SEX(EDUCATION)
Coitus. Sambhog. Intercourse. Lovemaking. Two flowers dancing together on the screen. Or, just sex. I can literally hear people go ‘hawww’ in my ears while I am typing this. Or my relatives, parents and just about anybody, lecturing me how to/when to/when not to use the ‘S’ word and I am guessing the ‘when not to’ part checks the ‘always’ box. Its funny how our country is ironic about sex. We don’t want to hear/talk about it and yet our country tops in the population category. I am not a sex addict, and its not like I am promoting sex to my readers because I like it. I am writing about this because I have always thought about how society has considered sex a taboo. I heard about this incident recently where an underage pregnant girl attended the SSLC examinations, which was the cherry on top for writing about sex and other things and justifying myself.
Now, I have a trick question for you. Well, sex is a taboo. So, what do you think about sex education in this country? Inadequate? I thought so. One of the first things that come to my mind when I say ‘sex’ is sex education. It is more prevalent than a four-leaf clover. I remember my school days when girls and boys were made to sit in two different rooms/halls when sex ed talks/workshops took place. I never understood why the seating system was like that but I am grateful that my school provided me with the right education. There are some schools where teachers skip that lesson/unit and ask their students to cover it up during the ‘self-study’ session. There are some other schools where no proper sex education is provided. All of this leads to hyper curious children looking for answers in all the wrong places.
There is another thing that I’ve noticed: Parents. I am not speaking for everybody and I agree that this might not be happening in every house but if you see, the sex ed talk or the “we need to talk” is always happening between mother-daughter and father-son. The roles are never reversed, because apparently it might get awkward(an oops or a sips-tea situation) and while we can afford our children to have less knowledge about sex but awkwardness? No no, we just can’t afford that. Right? There’s a saying which goes “easier said than done” and maybe it is true. Maybe it is easier said than done, but don’t you see? Not everything comes easy. Things get hard, and sometimes you just need to choose your hard.
According to me, an ideal ‘sex education handbook’ involves things like consent, appropriate/ inappropriate touches, unsolicited advances, respect of each others’ choices, alerts about rapes/ harassment, and everything about LGBTQA+ community. Because one of the reasons of rapes/ harassment(irrespective of the victim’s sex) or child marriages and underage pregnancies could be the lack of sex education. I could be wrong, in math or facts or while observing these things, but it is what it is. I think, we need to brush up and take our ‘sex ed tutoring skills’ up a notch.
