Re:National convention against sex education in Delhi

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To the forum members,

I wish to question the National forum against sex education that, if they ban

sex education on the name of culture, are they willing to take resposibility of

banning all the porn material so easily accessible on the net as well as the sex

shown through the TV chanels, movies and music videos, blue films that encourage

and play on the sexuality feelings of youth and portray wrong image of sex and

sexulaity.

How are they going to stop this everyday damage to our culture through TV,

videos and movies, advertisements related to sex treatments and toys. Do they

have guts to stop all this. Only then they can talk about banning sex education.

Are they purposely turning blind eye to the fact that most of the wrong

information about sex for adolescents comes from pornographic material that is

so easiliy available. In the absence of any source to

get scintific information it would be a disaster to stop sex education in

schools.

Also we cannot compare the earlier times when exposure through network was

alomost absent or limited.

Also how many youth representatives were present at the meeting?

What would help is specifying the content of sex education material with prpoer

review by the experts, training the teachers, specifyong who and how it should

be conducted with close monitoring by NGOs

working on the issue of youth and sexuality/ HIV/ AIDS

Banning sex education otherwise would be really disastrous.

Swati Pongurlekar

e-mail: <swatip187@...>