Abstract
The sexual behaviors of the first year university students in Shanghai and Hong Kong in 1991 were surveyed and compared. It was found that the Hong Kong subjects were less sexually active than Shaghai students in general and if they had sexual intercourse, they were more conscientious in using contraception. Assuming that Hong Kong is more modernized and Westernized than Shanghai, our findings do not support the view that modernization and Westernization is conducive to sexual disinhibition and promiscuity in the Chinese youths. The more important influential factors appeared to be religious belief and sex education.