Note: This
post is not fit for those below the age of 18 since it contains explicit
material which they should not be exposed to because they are Indians and
Indian children should not be corrupted by the western culture that youngsters
like me have fallen into. They should not be dirtied in the mire of sex; Boys
till the age of 28 when they are ready to be married off to a girl aged between
18-21 without knowing how to react to their natural urges or menstruation or
safe sex or family planning.
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Having given the above warning I now feel morally right to write about this taboo subject without any of those moral policemen coming up and beating me up to a pulp or parading me naked in the street or hanging me up in a tree or something. Well, you never know…
So it seems
like some people who care entirely too much about the morality of Indian people
are against sex education being introduced to children in school because they
believe that it will have an adverse effect on the gentle and yet untouched
minds of the younger generation. Mind you, a generation which thinks nothing of
committing rape before the age of eighteen in a running bus, in the capital of
the country. These people feel that sex education will tilt their children’s
minds in the direction of that horrible and degrading
act-which-must-not-be-named. Well, I don’t suppose they know how much porn
their innocent children have stored in their hard drives and how much
experimentation goes on, more often than not with disastrous consequences.
Forgive them Lord, for they are the innocent ones, not their children!
It is
curious indeed how hard it is for people to understand the importance of sex
education. My generation did not have sex education and neither did any generation
before me, except that which some smart parents imparted to their children. Now
if we didn't have sex education and still we turned out to be alright, why do
we need it now?
We turned
out alright, did we? Then how does this generation and those before manage to
rape women, spread sexual diseases, get frightened by menstruation, treat women
in periods like untouchables, have a football team full of children,
discriminate against homosexuals, repress their urges, hurt their partners
during intercourse, randomly define unnatural sex, abhor transgender people,
confuse their sexual orientation and don’t have a bloody clue about sex change
procedures?
There must
be a reason right? Yes, it is called lack of information on sex and gender and
the role they play in forming society.
India has
evolved from an apparently hedonistic society as one can make out from old
temples and manuscripts into an ultra-conservationist and Puritanical society
like England was in the time of the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. The
difference is that the change in England came with the change in power while in
India it happened over time with the influence of religion and imposed
self-righteous morality.
In the
course of this transition in India, it has become taboo to talk about sex and
its affiliates to even one’s parents because everyone becomes very
uncomfortable around these subjects. This problem especially seems to exist
between father and son because a mother and daughter do talk about such things
since they need to learn about their bodies, or so I've heard. Television
channels are changed at the show of some skin and radio stations are changed as
soon as a song with apparently explicit lyrics is played. If such is the
situation, it is nigh impossible for children to learn what they need to except
from those ‘non-existent’ sex education classes.
Modern
educationists and leaders need to open their eyes to the need of the day and
recognize the value of sex education to children who are today getting exposed
to the same at a very young age owing to various factors I don’t need to
expound upon. Nobody is innocent in this age of information (unless they live
in China or North Korea). It is extremely necessary that children learn about
their bodies, their urges and the problems that accompany the wrong use of the
wrong things at the wrong age.
It will be
a good day indeed when sex education is introduced throughout India.
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