The sexual revolution sweeps across China -- This article seems unremarkable at first -- it's another one of those "values are changing" stories that could be written about almost any country. But once you get several paragraphs into the story, the sheer magnitude of the changes in China becomes apparent. Fifteen years ago, only 16% of Beijing residents had premarital sex. Today the figure is 70%! In only five years, the fraction of abortions which are performed on unmarried women has increased from one-fourth to two-thirds. I suspect this data has a strong urban bias, especially if the author's implication that the Internet is responsible for the change is correct. Even so, this must be a profoundly distressing development to middle-aged and older Chinese, as the younger generation discards the moral standards that guided eralier generations when they were young.