About 41 percent of Chinese teenagers said they learn about sex from the Internet, according to a survey released on "World Contraception Day," which fell on Wednesday.
The results show that social networking sites and Internet forums are teens' favorite online sources for information about sex, followed by books, magazines, friends and schools.
"There have been improvements in sexual education for teenagers, but not all students receive it and the accuracy of the information is not guaranteed," said Min Yuefu, an expert with the Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences.
The survey revealed that about 48 percent of some 180 million young Chinese citizens aged between 15 and 24 have had sexual experiences and only 49 percent used condoms during their first sexual experience.
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