Sex Education

Running head: Sex Education
SEX EDUCATION
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SEX EDUCATION
When we are young, we live a life - free of cares and worries but as we start growing and come of age we face the realities of life and we have to make all the decisions of our lives ourselves. So how you nurture the young mind is very important as it gives them a direction to follow throughout their lives and helps in making decisions. When a child reaches the age of puberty he has got lots of questions to be answered in his mind. At this time parents are the ones who first observe the physiological, emotional and psychological changes in the child. When I was young, I found my parents very proactive in this matter, always encouraging me to feel free to ask anything about sexuality. So like all teens I had different basic questions in my mind regarding sex which were well responded by my parents and it formed the basis of my knowledge about sex. But still curiosity in your mind incites you to look for more information.
Mostly children hesitate asking questions about sex from their parents and they prefer utilizing other available sources of information that could quench the thirst of their curiosity. In today`s world electronic media is the best available pool of information for teens and it is the one which is mostly utilized by youngsters. You can get here information almost about everything in this world. So I prefer using internet for any kind of information about sex that I need to asking my parents and getting embarrass. So, when you start browsing through internet you see a plethora of advertisements about sex which can mislead you- this is something I realized later. If you go through it you find the websites with sexual imagery that arouse libido. You have an unlimited access to hard-core pornography with a single click through internet and it evokes the coitus at an early age among children. Having an immature mind, unaware about the future consequences of what they are going to do, young people just simply follow what they see.
Same is the case with television shows, cinemas and magazines. Several programs containing sexy and erotic scenes are broadcasted. The concept of sex in the cinema and simulated sex stuffs excess through internet perverts the young mind. When you plan to go for a movie on a weekend, you have got a number of sexy and erotic pictures to be viewed. If you take a look at the film industry, you see that depiction of nudity and eroticism increases the chances of a success of a movie. So in every film you will find some sensual and erotic elements. Comedy movies are fraught with sexual elements where they depict man as sex seeking creature and bar workers, dancers as potentially willing sex partners. Movies like Sex and the city, Body heat, His Girl Friday, Bull Durham etc are rated as top ten because of the high content of sex in it. The continuous exposure to scenes of sex acts and pornography in movies gives a concept to young mind that life is all about having sex and fun. When you are young, energetic, fanatic, fun loving - you hardly listen to anyone and forgets all the restrictions put on you by your parents while having fun and entertainment. In this situation m...