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A 17-year-old high school student raped six girls within a three-month period in Guangxi. Four of the girls were younger than 14 years old. The boy confessed that he was "influenced by porn movies" he watched online. However, an expert in the region said the boy "might have suffered from psychological pressure and had no way to release his sexual desires, hence the consequences." The psychology professor said the boy's realization of the bad influence of porn movies proved that he was fully aware of right from wrong but "only because he could not control his physiological urges that he committed the crime." Therefore, the expert concluded: "The boy needs sex education." It is understandable that a psychologist would want to flaunt his knowledge of psychoanalysis. But attributing a crime of rape to "merely uncontrollable physiological desire" is sheer nonsense. According to the professor's logic, even if the boy has a righteous attitude toward porn influences, he will not be able to control his physiological impulses because of a lack of sex education and will unavoidably "take the path to crime". Such an outrageous crime of devastating little girls was thus played down as an instinctive physical desire. One could not refrain from asking: what kind of a trash theory is the "expert" selling? Delinquency has been a much talked about issue in recent years. There have been frequent reports of youths killing their parents because of rebellion against discipline, stabbing schoolmates in trivial disputes, committing robbery to obtain a few yuan for Internet cafe fees, and abducting and selling young girls for ransom. | 
