SEX

EDUCATION
10-EINSTEIN

JOHN RICARDO AMPONG

VICTOR CABUS
SEAN DE GUZMAN
JAZMIN CRISOSTOMO
MARIAN VALDEZ
 INTRODUCTION

According to Iyer, (2018) Sex Education is the provision of information about

bodily development; sex, sexuality and relationship, along with skills-building to help

communicate about and make informed decisions regarding sex and their sexual health.

We can't all deny that sex education is something we must learn for and not avoid or

something we must put aside because it is a knowledge that is part of being a normal

human. Honestly, people nowadays make themselves uneducated, their refusal to learn

about knowledge concerning the way our bodies will react or how our body would react

to such sensual actions is just saddening.

Education is not just only giving information and facts, but also teaching different

skills that allow young people to use those information effectively and make safe life

choices. The grade 10 students or the students will benefit from this firstly, by having

more knowledge about things that they'll be experiencing in the future, they will be able

to avoid certain discrepancies which may result to a total upside down turn in their life.

The students are not the only ones that're going to be benefitting from this, but also the

parents. By knowing that their children are ready to face issues that even adults have a

difficulty facing, they'll be living a comfortable life without the worry of their children

suffering from the consequences of unsafe and uneducated sex. Not only that, but also

the fact that this builds a strong bond of trust between the parents and their children.
 However, this state of sex education to the curriculum or system of education

has not went easy. It’s gone through many debates, experts, argumentative judgements

and many more ideal decision making, to put it simply, it’s so hard to decide if it should

be added to the education system because it will lead many factors. Since the early

1980s, schools have been identified as a key setting for health promotion. This

comprehensive approach encourage schools to be health enhancing across the taught

and 'hidden' curricula and provides an ideal context for sex education. Health Education

Research , Volume 15, Issue 4, 1 August 2000, pp. 506 - 508. On the other hand, sex

education might transform children into responsible adults, it is a known fact that

teenagers today turn sexually active, therefore, sex education can help them

understand the abstinence in the early years or it can atleast teach them to be

responsible.

To be added, it is much better if the children learn from schools rather than

letting them with their own self because the information they might browse can mislead

them. According to Melgar, (2018) "We observe that our education on sex is more

focused on contraceptives and not as a life perspective. We believed that such

education had to combat the taboo on sexuality discussions, and rather than bringing

about information but also a change in attitudes". Based on what she have said on

forum during Likhaan Center for Women's Health, the battle about lack of knowledge

and being hypocrite about this sensitive issue is a factor that as people that all lived in

this world has many improvements need to develop because we are the one who

makes ourselves stupid and make irrelevant with this issue.

 Now, there are many effects of lack of Sex Education, and one of the major

ones are teenage or adolescent pregnancies. According to WHO (2018) there are

approximately 16 million girls aged 15 to 19 years old and 2.5 million girls under 16

years old that give birth each year in developing regions. Furthermore, in a related

study, WHO (2018) also stated that every year, some 3.9 million girls aged 15 to 19

years undergo unsafe abortions, which means that about 24% of these young women

are facing higher risks of eclampsia, puerperal endometritis, systemic infections, and

death. Such tragic and heavy baggage has fallen on these young women's shoulders. If

only they received the help and education they need.

Teenage Pregnancies aren't the only result of lack of Sex Education. There is

the case about STDs too. According to UNAIDS (2017) there are 36.9 million people

globally are living with HIV, these much people, affected by a depressing and deadly

virus, is horrifying. Furthermore, UNAIDS (2017) stated that 940,000 have already

perished from HIV. There wouldn't be half a million people dead. There wouldn't be 36.9

million people living with HIV. If only these people have been given the proper education

and help that they need.

We live in a world where people are literally close minded, “Children should

know sex is something natural that their parents do. That it's something adults do,

adults who can manage the consequence of sexual behavior. They should also have

values of self-respect, respect for others, regardless of who they are. Regardless of

their bodies and sexual behavior, non-judgementalism and a positive attitude towards

sexuality", Melgar, (2018). We are sadly in the present generation where the people

have lost their common sense. By contrast, modern classroom sex education programs
deliberately aim to let it all hang out, leaving nothing to the imagination, in contrast to

the hypocrisy with which matters pertaining to sex were formerly thought to have been

dealt with. As stated by Whitehead, (1995) "Not infrequently they are K-through 12

programs, keeping the growing child's mind constantly focused on his developing

sexuality throughout his or her school career”. Based on what he have said it is quiet

difficult to a child focused his mind on learning sex education but it will a big help if a

young child in his early age he learned the right and the wrong.

Furthermore, the sexually transmitted diseases were spread throughout the

world, knowledge about sex education might a big factor to avoid sexually transmitted

diseases that has no cure. “There’s nothing simple about teaching kids about sex. In

these times of precocious pre-teens, pregnancy among teenagers and sexually

transmitted disease and infections (STD's), children and adolescents need much more

than a one time chat about the bird and the bees. Pregnancy prevention and safe sex

really should be an ongoing, age appropriate topics.

Somehow we'll never know what the present holds and what the future will bring

so that we can live in peace. According to Bridger, (2014) "Young people have the right

to lead healthy lives, and society has the responsibility to prepare youth by providing

them with comprehensive sexual health education that gives them the tools they need

to make healthy decisions.”

In conclusion, the goal for this study, is to educate, to give insight, to enlighten

people about the benefits for them and for the future generation, the positive effects Sex

Education brings and the drastic decrease in numbers of people living with HIV and

young women going through teenage pregnancy.