Sexual Education Should Be Made
Mandatory In School
Written by: Yashika BirlaEdited by: Ritika Rana
Ignorance does no good, In India, Sex Education stops the moment when the teacher skips " The Reproductive System" chapter in class 10th. It's important to teach about sex in schools to avoid rapes in future. Sex education should be made compulsory since junior classes, for a more aware and sensitive generation. There's nothing wrong in
teaching kids about sex, it is the source of life itself, children and adolescents need to learn about sex to protect them for society, peers and media. In this modern era in which rates of pregnancy among teenagers
and sexually transmitted diseases are increasing on an alarming rate there's need
to teach children more about sex education rather than a one-time chat about
the birds and the bees.
Many parents and teachers often hesitate about the broaching the topic of sex with their children and students. Some parents are
even aware of the fact that how important it is to give their children
education about sex yet they stay silent and assume that their children will adopt
the essential knowledge from school and the media. Some teachers and parents believe that telling children about sex will encourage sexual experimentation.
But what the society needs to understand is, that
as sex education is the study of the characteristics of being a male and
female. Such characteristics make up a person's sexuality. Sexuality is an
essential aspect of the life of a human being and it is very important for
every child to know about it. It teaches an individual about self-acceptance
and skills of interpersonal relationship. It also helps an individual to
cultivate a sense of responsibility towards others as well as oneself.
We make many units of maths compulsory, question
yourself one thing? When was the last time you used algebra or trigonometry?
Although if you're an engineer or scientist then it comes to use regularly
otherwise it rarely comes to use after
class 12th, But! it does come to use.
Imagine if you didn't get knowledge about the same in your school? No matter
how terrible trigonometry was, yet it's important. Even though you don't use it every day but it's still useful at times. Same is the case with sex education.
Even if you don't want to be sexually active, that doesn't mean that you don't
need to learn about sex and contraceptives. Access to medically accurate sex
education is a human right. And no child should be prohibited from getting get
sex education because their parents think it's inappropriate.
Although, there are end number of reasons to, why sex
education should be taught in school yet out of all the most important being
that a large section of teens are sexually active. According to the Youth Risk
Behavioural Surveillance Survey, 41% of high school students had had sex at
least once. Not only this but also 11.5% of teens had four or more sexual
partners, 57% of sexually active students had used condoms and 18% had used
birth control pills.
These problems associated with youngsters can
only be solved if the education system and parents believe that sex education
doesn't encourage kids to have sex. Rather comprehensive programs teach
students that abstinence is the only surefire way to prevent pregnancy and
Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
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