Sex education--fact or fiction?

Doreen Macintosh

doi:10.4102/curationis.v8i4.649

Abstract

The words Sex and Sexuality when coupled with the word Love should make a most exciting phrase. Sexual love is a source of power that makes life worth living. We seek each other out for comfort, pleasure, companionship, intellectual compatibility, inspiration and more importantly, our powerful sexual drives ensures the existence of mankind through reproduction. Human sexuality has the potential to provide us with an important source of goodness in our lives. It rewards us to know as much as we can about it and how to make it work positively for us and our children.

Highlights

The words Sex and Sexuality when coupled with the word Love should make a most exciting phrase
A sex education program m e must be flexible, as the social situation, level of education, age and stage of developm ent, sexual experience plus other factors will vary from group to group and culture to cul ture
The school sister is in an ideal position as she should already be known to the parents, teachers and pupils and health education is an im portant part of her role in pro moting good health

Summary

INTRODUCTION

The words Sex and Sexuality when coupled with the word Love should make a most exciting phrase. The ap proach to relationships appears to be more permissive, and no longer necessarily linked to marriage This can lead to confusion about, and a lack of sexual identification with, male, female and parenting roles. There are many who feel that by giving inform ation regarding sex means you are giving perm is sion for the adolescent to become sexually active. This is not so, as one cannot forget the natural curi osity of the child, nor the probing, questioning of the adolescent. It is a topic th at is widely dis cussed and heatedly debated be cause of the controversy that often surrounds it, for example, hom o sexuality and other sexual deviance

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