Aunty Lisa: What’s your take on sex education – Is Tawanda too rural?

In a country, a continent, where HIV infection rates are among the highest in the world I think it is VITAL that children know how to prevent being infected if and when they choose to have sex. It depends how the lesson was presented of course, but sex education doesn’t encourage children to have sex, it just gives them the facts so that they know what to do when they do want to have sex.

Lisa Martin
Lisa Martin

I sympathize that this kid felt uncomfortable, i guess for a 16 year old it would be quite embarrassing, but learning about sex is not shameful or wrong, it is a natural thing that should be enjoyed SAFELY when the time is right. And however much you preach to children that they shouldn’t have sex before marriage, of course there will always be those who do. Better to educate them about how to stay safe than ignore the problem in my opinion!! – Lisa Martin

Sex is natural and not taught but immoral sex isn’t natural its learnt. Schools have many subjects to care about. – Felix Chakabveyo

Sex education must be selective to sexually active people. This idea of giving sex education to school will do nothing but to ecourage them to do it. Why not conentrate on sexually active people not to take this to school who have better things to learn than sex. Tawanda is right. – Stephen Sobha

Pliz siyanai nenyaya yekudzidzisa vana zvinhu izvi, you are instead fuelling pre-marital sex rather than reducing it. – Trust Mupete

It’s too unAfrican to graphically show boys and girls simultaneously how things are done in the bedroom. The approach is not right. Tawanda, you are not too rural at all. No. – Enock Kwinika

But @ 16, other kids are having sex. So how will u know or choose from a sea of xool kids which ones are doing it and which ones are not. – Hwahwy Hwahwa

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