitiful desire in life has to go to the other side of the earth and pay such a high price to realize it (fortunately he is a visiting scholar, if he is a cadre, He also has to pay the price of being criticized and punished for this).Will the Chinese always live in such a pitiful life?
值得庆幸的是：事情正在起变化。最近20年是中国历史上社会变革最大最快的20年。根据一位美国学者的统计：英国几乎用尽了整个19世纪使其人均国民收人增长了25倍；在1870年至1930年间，美国花去了60年时间使其人均国民收入增长了35倍；日本在1950年到1975年这25年间使其人均国民收入增长了6倍；而只有中国人均国民收入的增长是最快的：从1979年开始的20年间增长了7倍。这20年，我们的社会在从解决温饱到富裕起来的道路上迅疾地跑过了其他国家走了几百年的路。这20年不仅是中国历史上发展最快的20年，或许也是全人类和全世界有史以来一个大国发展变化最快的20年。

Such a large change in material living standards cannot fail to affect the changes in people's ideas.Sexual needs, which were considered luxuries in the past because the low-level needs of food, clothing and safety could not be solved for a long time, have now inevitably entered the field of vision of society.It is against this background that the needs of Chinese people in various fields of sex are put on the agenda. For ordinary Chinese people, happiness will no longer be just a luxury, but a desirable and attainable goal.Foucault once believed that a change of regime is not necessarily a revolution, but an increase in the calorie intake of ordinary people may be a real revolutionary change.Applying his ideas, can we think that the improvement of the happiness of ordinary Chinese people is more important and more revolutionary than many so-called "big events"?
The Chinese people have always believed that eating and drinking men and women can keep people's great desires alive.Chinese people who have solved their dietary problems and satisfied their sexual desires will be happy people and will enjoy a happy and high-quality life.The Chinese people will abandon the image of being sick and suffering for more than a hundred years, and present to the world a healthy and happy image.The practical significance of doing sex research in China lies in this: to make every Chinese get rid of poverty and pain as soon as possible, and enjoy a happy life.

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