The biggest debate in India currently is not about our under-performing cricket team, but whether sex-education should be incorporated in our education system. This in a country where procreation is number 1 on our agenda - very soon, we will be the most populous country on earth.
Common sense would dictate that since children are exposed to everything through television, the internet and from our fast moving culture...it would be in their best interest that they are taught about it in a very organised and sensitive manner. However this whole debate has been sabotaged by political parties who with their various ideologies have prevented this from happening.
Critics argue that where sex-education has been introduced in the educational system, there (U.K, France to name a few) teenage pregnancies have only increased over a period of time. Accepting that is true, what do you think is happening now? Are there no teenage pregnancies now? Being closely involved in working with teenagers and younger people, I am aware that this is a ticking time bomb. The number of teenage pregnancies is not funny.
Information is power and with children attaining maturity as early as early as 9 and 10, it is very essential for sex-education to be introduced in a bigger way. Let us not beat around the bush and hope everything will be alright. It won't. One interesting thing about all this debate on national television is that children are being exposed to the A-Z of sex during the course of the discussions. One leading politician spoke of oral sex etc etc etc on national tv. He was against sex-education...hehehehe...
The cartoon above merely illustrates the reality of we Indians groping in the dark about what our illustrious ancestor wrote about in the form of the Kamasutra.
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