The Importance Of Sex Education

More and more Chinese adolescents are engaging in sexual activity. As a result, the numbers of unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among Chinese young adults have increased markedly. Most people in China believe that the increasing number of teenage pregnancies and abortions is highly related to a lack of sex education, but adults like parents and teachers still feel the courses on sex are unnecessary. However, in order to decrease the number of teenage pregnancies and STIs, providing sex education for school-aged children from both schools and homes is very important.
The lack of sex education has led to some shocking stories. One story I have read in newspaper says a young girl who gave birth without realizing she was pregnant, and another who delivered her baby alone in a toilet and then hung him in a carrier bag from the window so that her parents would not find out. The child fell two storeys and died.
Chinese young people today are exposed to the challenges towards traditional moral behavior. They are confused and forming the misinterpretations by some of the mass media, which made a consensus about the need to promote sex education in schools. When we were very little, we often asked our parents the question “Where did I come from?” It seems one of the toughest questions for Chinese parents to answer. My mom actually told me that she picked up me out of the rubbish bin. Ironically, I believed her words until I was in middle school. As stated by Jonathan Watts, some parents still refuse to accept that they have a responsibility to educate their children. “I didn’t understand sex when I was a child,” one parent told CCTV. “In retrospect, it was a good thing. Why can’t my son just grow up with the s...

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... key parts that students are interested in most, such as sexual intercourse.
To some extent, Fok agrees that the greatest problem faced by most schools in their provision of sex education is the shortage of human resources. Fifty-two per cent of schools ranked the lack of teachers trained in sex education as the major hurdle in implementing sex education. He found that the teachers are not willing to take up sex education because they are uncomfortable and embarrassed in teaching sex education courses.
I claim that there are two main reasons why sex education is hard to be provided to school-aged children. One reason is that teachers have no idea how to teach or how to guide students to receive proper sex education. Teachers are even clueless about how much they should teach and in what way. The other reason is the lack of proper textbooks. The textbook that we