Deeply analyzes the important enlightenment of postmodernism on the sexual health education of college students. The article first points out that although sexual health is an indispensable part of education, the sexual health education of college students in China still faces many challenges, including backward concept, single content and outdated teaching methods. Postmodernism provides a new perspective for sexual health education with its characteristics of deconstructing rationality, opposing tradition and multi-value orientation. The article emphasizes that sexual health education should go beyond simply imparting physiological knowledge, and integrate psychological, ethical, social and cultural contents, so as to realize the organic combination of science and humanity. At the same time, the content of education should be diversified, covering sexual physiology, sexual psychology, sexual culture, sexual aesthetic and sexual law, so as to meet the needs of different students. Teaching methods should also be more open and interactive, encouraging students to actively engage and think. Through these reforms, sexual health education will more effectively promote college students to form a comprehensive and healthy concept of sex, laying the foundation for their lifelong happiness.

Zejun Chen. The enlightenment of postmodernism on sexual health education of college students. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2024) Vol. 7, Issue 7: 35-39. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2024.070706.

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