SEXUAL EDUCATION & ITS LIMITS IN INDIA
Why would sexual education lead to immorality and single parent families?
India need sex education as much as condom promotion to fight HIV/AIDS, there are 2.5 Mio HIV cases ( last estimation, earlier estimation was 5 Mio)
The Health Ministry and National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) are keen on introducing basic sex education as part of life-skills training in schools. With most parents and teachers shying away from discussing issues of even a remotely sexual nature, many adolescents have little or no access to correct information about sex in many parts of the country.
According to UNICEF, a “question box” put up in schools in Sangli district of Maharashtra, inviting students to post queries, got over 1,00,000 questions in a year. And it makes sense since in UNESCO publications it was shown that over 50 % of adolescent were thinking that HIV looks like serious ill man and 30 % still believe HIV is transferred by moskitos.
In India there are several tendencies to keep sexual education out of school and the most simple reason is obviously, it was never a part of education. Now in times of HIV and more freedom under teenager ( India in general is still very restrictive in sexual freedom … but the time the… but the time the are a changing) you might think there is no way to bypass sexual education.
The good sprits state that, even four-year-olds should be aware of their body parts and know the difference between right touch and wrong touch. Only this way sex education will protect children from abuse. “Children must be made aware. But this education should be age-specific — subtle for smaller children and detailed for adolescent .
And they find a good reason to ban sex education in schools due to the explicit exercises that Yuva, the new handbook on sex education, prescribes.
The controversy over the explicit nature of the sex education course material for schools has put the Delhi government on the defensive. it was decided to withdraw Volume 1 of the teacher’s handbook Yuva.
Volume 1 is meant for classes VI-VIII and Volume 2 for classes IX-XII. The book was prepared by the Department of Education, Delhi and Delhi State AIDS Control Society on the basis of a module developed by the HRD Ministry and National AIDS Control Society (NACO).
Another educational aid for AEP is a 66-page ‘flip chart’ produced jointly by UNICEF and NACO. The first section of the chart has realistic illustrations of naked people of both sexes at different ages, and detailed drawings of the male and female genitalia. The second section on ‘sexually transmitted infections’ — which 15-year-old boys and girls are required to view together — has graphic illustrations of the male and female sexual organs as they appear with STI.
Six states of INDIA , which have the most people living with HIV/AIDS in the world, have banned sex education for adolescents or refused to implement the curriculum, saying the course material was too explicit and it was against Indian culture.
"We are not giving ideas to young people," Rao said.
"They are already there. Some people are in denial that young people experiment with sex. They need to get real," is the answer.
Teachers state that both volumes were used to train them during seminars in 2006. Both the curriculum and seminars did not go down well with them. “Teachers were very upset about it. It encouraged some people to ask very embarrassing questions to women teachers,
” One teacher revealed that at the seminar she attended — a gathering of both sexes — all present were asked to relate their first sexual experience.
And now we clearly can see the refusal of sexual education ….. due to to the Victorian style of the paste, Indians not even the educated teacher elite is able to speak openenly about sex and that together with the deep- saffron parties and elites will make sexual education imposible.
The Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti, (Indian Saffron Radicals) which launched an agitation on July 14 for withdrawal of the books, claims the government planned to implement the programme in 2007 but backtracked after gauging the public mood
And Lalu Yadav (Ministry of Railways by that a specialist for sexual education anyway … now I understand why in the trains is always freezing cold) does not believe in sex education. We always suspected that he didn’t think much of family planning. But now we know that Lalu-ji would prefer it if his nine children were spared sex education lessons in the classroom.
According to the head of the Secondary School Teachers Association of Uttar Pradesh, all books that teach sex education should be withdrawn. Otherwise, the teachers will make a bonfire of them.
Teachers but books on fire ! Just because they are too embarrassed to discuss sex…. books must burn !
States like Kerala, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka have banned or refused to implement sex education in schools, saying the course material provided by the Centre is too explicit for Indian cultural sensibilities.
The controversy on sex education for school children has taken a severe turn in other Indian states. The Siksha Bachao Andolan Samiti, affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, has warned teachers that they may be violating the law if they take sex to the classroom.
In a letter to teachers across the country, they have noted that teachers can be charged under Section 354 of the IPC for outraging modesty of a woman, if they follow the exercises prescribed in the UNICEF training manual on sex education in their classrooms.
Among the exercises is one in which a girl and a boy are asked to shut their eyes and touch each other’s private parts. It is apparently an attempt to help students understand biological differences between men and women. “The teacher may plead that he has sought volunteers, but in matters of sex and touching/fondling with private parts, the consent of a minor in the eyes of law is no consent,” the letter said.
But obviously all this is wrong information because in the matter of fact there non such a training manual on sexual education of UNESCO … not for use in schools or any other educational or private occasions.
But there is Renuka Chowdhury’s suggesting that not only should sex education be taught in schools, but that Indian women should learn to take the safe sex in their own hands (no misunderstandings please) by buying condoms themselves because men tend not to bother. Renuka’s position is pretty much the government’s official line: in an era of AIDS prevalence and greater sexual awareness, it makes sense to educate people about sex in a serious and sensible way...
And my hero Renuka Chowdhury, also said "sex education is not titilating. It is not supposed to excite. It is to demystify. WHAW SO THERE ARE STILL NORMAL EDUCATED THINKING PERSONS HERE.
Railway Minister Lalu Prasad on Tuesday differed with his ministerial collegue Renuka Chowdhury on sex education for children in schools, saying that it was having a "bad impact" on them and was destroying Indian culture.
Opposing sex edcuation in schools, Prasad said that "whatever information is being given about sex is having bad impact on children. It is not good. This also has bad impact on society".
Asked specifically whether he favoured such education for children, the RJD chief said, "No, not at all. This is a very bad thing. Our entire culture can collapse".
Meanwhile, BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi has said sex education would lead to collapse of the education system and create an immoral society.
After all the BEE AND FLOWER MANUAL for teachers will come out, words like masturbation, arousal, erection , penetration, vagina , clitoris, penis and sexual intercourse have been deleted from the revised version of the training manual for teachers, diagrams which describe the journey from puberty to young adulthood have been done away with. This modified version is set to reach schools in a few weeks. If this will have any impact on HIV protection for sure not, but it will have a positive impact on birth control and that what is wanted the more Indian the better.
India need sex education as much as condom promotion to fight HIV/AIDS, there are 2.5 Mio HIV cases ( last estimation, earlier estimation was 5 Mio)
The Health Ministry and National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) are keen on introducing basic sex education as part of life-skills training in schools. With most parents and teachers shying away from discussing issues of even a remotely sexual nature, many adolescents have little or no access to correct information about sex in many parts of the country.
According to UNICEF, a “question box” put up in schools in Sangli district of Maharashtra, inviting students to post queries, got over 1,00,000 questions in a year. And it makes sense since in UNESCO publications it was shown that over 50 % of adolescent were thinking that HIV looks like serious ill man and 30 % still believe HIV is transferred by moskitos.
In India there are several tendencies to keep sexual education out of school and the most simple reason is obviously, it was never a part of education. Now in times of HIV and more freedom under teenager ( India in general is still very restrictive in sexual freedom … but the time the… but the time the are a changing) you might think there is no way to bypass sexual education.
The good sprits state that, even four-year-olds should be aware of their body parts and know the difference between right touch and wrong touch. Only this way sex education will protect children from abuse. “Children must be made aware. But this education should be age-specific — subtle for smaller children and detailed for adolescent .And they find a good reason to ban sex education in schools due to the explicit exercises that Yuva, the new handbook on sex education, prescribes.
The controversy over the explicit nature of the sex education course material for schools has put the Delhi government on the defensive. it was decided to withdraw Volume 1 of the teacher’s handbook Yuva.
Volume 1 is meant for classes VI-VIII and Volume 2 for classes IX-XII. The book was prepared by the Department of Education, Delhi and Delhi State AIDS Control Society on the basis of a module developed by the HRD Ministry and National AIDS Control Society (NACO).
Another educational aid for AEP is a 66-page ‘flip chart’ produced jointly by UNICEF and NACO. The first section of the chart has realistic illustrations of naked people of both sexes at different ages, and detailed drawings of the male and female genitalia. The second section on ‘sexually transmitted infections’ — which 15-year-old boys and girls are required to view together — has graphic illustrations of the male and female sexual organs as they appear with STI.
Six states of INDIA , which have the most people living with HIV/AIDS in the world, have banned sex education for adolescents or refused to implement the curriculum, saying the course material was too explicit and it was against Indian culture.
"We are not giving ideas to young people," Rao said.
"They are already there. Some people are in denial that young people experiment with sex. They need to get real," is the answer.
Teachers state that both volumes were used to train them during seminars in 2006. Both the curriculum and seminars did not go down well with them. “Teachers were very upset about it. It encouraged some people to ask very embarrassing questions to women teachers,” One teacher revealed that at the seminar she attended — a gathering of both sexes — all present were asked to relate their first sexual experience.
And now we clearly can see the refusal of sexual education ….. due to to the Victorian style of the paste, Indians not even the educated teacher elite is able to speak openenly about sex and that together with the deep- saffron parties and elites will make sexual education imposible.
The Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti, (Indian Saffron Radicals) which launched an agitation on July 14 for withdrawal of the books, claims the government planned to implement the programme in 2007 but backtracked after gauging the public moodAnd Lalu Yadav (Ministry of Railways by that a specialist for sexual education anyway … now I understand why in the trains is always freezing cold) does not believe in sex education. We always suspected that he didn’t think much of family planning. But now we know that Lalu-ji would prefer it if his nine children were spared sex education lessons in the classroom.
According to the head of the Secondary School Teachers Association of Uttar Pradesh, all books that teach sex education should be withdrawn. Otherwise, the teachers will make a bonfire of them.
Teachers but books on fire ! Just because they are too embarrassed to discuss sex…. books must burn !
States like Kerala, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka have banned or refused to implement sex education in schools, saying the course material provided by the Centre is too explicit for Indian cultural sensibilities.
The controversy on sex education for school children has taken a severe turn in other Indian states. The Siksha Bachao Andolan Samiti, affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, has warned teachers that they may be violating the law if they take sex to the classroom.
In a letter to teachers across the country, they have noted that teachers can be charged under Section 354 of the IPC for outraging modesty of a woman, if they follow the exercises prescribed in the UNICEF training manual on sex education in their classrooms.
Among the exercises is one in which a girl and a boy are asked to shut their eyes and touch each other’s private parts. It is apparently an attempt to help students understand biological differences between men and women. “The teacher may plead that he has sought volunteers, but in matters of sex and touching/fondling with private parts, the consent of a minor in the eyes of law is no consent,” the letter said.
But obviously all this is wrong information because in the matter of fact there non such a training manual on sexual education of UNESCO … not for use in schools or any other educational or private occasions.
But there is Renuka Chowdhury’s suggesting that not only should sex education be taught in schools, but that Indian women should learn to take the safe sex in their own hands (no misunderstandings please) by buying condoms themselves because men tend not to bother. Renuka’s position is pretty much the government’s official line: in an era of AIDS prevalence and greater sexual awareness, it makes sense to educate people about sex in a serious and sensible way...
And my hero Renuka Chowdhury, also said "sex education is not titilating. It is not supposed to excite. It is to demystify. WHAW SO THERE ARE STILL NORMAL EDUCATED THINKING PERSONS HERE.
Railway Minister Lalu Prasad on Tuesday differed with his ministerial collegue Renuka Chowdhury on sex education for children in schools, saying that it was having a "bad impact" on them and was destroying Indian culture.
Opposing sex edcuation in schools, Prasad said that "whatever information is being given about sex is having bad impact on children. It is not good. This also has bad impact on society".
Asked specifically whether he favoured such education for children, the RJD chief said, "No, not at all. This is a very bad thing. Our entire culture can collapse".
Meanwhile, BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi has said sex education would lead to collapse of the education system and create an immoral society.
After all the BEE AND FLOWER MANUAL for teachers will come out, words like masturbation, arousal, erection , penetration, vagina , clitoris, penis and sexual intercourse have been deleted from the revised version of the training manual for teachers, diagrams which describe the journey from puberty to young adulthood have been done away with. This modified version is set to reach schools in a few weeks. If this will have any impact on HIV protection for sure not, but it will have a positive impact on birth control and that what is wanted the more Indian the better.
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