Sex education banned in five Indian states. The reason; the material is too sensitive and against Indian culture. I would personally encourage sex education. Young people of this day are constantly being exposed to different ideas. Movies, magazines, advertisements and even newspapers have some form of sex in them. It’s either a scene in a movie or a provocative pose as you flip the page.

This will eventually cause youths and adults to imagine how it is like to experience sex. With more freedom given to people and us valuing more privacy nowadays, why not experiment? I mean, we have the time and the resources. Nothing, other than maybe our conscience and for some religion stops us.

Most if not all religions, despise sex outside marriage. A considerable number of people are turning away from religion and preferring to not believe in any god or Supreme Being; their reason: it takes commitment and time, and some would rather stay neutral. These people do not have the moral basis of religion to guide them. So what would stop them from experimenting with sex at an early age?

Such experimentation could potentially lead them to contract Sexually Transmitted Diseases like HIV/AIDS which would affect them for life. Even though it may be embarrassing to talk about sex to youths as it may seem inappropriate, it is the only way to let them know the angers of STDs.

If sexual education goes against Indian culture, then why not introduce STDs and leave it at that. You can’t leave STDs out of doctor’s training even if it may be sensitive, can you? Likewise, if you would like save kids’ lives kids by making them stay away from pre-marital sex, introducing mild sex education or at least education on STDs is necessary. Saving lives is worth the short period of embarrassment. I believe the prospect of having a terminal illness or being infertile for the rest of one’s would lessen the number of people willing to experiment.

This problem is comparable to a child who plays with fire. The child does not know the dangers of fire, unless he is told, or if he has a first hand experience with it. And usually parents would not wait for the “first hand experience” to occur.

So maybe another approach to sex education would be to educate parents and encourage them to talk to their kids about STDs. A parent would rather save his/her child’s life than to let the child die, due to the sensitivity of the issue.

To sum it up, I feel that the banning of sex education in some states in India should be taken into account once again. People’s lives do matter, and by not allowing them to learn about potentially life-threatening diseases, their right to knowledge that could save their lives is being taken away. In other words, people would make decisions not knowing that it could kill them or scar them for life because they do not know that these decisions could have such drastic effects.