Implementation of Mandatory Sexual Education for Sexual Well-Being

Sukant Garg^*, Sajal Afzal & Jagdish Chandra Garg

Garg Nursing Home, Mahadji Park, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India

Dr. Sukant Garg, Garg Nursing Home, Mahadji Park, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Keywords: Adolescence; Sex; Taboos; STDs; Joint Involvement; Heathy Society

Abstract

Adolescents are at risk to contract a majority of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). On a usual note, adequate knowledge about sex has been missing in them due to the relatively limited exposure to the literature, which hampers their decision-making capacity. As a result, they have shown a high incidence of STDs in the recent years. Topics covered under sexual education are often ignored or misunderstood due to inappropriate curriculum and taboos with socio-cultural reasoning. The target of this report is to identify the reasons for these failures and to introduce a strategy to undo them. Our highlight is the obligation of certain measures to ensure the extraction of valuable output. Purpose of sexual education should be to provide information on ‘sexuality’, ethics, abuse, complications and general therapeutic management. Implementation of sexual education in younger years of life could be beneficial; it should be planned based on age and intellectual capacity of audience, and executed according to the language and region. Joint involvement of family, friends and teachers could be more productive. Social leaders should be positive involved. Government and non-government organizations should co-operate for unbiased implementation.

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