Of course, nobody doubts the intention pf school authorities and social workers in engaging pupils at their own level.
But pamphlets with graphic details about gonorrhea, hot tips on how to use a condom and a strip cartoon may be bordering on smut rather than sex education.
Mind you, they also offer advice on where to get free contraceptives and HIV tests as well as treatment without their parents’ knowledge, how to get the morning-after pills and where to go for an abortion.
The sheer openness of these so-called sex lessons may give the impression that it’s perfectly normal to sleep around, catch VD and get pregnant.
Now, it’s not a question of being old fashioned. But if sex lessons must be given, they should be taught in serious, respectable medical terms, not in porn-like language.
No doubt, the schools’ idea of handing out free condoms to pupils may be one way of teaching them to avoid unwanted pregnancies.
Yet, at the same time, it can indirectly encourage the curious to try out sex, which can lead them to unprotected sexual activities.
And that’s exactly what everyone – parents, teachers and social workers – all want to avoid, the subtle push towards a promiscuous society. At the end of the day, the emphasis should still be on good old moral values and the need to respect every individual’s rights, not treat them as sex objects.
But pamphlets with graphic details about gonorrhea, hot tips on how to use a condom and a strip cartoon may be bordering on smut rather than sex education.
Mind you, they also offer advice on where to get free contraceptives and HIV tests as well as treatment without their parents’ knowledge, how to get the morning-after pills and where to go for an abortion.
The sheer openness of these so-called sex lessons may give the impression that it’s perfectly normal to sleep around, catch VD and get pregnant.
Now, it’s not a question of being old fashioned. But if sex lessons must be given, they should be taught in serious, respectable medical terms, not in porn-like language.
No doubt, the schools’ idea of handing out free condoms to pupils may be one way of teaching them to avoid unwanted pregnancies.
Yet, at the same time, it can indirectly encourage the curious to try out sex, which can lead them to unprotected sexual activities.
And that’s exactly what everyone – parents, teachers and social workers – all want to avoid, the subtle push towards a promiscuous society. At the end of the day, the emphasis should still be on good old moral values and the need to respect every individual’s rights, not treat them as sex objects.
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