A study in India –
Revealed that majority of school teachers was in
favour of imparting sex education to school children.
Fourteen (14) years of age was
considered to be the most appropriate for
imparting sex education by 28.6 percent of
school teachers.
A recent study from Nigeria –
Presents paramount significance of providing sexual
education to youth.
This helped them to develop critical thinking and
insights on range of family life/sexual issues like premarital sex and
pregnancy, abortion, teacher-student relationships and lesbianism.
Another study in Indonesia –
Suggests the mixed viewpoint on the pros and cons of sex
education among youth.
Proper information about sexuality should be provided
to youth to help them grow healthy and responsible.
A study conducted in
Venezuela –
This has highlighted the importance of imparting sex
education to youth, as it helped to prevent adolescent pregnancy,
abortion, HIV/AIDS and sexual abuse.
What do we do?
Teen Talks in open forum discussion with teenagers ranging
on a variety of topics, from puberty to health and safety related ones.
Forum values -
Free flowing, non-judgmental, unbarred discussions,
in the absence of parents or school authorities.
Give enough space for the participants to ask as much direct
questions as possible and try to reply just as openly and correctly
without any bar by a women Guide.
Afterwards in the session include other participants like
Teachers, Parents, Social Worker, and Representatives from other groups, NGO’s
etc.
Encouraging people with contradicting views to share their
opinions too.
The Topics
which will be discussed -
- Body Image.
- Our Society.
- Some Myths and Facts.
- Culture and Cultural Taboos.
- Safe use of Social Media and technology (Face book / Whatsapp, Inter Net, in whole)
- Peer Pressure.
- Relationships and Break-ups.
- Pornography
- Masturbation
- Physical Involvement with partner.
- Learning to Say NO to partner
There are many other things too we will discuss them
another time.
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