ATTITUDE OF ADOLESCENT BOYS ABOUT SEX EDUCATION FOR HEALTHY SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR

Abstract

Adolescent period is the foundation period for anyone to give the Sex education since puberty starts in adolescent period for both boys and girls. In every human’s life sexuality is one of the important aspects. It has influence and major part through their thoughts, experiencing of pleasure, reproduction intimacy, sexual identities, sexual roles etc. In fact, most of the problems related to sex and sexuality issues among the adolescents are because of the fact that problems they have given information only from text book contents. Very often adolescents are not given education on various issues related to human relation, behaviour, sex and sexual relations. Aparajita Choudhury (2006) has discussed the importance of Family Life Education (FLE), especially in Indian Context. She says that the purpose of FLE is to change or modify individual behaviour through new information and skill, which will leads to communicating and loving more effectively. The present study aims to describe the attitude of adolescent boys about sex education for healthy sexual behaviour. Hence, for this research, descriptive design has been adopted. (Royce Singleton, Bruce. C. Straits, Margaret. M. Straits and Ronald. J. McAllister, 1988).The research findings and reviews about sex education show that there is a need to improvement among adolescent boys on sex education as more focus was given for girls’ sex education. The researcher would like to suggest three stage sex educations for an individual as a continuous sex education for life, namely child sex education, adolescent sex education and adult sex education.