Sex Education

[Francis Kabadi]

Poll your views about including sex education in Indian school curriculum

[lucifer-in-disguise]

why should we poll our views, when you yourself have not posted any thing on this subject.....francis???

[Francis Kabadi]

You should not if you are below adult age!

[neeraj]

Hindi movies are good enough to have excellent sex education.

[frankly]

i think we (you) all, especially LID, francis, hiall, vivek etc. etc. derive a lot of sex education from this board... don\'t you..?

[Lucifer-in-disguise]

India\'s shyness towards sex fuelling AIDS






Patna, Oct 29

The government\'s coyness towards sex education among young people, who are becoming increasingly promiscuous, is fuelling the spread of AIDS, social activists say.

\"There is a large population of about 300 million young people in the age group of between 12 and 24 in India and recent studies show their growing preference for pre-marital sex,\" Rakesh Kumar, director of the non-governmental Center for Health and Development.

\"The government has no plans for the sexual health education for this group,\" Kumar, whose center is based in Patna, told AFP.

Nearly four million Indians carry HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, making it the largest HIV-positive population in the world after South Africa.

Unofficial estimates put the figure at closer to five million. Three-quarters of those infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus live in five states, with Tamil Nadu at the top followed by Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Manipur.

Various social groups suggest that in the next 100 years, India will have the highest number of AIDS cases in the world.

\"Led by a consumerist boom, the youth in India are actively indulging in sex. Their lack of education about safe sex norms expose them to the AIDS trap,\" Kumar said.

A recent survey of youth in Mumbai by the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Youth, concluded that 64 percent of youth aged 14 to 19 were no longer virgins, with 43 percent of them having visited prostitutes.

In another survey by The Week magazine of unmarried young Indians, 69 percent of men admitted to premarital sex compared to 38 percent of women.

Forty-five percent of Indians had premarital sex between ages 16 and 19, while 27 percent were 15 or under and 28 percent were 20 or older.

Activists said the government should target and educate young people to stem the rampant spread of disease as the country\'s rigid social customs, where men enjoy privileged status, hindered the use of condoms.

\"Young boys and girls in the age group of between 12 and 24 are most susceptible to unsafe sexual encounters and they should be made the target group of government AIDS awareness programs,\" said Aditi Puri, a social activist and AIDS worker.

\"This is, however, not a government priority. There is no consensus in India over introducing sex and reproductive health education in the school and college syllabus.\"

Government officials say they oppose introducing sex education in schools in a country considered by many to have puritanical attitudes toward sex.

\"Our society is not an open one. Inclusion of sex education in the syllabus can also have an adverse effect,\" said Ram Chandra Purbey, state primary education minister of Bihar.

A government official working on state-sponsored health programmes echoed the minister\'s views. \"At the government level, it seems the officials end their responsibilities by distributing the condoms free. Educating (the young) seems to be a big task,\" he said.

[laskar_sikandrabadi]

What it all reflects? That we have a hypocritical system, it is a nebulous cover for thinking that the puritanic observance of certain aspects of sex is beneficial to the youth! What a sham! This is the pseudo value system that is responsible for the state of affairs relating to the sex awareness among youth. If the youth knows what is good and what is bad about sex, then there is a lot of losses in the money game, like for hospitals, drug makers and may be even law enforcers to name a few. May be these are some of the true reasons for not implementing such schemes/courses in the educational system under the garb of puritanic values.