My belief on Sex Education especially relating to cultures like India, is that if kids don't get information from the right sources, they will get it from the wrong. Today in the age where anal sex can be googled, most orgasmic sex positions can be youtubed and porn of any kind downloaded easily through Limewire, is it really SMART to not tell kids the facts about sex, pregnancy, parenting, rape etc?
How can girls protect themselves when they don't know if it's okay for a boy to touch her? How can a girl practice safe sex when she doesn't know how a condom works? I respect our culture, our norms and our traditions. Theres a history and purpose behind letting ashes of our dead float in the ganges and throwing color on people and women dancing in a synchronized group in alot of hindi movies, or so i'm lead to believe.
But it's high time we question what has been going on for so long in our country, high time we question if we are exposing ourselves and our children to become victims of sexual predators, victims of various sexually trasmitted diseases or young scared pregnant girls who think the only answer is suicide.
Take off the damn veil for heavens sake, stop pretending sex is oh so bad, not when we are the second populous country in the world, not when we take pride in the invention of the Kama Sutra. I want to be able to explain to my children about love and sex and the joy of having a family. I do NOT want to have to silence my child when he/she asks me about a condom advert we see on TV.
Do we actually believe that ignorance of sex will lead to it not happening? How delusional are we? No, kids today know very early about alot of things that we were scared to ask about as teenagers and STILL can't discuss with our parents. So why can we not have sex education in schools? Why can't we teach our future generation of leaders about the right way to do it and leave them with an education choice?
We are such a bunch of hypocrites...I can't decide if i should laugh or cry...
Read about it here : http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1249050
And tell me what you think.
