Let’s Talk About Sex Part 2

Sex education is a critical topic and it needs to be spoken about from scratch. Why? Well, all the aunties and uncles of India are spreading INCORRECT information to the youth (I mean c’mon aunty, we know we’re not gifts from god)
Well, sex is a taboo in India! Why? (Link to first article)
In the 21st century, the world has seen an alarming increase in teenage, yes TEENage, sexual encounters. Most of these “encounters” are unplanned…and when things are not planed, what happens? A disaster!
Let’s be honest, rebellion is a part of every teenager’s spirit, when you say ‘no’, teens will think ‘yes’. When you tell a teen not to do something, rest assured, they will do it. So, when the typical Indian mother prohibits anything to do with sex, it follows that the teen absolutely will. With hormones raging through their bloodstream, it is only inevitable that sooner or later they’ll be googling “sex” at three am, hidden under their covers. That’s when they will wonder whether anything their mother has ever told them is true!
So eventually the curious 13-year-old will come around to learn more about this elusive fantasy. How? Through the internet of course! The internet, a sea of overwhelming knowledge will have inundated him until his brain goes into over drive. (Yes, it’s worse than the aunty-uncles)
What is right and what is wrong? Dude, just ask your friends! And from there, things get even worse if that’s possible!
This teenager becomes inundated with incorrect information and start making uninformed decisions. These decisions will lead to unsafe sex, teenage pregnancies or sexually transmitted diseases. Therefore, sex education is vital. As important as math and geography. Yet, still so little is known about it.
However, learning about sex doesn’t have to end up in an unwanted pregnancy or an STD. The likelihood of such behaviour is attributed to biological factors, i.e., hormonal changes during puberty and a growing desire to explore one’s sexuality. As true as it may be, we need to have a more age-appropriate approach towards empathising with ‘teenage curiosity’.
In order to better empathise with teens, we must understand the environmental factors that are involved in the development of ‘teenage curiosity’. Right off the bat, sociocultural factors, (that means what environment your parents and their ancestors grew up in) play a role in fuelling curiosity about the term ‘sex’. Society plays a dual role. How? On the one hand, it quells our desires to explore our sexuality by regarding sex as a taboo, while on the other hand, the society also (inadvertently) makes us curious
In India, we don’t hesitate to have sex (lets be honest, our extremely large population didn’t just appear out of thin air, as much as the aunties would like us to believe so), but when the time comes to talk about it and spread safe sex awareness or just accept it as an element of nature, we fail. HIL is here to make this a success.
Even though pre-marital sex is a taboo in India, teenagers and young adults are still involved in it simply owning to their urge of embracing the ‘forbidden’. Remember, NO = YES. The lesser our society talks about sex the more our generation becomes curious. So, whats the solution? Let’s talk about sex!

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