Sex Education

Sex was on my mind today ha.

First, a poor fellow practicum teacher with me was told to prepare for a science teaching lesson previously and today was surprised that he will be teaching the chapter sex education class instead. He stumped me when he asked if I got any suggestions for that, so obviously he had no idea or training for teaching it.

And then I flipped the papers and read this article about an art gallery withdrawing a nude painting from public viewing due to government censorship. It brought back memories about a past letter in ST of a reader complaining about parents bringing little kids into the opposite genders' toilet. Someone interview about the matter said that there will be too much to explain if a child sees a painting of a naked woman. It should be safe to assume that that parent is not intending on giving sex talks to the kids in the future. Such shyness in seeing the natural state of the human body.

To get a new teacher only trained in teaching the sciences to teach sex education, coupled with the prudish attitude of the government, seems to be an implicit sign that this issue is still not being taken seriously by our country. To constantly treat the naked body as being taboo is to cultivate an unhealthy attitude towards learning about sex. You can't have it both ways, to get kids to take sex education seriously and to see it as being natural, and at the same time having it censored everywhere! Furthermore, teaching sex education is a big responsibility, and it should be a proper program by itself to deal more with the associated social and medical issues, and not just be another chapter in the science textbook.

Anyway, I found this resource for my friend, maybe you guys will be interested to read more about the state of sexual education, particularly in the UK. You can take the sex test there too, and see the video episodes of the reports.