Taiwanese youth regularly encountered sex and reproduction in general education for the first time when the Nationalist government moved to Taiwan in 1945. Before the government took over the printing of textbooks and distributed its standard versions in 1968, different commercial companies invited scholars and specialists to write a variety of textbooks for physiology and hygiene courses, based on the curriculum guidelines issued by the Ministry of Education. These textbooks all included a chapter on the reproductive system and, with a few images, introduced to Taiwanese teenagers the development, functions, and protection of the sex organs. Unlike publications from the early twentieth century, these textbooks lost personal characteristics of the authors and were dominated by a discourse emphasizing the reproductive female body. Both the colonial fascination with perversion and Republican anxiety over masturbation gave way to menstruation, conception, and delivery, and a woman's life was presented as passing from puberty to menopause, with a focus on gestation. Under the state policy to combat Communism and highly competitive examinations to enter high schools, earlier attention paid to sexuality of youth was in the postwar era replaced by the teaching of anatomical knowledge of reproduction.