Should sex education be implemented in our education syllabus as a compulsory subject?
As we all know, there have been much debate on the issue of sex education in school. In Malaysia, it is clear that sex education is not fully inplemented in our education syllabus, although only a handful information about sex is incorporated in the subject of Science. Well, it seems to me that sex education should not be introduced fully into our education system, and it might be worst to make it a compulsory subject. First of all, the efficiency of sex education is yet to be known, and is open to doubt. The idea of this implementation is arguably good, however it might not be good in practice. Through this formal education, students would be totally exposed to sex. Besides being given information on how to perform proper sexual intercourse, the students would also be taught the method to prevent pregnancy, . In fact, there is still some possiblities, in which the students would abuse this knowledge. As they are "well-educated"on how to have sex safely by using condoms or other precautinary measures, they might practise sex more frequently and even freely with different sex partners - there would be no harmful consequences befall them. To make things worst is that, sex education would be used as an excuse for their irresponsible act. Living in a conservative country, fear has been instilled in our mind as a precaution preventing us from carrying out activities which are considered to be against our tradition. "Don't cut nails at night, or else you will meet ghosts!", "Finsih the rice in your bowl, or your wife would be ugly!" All these typical examples of ways which empowered the image of negative consequences are preventing us from doing something unethical. But, sex education has demolished this barrier of fear - students are now much more closer to the naked facade of sex. As a result, students would show a contempt for their actions. Now, let us think about the efficiency in another way. This topic has been discussed for ages, yet Malaysian government has no intention to impart sex knowledge to the students. If sex education is really effective in preventing sex before marriage, abortion of babies, and even the infection of STDs, why didn't our goverment introduce it long time ago? Hence, before sex education becomes part of our curriculum, the aim of implementation should be first identified, while its effectiveness should also be acknowledged.
