Controversial: The ‘Life Skill’ textbook for the coming academic year in Yangon has stirred a heated debate over sex education in Myanmar. — AFP
Unchaperoned teens, gay partners and sex workers – fictional characters in a new curriculum for Myanmar schools are causing a real-world tussle over morality in a deeply conservative nation.
In Myanmar, sex out of wedlock is illegal, teenage dating is frowned upon by censorious elders and same-sex relations are still officially illegal.
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