Sexual Sciences and Morality

The kids who attended the assembly must have gone home confused with more questions instead of answers. The tiny mind and the questions going on in that mind! Why did the teacher give me this lesson? How do I relate it with the ‘A for Apple’ and ‘1 + 1 = 2’ which I am currently learning?

Am I supposed to do any homework on this lesson? Whom should I ask for further guidance in this regard? What should I ask my parents and how? Does my father also sleep with a man and if he does not the why not, because my teacher says so? Can I sleep with a man? Is it mandatory?

Instead if they would have left to themselves until an age that they are able enough to get this information and process it, would this not be more helpful?

But again there is a need to analyze why a need was felt to bring up this issue with the kids? It might be that one of the kid had asked a particular question from one of the teachers and then after ‘an intense brainstorming session’ it was decided that we should go along this course of action.

Or it might be that the government policy makers in their relevant departments ‘brainstormed’ that kids should be ready to accept gay relationships and this is the best time to feed them with this information.

It can also be that kids had asked their parents about these relationships and after getting a feedback from the parents, such an assembly was designed for.

In all the cases where the potential initiators were the kids, it is alarming what they are learning from us, from the parents, the society and the media. Openness to sexuality and everyone desperate to go ahead with it publicly does not help the kids.

They become even more charged and skewed towards having sexual relationships at the earliest ages and then there will be race towards the Guinness book of records and the ‘hall of fame’ because media will pick one odd story to sell its papers and then everyone will read it and realize it is a quick way to make money.

The young are not allowed to watch movies because of the 12, 15 or 18 ratings. And we all know that this rating system has been developed to prevent information disseminating into the wrong age bracket which their minds are not capable or mature enough to process.

So a 4 year old is not allowed to watch a 15 rated movie because it has strong language and scenes of sexual or violent nature, or both. Ratings are also allotted on the basis of issues like the political ones and those involving complexities of relationships including homo or heterosexual ones.

But the same kid can see everything going on right in front of his or her eyes live. In home via the parents and the elder bothers and sisters and on the streets via the society and in the schools via the policy makers. Is it not time that we classify our actions comparable to the ones of the rated movies so that children not capable enough to understand information are prevented from interpreting it wrongfully?