shantanu_webmaster said:
I think it would be humilating , frustrating and offcourse very difficult for teachers and Parents to handle that... even in india i dont think children need sex education... it should not be introduced here.. it will surely hurt our religious values and social community bondages.... its BAD DECISION...
Okay so lets hold the religious values and community as a good excuse for avoiding sex education. Now lets see reality, children above 14 - 15 actually know what is sex but they are curious about it and combined with the sex urge it can take to one of the situations. Let us take a few common situations ignoring AIDs issue -
Experimentation - All you need is two willing partners which is not very difficult these days. Wouldn't you rather have them aware of the consequences and options than let them engage is risky behavious driven by urge and curiosity? There is nothing foreign or 'western' about sex it is all biological and body clocked, may family was a very conservative one and I didn't watch much TV as our family was strict about it. But that didn't stop anything...so back to point.
Porn - Well there is no conclusive evidence of crime directly effected by porn but there is no denial, porn addicts have little respect for women - all women to them are sexual toys. And the way pornography and other sex media project, all women want is banging which can put you in soup or jail if you were to try it practically. A lot of men have the idea you can turn on women by making sexual remarks and its a sign of masculinity...so you have eve teasing and sexual harassment.
Peers - The children use peers and friends as a source of information on sex who are as reliable as joke sites. Their knowledge is half baked, based in media perceptions or porn which you know the consequences. It can also cause negative self image based in media prjection of body and fashion trends.
And besides lack of a reliable source of information can cause a lot of problems which could have been prevented in the first place with good sex-ed. Talking of teachers and parents, if they can't handle a basic thing as sex - I would question their skills. Maybe we need to shed the hipocrisy and get a more mature outlook.