Sex education in India
September 15, 2008
India being a conservative country stresses more on its cultural and religious values than on what’s actually needed. With a population this large and most of them living in rural areas, sex education is very important. Campaigns and other promotions of hazards of unprotected sexual acts aren’t enough. Most parents don’t let their young adult children even watch the advertisement. Conservativeness is proving to be disastrous rather than protective. Instead of talking about it with their children, parents choose to keep their kids ignorant of it. What happens then is that the kids learn the whole thing anyway but in bits and pieces and from the wrong source. Wrong information is worse than no information. The young adults tend to be more prone to catching diseases like AIDS. They should be warned against it and also should be totally filled in on the matter.
The sex education manuals that were supposed to be taught in schools all over India were rejected by 11 states claiming that it was inappropriate. So the manuals were reprinted and they now have no pictures and not even the mention of the words “sexual intercourse”. This is a major setback in mission of making India more aware. The story of birds and bees has proved very ineffective till now and only the Lord knows how the social moralists plan on making it effective in the coming years. What India needs is a proper sex education class in each school. As they say prevention is better than cure, we should try to prevent the evil and not the prevention itself. Inhibitions should be abandoned and we should only do what’s best for the future.
The bula di adds in West Bengal have stirred a great many jokes in all age groups. However, jokingly or in any other mood, they are talking about it and if they are talking about it they are sure to remember it. So I would say that it is a successful campaign. But what about the rural areas where half the people are even reluctant to attend schools? People hold campaigns there too but only the adults attend them and that too scarcely. There too, the young adults are vastly ignorant. We should think of all the possible ways that can make all the people a little more aware. After all it is all for the welfare of our country. If India is to be called a developing country, should we not do our best to give it a thrust towards development?
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