Sexual Education

Sex. When most youth hear or see such a word they either laugh, get embarrassed or have many questions about the topic. This is the case because adolescence today are not educated enough about sex education. There are many places where sex education is actually banned and parents forbid teachers to give any information about sex to their students. There is actually places where it is made illegal for teachers to talk about sex in classrooms.

Why is that? Why don’t parents want their students to be educated about such an important and misunderstood concept. There are many young kids that have little to no information on the subject. It is so important for youth to learn about sexual behaviour starting at a young age, so that as they grow and mature they take that information along with them. It also does not leave them with unanswered embarrassing questions they may worry about. When students don’t have information about sexual behaviour it can create anxiety and fear that there might be something wrong with them when they have certain urges. Places make it seem like sexual behaviour is wrong and unhealthy which leads the kids believe their is something wrong with them. If everyone is aware and informed that those urges and changes within them are normal, then this would lead to a lot more confident youth. Young youth should have the right to know all the information about their bodies. It is their body and life. They should be provided with the essential information to help them  grow with confidence. Having this information will also allow for the kids to understand that they are not alone and that everyone else is dealing with the same issues with their body that they are. 

I believe that sex education should start at a young age and keep progressing with more information as they get older. Every parent wants their child to learn all the important life lessons in schools so that should definitely include learning about sexual behaviour. It shouldn’t just stop there either. Most parents or schools make sex out to be a horrible and forbidden thing, and only teach the functional aspects of your body. There is little to no information about how it can be pleasurable. It is a touchy debate over whether or not that should be taught, but if the youth are taught correctly about safe sex, I do not think that it would be such a bad idea to involve some positive aspects on the subject.