Celibacy: freedom or hassle?
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More than 20% of French people live single according to the INED Epic survey © istock
By: Emmanuelle Bastide
50 mins
From the old maid to the hardened bachelor, the images associated with celibacy are not always positive.
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In our societies, life together is still synonymous with happiness and celibacy often perceived as an undesirable state, an intermediate stage, necessarily temporary.
However, more than 20% of French people live single according to the INED Epic survey.
Who are they today?
Do women and men experience celibacy the same way?
Voluntary choice or suffered situation?
What about China, this country where singles have their party?
Program in partnership with
The Conversation
news site
With:
Cléa Chakraverty
, journalist for the news site
The Conversation
Isabelle Attane
, research director, demographer and sinologist at the
National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED)
, specialist in the demography of China
Marie Bergström
, researcher in sociology of couples and sexuality,
National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED)
For further
►
Living single today, far from preconceived ideas
- article by Marie Bergström and Géraldine Vivier on the website of The Conversation
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Graphically yours: Male celibacy, a new challenge for China -
article by Isabelle Attané on the website of The Conversation
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