Why Sex Education Among Kids is Important

Many of you think that your kids would go the wrong way if they are educated about sex. But ignorance about sex is far more dangerous than sex guidance. After all, someone has to take up the challenge.

You may adopt the following methods to educate a child about sex when his/her physical changes start surfacing.

1. The parents can guide the child as to how changes in body take place - function of each sex organ and the risks involved in playing mischief with the organs. The teachers, at school, can, during the course of studies, well upon the subject in a better way to unravel the so called mysteries and secrets of sex.

2. Let physiology be a compulsory subject in the school syllabus, so that more light is thrown upon the subject.

3. In the absence of sex-education at school or home, let there be display of audio cassettes which should be followed by video cassettes. Whatever the student has heard and, at a latter stage, when video cassettes are played, he would be able to correlate the audio and video versions. At this stage, the teacher should step in and reply to queries of his students and if all the inquisitive queries have been aptly replied to, the students will gain a lot.

4. A question answer session will solve most of the problems, relating to sex education.

5. Functions of sex organs should be explained fully. Here also audio video cassettes can easily achieve the desired result.

Modern youth, these days, have knowledge of what they ought not to know or practice but, they remain gained through porno, periodicals and magazines, serves to ignite their sexual passions and fantasies and to do practically whatever is revealed through the sex postures, depicted in such magazines, x-rated videos, movies etc. This is not a healthy way to sex education. It is simple a means to free sex where passion rides high, and all other sane and safety measures are neglected.

Young children stealthily read porno, literature which vitiates the mild and forces them to premature sex. Had such misguided youth been properly educate about sex, their craving and intensity to indulge in premarital sex would never have arisen. In young age one should acquire proper sex knowledge.

Whichever methods are adopted, to educate the youth on sex knowledge, emphasis should always be laid on educative and explicit process. We have to forewarn the youth about hazards and diseases involved in sexual activity keeping an eye on persuasive approach.