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RE: SEX EDUCATION??? by Ogunleye Dele Victor
You are quoting pages from "abstinence-based" sex education manuals. This type of sex-ed has never been proven to decrease sexual activity, unplanned pregnancy or STDs in any population.
I absolutely think my children need to know what genitals look like, what is normal, what is sexual intercourse. I think the book, It's perfectly normal is well written and a great resource. Have you read it? Or have you just taken a page from somewhere and decided it's terrible?
I think you will find that the young people who have the most information are the ones with the best outcomes.
@beriberi thanks a bunch for your opinion; but if information has heightened the rate of moral decadence in our society, don't you think it is best we censored the kind of information children are privy to at an early age? The rate of child-crime and their number in juvenile homes isn't reducing at all, is it; and most of the cause is from education? Many years ago, rape was not as popular as it is today. Sexual immorality was not this high, keen pregnancy, abortion and abortion laws? Well...
I have seen videos of the content of COMPREHENSIVE SEXUALITY EDUCATION (CSE) which is been introduced into schools and in Nigeria a petition is going around for it to be scrapped. Now, knowledge is power and the use of power his determined by the person who is empowered. Teaching kids about their genitals to me isn't wrong, I have seen parents teach children this things and even name vagina 'peepee', teaching them personal hygiene also; BUT teaching children about masturbation, kissing at least age 9 to me is disturbing. I was taught about the reproductive system in the Senior Secondary Class NOT about intercourse. I have seen the outcome of this knowledge, the rate of pregnancy and immorality about the kids. If we get children into Parenthood at an early stage in life, what will they get to do in future? I have seen many agreements for and against it and sometimes the arguments put for overweights that of against.
Now, few years ago 'we' felt it was normal teaching our children about protection and weapons. We encouraged it with the video games we gave them and the movies they saw. Fast-forward to this age and they are the threat to lives including theirs in most countries. Now my question is this 'if children are equipped with the information of sexual intercourse at the age of 9-11age group, what will be said or be of majority when they get to the ages of 17-20?'
Knowledge is power, but the extent of its use is determined by the one empowered. I think there are proper things we can teach our children under sex education as the age of maturity allows but going all the way is lethal.
You are right. We most times overlook these things