Sex Education in The Schools

Youth receiving father’s advices in choosing his lover

Sex education is not to teach eroticism and not for involving children in sexual activities. It should be aimed at teaching the children how to take care of their individual private parts and how to escape the curse of teenage pregnancy and how to remain sexually healthy keeping different sex-related formidable diseases including the most fatal AIDS.

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We must not forget that sex is comparable to fire and for that reason combustion cannot be totally avoided. And the most important thing is our attitude towards sex. Sexual desire should not be viewed as any negative quality as it is in the basic nature of human beings. We may not comprehend chemical reactions with all permutations and combinations behind the sexual urge in our body. Nevertheless, it is not difficult to apprehend that history of sexuality and of changes in the sexual orientation point to its evolutionary characteristics. Thus sex is not simply release and exchange of energy. It is something more.

Hence sex education for the children in the schools demands pre-planned departure from conventional community standard of morality and of traditional religious values. In respect of sexual activities I have a personal question from my adolescence. I have not been answered why we have learned and forced to suppress sex and sexual desire. If I am true to myself I must admit that sexual activities have blessed me with the most wonderful experiences of immense joy involving my body and mind together. It is a kind of transcendental feelings which, it is said, a few sages of India can achieve in their life after much endeavor. Explanations in support of suppression of sex for the health of the individual and society are more or less known to all of us and they have never been above the line of debate. Why should our attitude to sex remain deceptive throughout the ages? We are forced to hide the very friendly thing which simply gives us pleasure.

Is it not better to open the windows once for all so that discourses on sex and sexual activities may be allowed anywhere and in presence and in participation of everyone? It is meaningless to fear that the teens may be involved in sexual activities before they are legally married. Many of them have already been in the process of tasting the forbidden fruit despite all kinds of taboos. You can never solve a problem without touching its roots.