Sex Education in India

We Indians have almost succeeded in whatever we have laid our hands on.... whether it be sports, techonolgy, literature, etc etc..... and call ourselves one of the most developing economies in the world, yet we haven't changed our attitude..... Some of us still continue the same ignorant, hypocritical attitude...

India is the mother of great relics like vedas, shastras.... It is here that Maharishi Vystana developed the sacred text of kamasutra.... but still today, people run away when someone talks about sex.... Sex is considered as a taboo in our society and the people who talk about it are considered as lechers, villains.... if not monsters.. People close their eyes, block their ears to avoid listening to anything related to those three letters.... S. E. X.

Then how can we call ourselves modern or stay in such a society when the idealogy is flawed... How can anything related to sex be bad, if India has given birth to the greatest text related to it... Yet we are ignorant of how the human body works.... Even though we gave birth to this sacred text, yet we are ignorant about it after thousands of years....

Sex education is supposed to be one of the primal education a child should receive alongwith his/her primary education.... It is fine and important to know what is 2+2 or where are Himalayas.... but equally important to know the funcationality of human body (both male and female) and how its different organs work.

Yet, introduction of sex education in schools and colleges is still a controversial topic and people prefer to keep a distance from it.

But in the process, we tend to ignore one fact that sex is one of the natural aspects of human life and there is no sin in educating people about it.
Even in modern day societies, people refrain from talking about sexual education to their kids... results being that children are always confused about this tricky concept.... and even after reaching teenage, they still don't know anything about it... They satisfy their anxiety from their friends who themselves might be knowing half-truths... this way, even at the age of 22-23 boys and girls have a lot of wrong notions about sex...

What's more, just imagining that a country with the 2nd highest population in the world, has citizens who are not fully aware about sexual education, makes one wonder. People fail to realise the importance that sexual education imparts in making their children well informed about their body parts and their functionality. If boys and girls are well aware, then they will use adequate preventive measures to avoid any unnecessary births and will be well informed as to how deadly diseases likes Aids spread......

In everyday news, we come to know a lot on how many people in India are suffering from this disease due to their promiscuous habits. Many people are still not aware of birth control techniques due to which, they tend to have very large families!! They are not fully aware of the safe sex methods and hence the diseases. I think its high time that we give it a thought and realise it. There should not be any fear or inhibition in learning it as knowledge is never a bad thing.... We need to realise that sex and sexual education are as much important and natural as thing else.... We can't stand to be called hypocrites or nerds as longer and need to understand that including sex education in our curriculum is very necessary to make a well informed youth of tomorrow, who is not misled by misconceptions...