Do you think that its high-time that sex education should be taken seriously in schools in India?

With India being one of the signatories to the 1994 UN's ICPD, it is obliged to provide sex education to adolescence. But, do you think that this is taken seriously? India still has a high rate of teenage pregnancy, HIV/AIDS infection, and the highest rate of child and sexual abuse.

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asrita singh
answered 22 Jul 2020

Sex is a taboo topic in India is no breaking news. It is evident by how we handle the subject from a young age or the time we first find out about it. But in the day and age of the Internet, social media, and unlimited access to information, how do we know for sure that children are getting the right information about everything, including sex and sexuality? 

According to me, it is a hight- time to start sex education in senior high school because in this era of internet and lots of infomation available for free, studernts are getting wrong information about sex from various sources. As there are not guided on this topic there belive whatever they read or go through. But it is very important to guide them in their growing age. So in India we need to take sex education far more seriously and work on developing a comprehensive sex-ed curriculum that works for India. It would also be imperative that all stakeholders – children, parents, and teachers – be involved in creating and designing this curriculum.

Andrea Mathew
answered 25 May 2020

Sex education should be taken seriously at schools in India because without any proper guidance regarding respect and consent and what is appropriate or not, there are high number of cases among students themselves related to sexual abuse or harassment. It's high time that sex education should be made compulsory, serious and normal and also for everyone.

Irene Maria Mathew
answered 25 May 2020

With the technology booming in the country , nowadays kids studying in 5th standard also have phones with all facilities for various purposes. With this kind of technology access comes some pros and cons... 

Kids have unlimited access to data or multimedia that are not meant to be for them and this infact makes them curious to know more and the current generation is all about know it all. So according to me... Kids should be given maximum awareness about things like sex in school itself as that's the place they spend most of their time. This will make them understand better the way to use the technology and the bad things that happen if we tamper with them. 

Himanshi Arora
answered 20 May 2020

Yes, sex education should be taken seriously in Schools in India. Today, people still think its a taboo and feel shy to talk in public or with their parents. But we need to understand  that it is not a harmful or shameful thing to talk in public. It's a basic thing in our life that all of us have to go through. It's also important for parents to talk with their children about sex because only then they will understand its importance and how much they need to be careful in their teen times. unawareness about sex is misleading our today's generation and they are getting wrong and misleading information about it from internet or from their friends.

Jitin Baby
answered 17 May 2020

Yes, it's high time that sex education should be taught in schools.

The teaching of sex education in school can be considered as a positive step in ensuring that the young adults get necessary moral tools which will enable them survive in an environment heavily corrupted by media advertisements and obscene content.

Nishita Abraham
answered 16 May 2020

Yes, sex education should be taught in schools only when a child reaches higher classes and attains some sense to grasp things.  Majority of the parents in India are not open to their children about such topics hence their is a rising need for sex education to be imparted in school.  These days due to unlimited exposure to social media and internet, children have easy access to anything and everything.Hence, due to the curiousity to know about sex related issues, they are misled into wrong places. So if we remove the root couse of unawareness by providing sex education then it will prove beneficial to students to develop a healthy state of mind.
The number of sex-related crimes is increasing in India and it's sad to notice that the culprits are underage. It is really devastating to notice the future of our country being misled and not knowing how to respect each individual. It is important to know how to preserve good interpersonal relationships with the opposite gender by interacting with both sexes in respectful and appropriate ways. Sex education will give them a healthy perspective about other gender and make them grow into well informed adults.

Meera
answered 16 May 2020

Yes, I do believe that including sex-ed to student's academics is beneficial. I feel that as the current generation gets exposed more to sex/sexuality-related content via a variety of media outlets, having a forum that openly discusses the topic of sexuality will help the kids to understand themselves and the opposite sex and other genders better.

Lijet Jose
answered 16 May 2020

Yes, this topic is very sensitive as well as most important in the growing period of a student. We recently heard about the issues raised on social media and how they treated and reacted to pictures of opposite gender. This is not all, there number of news from all around the world. It's better start treating this, from school itself because school is an open platform to learn and grow along with each other be it a girl or a boy.

Rosemary Joseph
answered 16 May 2020

Yes sex education should be taken seriously in schools.  Sex education is most important need of modern era. It is believed that sex is something dirty and should never be talked about it whereas the fact is sex is a natural phenomenon. A proper sex education will nurture good values and help to tackle issues related to it. 

shikha purohit
answered 16 May 2020

we need to take sex education far more seriously and work on developing a comprehensive sex-ed curriculum that works for India. It would also be imperative that all stakeholders – children, parents, and teachers – be involved in creating and designing this curriculum.

The emphasis should be on developing healthy sexual attitudes among young adults and children, giving them and their parents access to the right kind of information that empowers them to make right and informed decisions. Without access to information, young people in schools will turn to friends, magazines, the Internet, and porn, which could lead to a confused understanding of sex. When we start normalising conversations around sexual health and education, connecting it to respect, consent, safety, and love, we are working with a chance that this generation will make far healthier choices when it comes to sex and sexuality.

STELLA GEORGE
answered 16 May 2020

Sexuality education, as a part of health education, is vital for young people’s development, learning, and overall well-being. Learning in this area also contributes to academic success and positive mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health.

Tanisha Agarwal
answered 14 May 2020

Yes, I totally consider this topic necessary for children studying in school because it is the first and foremost place that helps a child grow and they get due to hidden facts and knowledge about Sex education tend to search and gossip around internet and other mediums. Teenager mind is very curious and growing both at same time  it will help in providing them a realistic and required knowledge about the topic so as to refrain them from gossiping and finding it absurd to talk about it o others

praisy abraham
answered 14 May 2020

Yes, sex education should be added to the curriculum of schools in India. It has been a must in today's generation where people have only half knowledge of important things like sex and related things. Lack of knowledge about sex causes increase in rape cases, loss of virginity at a very young age and STDs (Sexually Transmitted Disease). People fail to understand the pros and cons of this. 

Therefore, sex education, taught in the right manner, is a must in today's school

hitu chaudhary
answered 14 May 2020

Yes, and after all these scenarios coming to existance regarding boys locker room and similar cases happening nowadays. Sex Education is a must. 

Aathira Gopi
answered 14 May 2020

Yes, it is indeed high-time that we need sex education in India. For a lot of teenagers, the only source of sex 'education' (if at all) is pornography, and that leads to an unreal imagery about the idea of sex, pleasure, intimacy and even consent. Consent, being a very important topic to be brought onto the table, its only possible with adequate curriculam on sex education. In the absence of sex education, and pornography setting the ideal kind of sex life for teenagers, we are inevitably increasing the rate of child abuse, domestic violence and sexual violence. Especially in a country like India, where patriarchal religions, customs, and norms lead the way for most of the familial structures and even the political consciousness of people, sex education has to be in place to destigmatise "sex" and actually spread awareness about a healthy and consensual sex life, in the second most populated country, of the world. 

kranthi kiran
answered 13 May 2020

 I personally believe, in India, sex education need to be encouraged in schools but only if, the course is structurly designed well. In this digital world, technology made the young generations to be broad minded, compared with earlier generations. Here, India is a country that follows tradition's, culture's, and norm's. If the course curriculum is not designed and fuctioned well, the older generations might feel current education cirriculum is spoiling young minds, and  can raise a serious issue in stopping it.

ALBIN THOMAS
answered 12 May 2020

Yes , all the teenager student need and adult need a sex education , and it all start from the home , I think it is a responsibility of a parent as well as a teacher 

Neha Abraham
answered 12 May 2020

Yes, sex education should be taken seriously in schools as well as at homes. With the rise in atrocities against both men and women, it is important to start early as the foundation is laid in schools. It is important to sensitive kids about respecting the opposite gender and how to treat others, as well as to raise voice against any inhumane treatment.

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