SEX EDUCATION…….
November 20, 2006 by pankajsaini
Let’s talk about sex, say school kids.
You no longer need to camouflage sex with oblique reference to ‘birds and bees’. When it comes to sexuality, children, even those in villages, are getting smarter and safer.
20% boys, 10% girls approve of pre-marital sex
20% adolescents said they would agree to a sexual relationship if insisted by a friend. This included 24.4% boys and 15.7% girls.
88% boys and 70% girls know condoms can prevent HIV transmission.
75% to 86% know how HIV is transmitted.
88% feel sex education is needed.
The above information owes courtesy to a survey conducted by The Times News Group.
SEX ::: NO CHILD’S PLAY
This is what, is the view of our parents. Indeed it’s not a child’s play. But then again it’s not even an adult’s game. This is all about understanding and maturity, and none of these has anything to do with age.
In today’s scenario, yeah we are talking about India only, sex education is being considered with open mindedness and healthy intentions. There has been a lot of awareness among the masses about AIDS and HIV of late. This has been possible only because of the sex education.
Most of the parents still think, not just think but they believe it ardently, that children (adolescents) should be secluded from this sex thingy. Parents want their wards to be healthy and free from the ill effects of the so-called slang AIDS, HIV in their tender age. But in their pursuit, many a times they forget that by not discussing at length, these topics of utmost importance, they are doing no good. A person preaching sex education frankly, how healthily he may be doing his job, is looked upon with evil eyes in our society.
We are having so many extra co-curricular activities in our schools and colleges, may be cultural or sports. When we take Human values courses and when we take JV sessions at stretch, why can’t we take Sex Education sessions? It’s as worth discussing as any other moral value. Here, I’ll say the hesitation lies not with the students, but with the governing bodies. They themselves feel shy or may be they consider it to be as a phenomenon of breeding corrupt and malicious boys and girls instead of the enlightened students who would have tonnes of JV and human values session, who knows.
P.S. :: This stuff calls for serious heed by our generation. And if the governing bodies feel offended, they have to accept the offence.
phoduuu
real call ha!!!!!!
chal awareness tu hi la de toh acha hai…….
impresses by d statistics u showed,
but yaar….ek JV badi mushkil se tolerate kiya,aur tu session bulwana chahta hai,wo bhi sex-education par…..baat hajam nahin hui!!!
yeah, its quite true. it’s high time educational institutions include SE as a curicula vitae. Diseases like AIDS can only b prevented on doin so.
However the stats overwhelmingly refer to India’s urban population, more so the hip metros.
Amazing stuff our children are learning about sex. I just wonder if they have all figured out that God created man for woman and woman for man, and not woman for woman or man for man in that bed of love yet.
Aids…., dear children, not only can but does kill. See to it that you are not one of the ones who are closing your eyes to what you know God wants and the way He meant for things to be in life. That includes your “closed doors”.
Not only should you think “Safety first in all things, but “Smart” with Common Sense, too”
Age doesn’t have anything to do with sex, I’ve read here. Oh
…….Yes, it really does. For how can you understand the world of understanding that lies ahead of you yet still, when you are so very young, and have not yet experienced things enough in life, love or sex, to understand just what it is you really and truly are doing in that bedroom, let alone the way things really should be, versus the horrid things you allow yourselves to put your body through. It is not yours to do that to in the first place. It is the Body that God Himself gave to you to take care of and respect while you are here on Earth.
Just food for thought chillun of all ages……
However, while it is true, that Sex education should be taught so our chldren aren’t at such the loss when it’s their turn in life to take hold of that precious part of life, it worries me that “who is going to teach them, because it needs to be taught the right stuff. And so many people even the so called mature adults out there, don’t even have the respect for sex and sex versus gender and the way God meant things to be themselves. That dear friends is a very depressing thing for anyone to have to think about. So….on that note, who, if there is anyone, brave enough to start stepping up to the plate and do the right thing?
Well rightly said friend…ever since i have known about this. I never could understand why arent these things taught formally coz it is very imp and many young guys/gals can be saved from such diseases if they have proper knowledge but i guess the system is too shy…i dont think the young ppl are shy but they are stopped from discussing any such things
Sex education is an absolute must, and such things can be put across in a very practical and straightforward way. Why route such things through God? Who knows how God meant things to be? It’s better to decide what’s good for us, and how things are meant to be for us. And to develop that ability to judge rightly, is sex education.