This study aims at exploring sexual discourse among Hong Kong college students - how do Hong Kong college students talk about sex. Through sexual discourse, a better understanding of students' awareness and perceptions of social norms and conventions, as well as their own needs, feelings and behaviours regarding sexuality could be obtained. Qualitative research method was used in this study, in which twenty-eight college students in three local universities were interviewed and five underground student newspapers were collected. This study shows that: (1) There were cultural norms and conventions which defined sex in moral terms. (2) Students' sexual discourse revealed both conformers -- who complied with the cultural norms; and resistors -- who resisted the cultural norms. Among the re...[ Read more ]

This study aims at exploring sexual discourse among Hong Kong college students - how do Hong Kong college students talk about sex. Through sexual discourse, a better understanding of students' awareness and perceptions of social norms and conventions, as well as their own needs, feelings and behaviours regarding sexuality could be obtained. Qualitative research method was used in this study, in which twenty-eight college students in three local universities were interviewed and five underground student newspapers were collected. This study shows that: (1) There were cultural norms and conventions which defined sex in moral terms. (2) Students' sexual discourse revealed both conformers -- who complied with the cultural norms; and resistors -- who resisted the cultural norms. Among the resistors, there were different levels of resistance, from violent confrontation to cultural norms to merely talking about sex. (3) Although there were different responses to the cultural sex norms, informants were responding to the same sex culture -- the asexual culture. In short, in response to the established asexual student culture, informants constructed their own moral identity by either complaince with or resistance to that culture, which generates different forms of sexual discourse among Hong Kong college students.