Sex Education in the Philippines

          Sex Education in public or private schools has been a very controversial issue here in our country because of HIV and Teenage Pregnancy growing and increasing.

          The Problem with sexuality, it’s a turn off for a religious country like Philippines when we talked about sexuality. More on, sexual education can go against moral or religious beliefs of an individual. Many schools do not teach abstinence-only, but to teach how to have safe sex while many of the religious and family stress marriage before intercourse. In the Bible, sexual intercourse without marrying someone, is a sin. Teaching sexuality is not easy, most schools only teach it as a brief interlude in physical education or health class. This is not enough time to relate effectively to serious materials. Many parents disapprove sex education because they don’t want their children to be  negatively affected or eventually resist their parental beliefs.

           Teachers are not always adequately train to teach sexual education to students. It may violate their own beliefs or morals on the subject rather than continuing with the facts. Students may still be subject to embarrassment or excitable by subject matter. This can make for out of control classrooms if students take to laugh or make inappropriate comments. Some of this, teachers may lack in their proper skills or motivation to teach it because it might not fit to their students age. Sex education may lead to untimely sex, students will start exploring sex at very young age because of curiosity. Many students finish their class without a good understanding, they only know that they should have sex until they get married. Few Students will know how to use contraception pills or other objects that use in sexual intercourse. Students may attending school but some of them didn’t apply what they have learn. Do we think sexual education can decrease the increasing growth of teenage pregnancy? Maybe it can, but we need further information so that we can develop our learning skills about sexuality. I never thought that Sex Education is important today because Sex Education can no longer help if we have this in our country because we are curious enough of what are the things that we need to know when we get old but today’s generation, what we see is what we do. Some Filipinosare conservative and values their virginity measuring it equal with their own dignity.

          Sex can be seen all over the media. Cases that are talk about sexuality can seen in social websites by just one click. We can do what we can do in just one click. Modern gadgets process what you do, it is very harmful because we cannot secure teenagers by using modern gadgets. Because of what they watched, it may lead them to use contraception pills. This is an issue that strongly observing by the religious group or individuals. Maybe religions are letting people to give birth, but they are against in preventing unwanted pregnancy by  using condoms and pills.