COMMIES ARE SUCH PRUDES: Fighting Sexual Temptation? Play Badminton, Hong Kong Tells Teenagers. M Top officials in the Chinese territory have defended new sex education guidance that critics call regressive. Young people are amused. “Hong Kong teenagers find it all pretty amusing. A few said on social media that the officials behind the policy have their ‘heads in the clouds.’ Others have worked it into sexual slang, talking about ‘friends with badminton’ instead of ‘friends with benefits.'”

Even in Czarist Russia, they pushed free love until they took over, then went all Victorian.

But given China’s birth-rate problems, I’d expect them to be encouraging more canoodling, not less.