Importance of sex education for teenagers in schools

The change in the social scenario and different types of attractions around us has brought changes in our social values and the most victimized ones are the children and the teenagers. With lots of exposure with the help of television, magazines, movies the teenagers are much more perplexed and this leads to their entry into different types of crimes especially the sex-related crimes. Sex is an activity to enjoy but for the children and youths it is a topic about which they like to know more but there is hardly anybody to answer their questions properly. So the children have wrong notions about sex and they are not able to change their attitudes while they become adult. The development of a child is complete when we consider all the aspects of the child development and sex education for teenagers is one of the important points to be considered. With the help of the government and the NGOs, sex education in schools has been incorporated. Sex education is schools should be started at early stage so that by the time the child enters the adolescence, the child has all the required knowledge about sex and this will help the child to respect and have positive attitude towards the opposite sex and during the adulthood it will help in the development of good relationship with the partner. Sex education in teenagers is helpful in handling the following issues in very effective ways-

• Knowledge of sex organs
• How to take care of sex organs
• Reproductive organs and process of birth
• Unwanted sex before marriage and after marriage
• Teenage pregnancy
• Abortion and possibility of death during teenage abortion
• Sex abuse
• Protected sex
• Prevention of sexually transmitted diseases

sex education for teenagers help in making the base of the society strong .The teenagers receive knowledge about how to maintain personal hygiene, how to take care of their reproductive organs especially for the girls during their period etc thus onset of many diseases could be prevented. Sex education in schools is provided by the professionals through class room lectures, workshops, banners or audio-visual aids.  Such education is very mush helpful for the people living in the remote places as their exposure is much less than the urban people. The use of local language in imparting sex education is much more effective as it could be grasped by huge number of people.