Modern sex education is seen as a backbone for the development and growth on all fronts of human society. In this context, most countries in the world spend vast sums of money and many resources to ensure that their education systems are strengthened to take advantage of all resources given by God in man. No wonder that each country pays adequate attention to the education of their citizens has done and is doing great strides in development.
Sex education, also known as sexual education and relationship education should therefore be seen in the same direction as it is a means or process of acquiring information and forming attitudes and beliefs about sex, sexual identity, relationships and privacy. The purpose of sexual education is to help the individual to discover who he/she really is in terms of sexuality and to accept it with pride.
Education as we know, has a target group and sex education is no exception. Its main objective is the youth in society and should be to help them develop positive attitudes and behaviors about sex. It include information on all aspects of human sexual anatomy, such as the sexual organs and their functions, the physical changes that occur in the individual as a result of growth, emotional changes and their effects on the individual’s relationship to members of the opposite sex. Also not touch sensitive issues, and not just brushing more, since it has the tendency of the individual to suspect something strange about the information that were left out during the educational process and this could have serious consequences the individual in the future.
In addition, you have to touch issues such as family planning, reproduction, sexual orientation, sexual pleasure, values, decision making, dating, relationships and information on sexually transmitted diseases and their modes of contraction.
Among the agents of sex education are parents, and they play a central role; because parents have gone through most of the processes that rely heavily on sexual education. They are the right persons to tell young people exactly what it entails and are able to say the best ways of doing things, the example of how to have sex and address issues such as orgasm and all other experiences. Other agents including teachers, religious leaders, friends and the electronic media and print websites on sex education, sex advice column and more.
You can ask questions like “what is the right time to start sex education, is not it too early to expose gender-related issues to young people, I’m not encouraging him/her to start practicing what I’m teaching and a host of other issues.” You may want to know that if young people are not given more answers by adults for most of the things they experience in the course of their development, tend to fish for answers yes and who knows the consequences can be more destructive.
Moreover, according to a review of forty-eight studies of comprehensive sex and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) / education program on HIV in U.S. schools, there was strong evidence that such programs did not increase sexual activity but rather to reduce or increase rates of condoms or other contraceptives, or both. Parents and guardians must take the bull by the horns and take their pupils through comprehensive sex education. This gives them the opportunity to provide adequate information to them before their minds are contaminated by other sources.
Besides, it should be done at an early age as the individual at this stage are developing their behavior patterns and can get along with him. That is, a solid base is easily constructed at this stage that gives the individual the opportunity to build more complex knowledge to the advancement of time. It is very necessary for the teacher to find for the first time the amount and validity of the information the individual may have in their possession, others to make false factual corrections, and also add more informed about what the person they already have.
As seen in all forms of education, there are numerous advantages associated with sex education and they include: that minimizes the risks and dangers of the potentially negative outcomes of sexual behaviors such as unwanted pregnancies and STD infection, improve the quality of relationships between members of the opposite sex, helps youth make right choices of partners and equips the person to make decisions about their personal sexual activity.
It is clear that sex education does have an important role to play in the development of young people who can fit into the social and moral society and can also appreciate their God-given sexuality and express with all the pride and happiness.
