Day 22 – Q 4.What are the fallouts of low levels of sexual health literacy in India? Examine. How can sex education be promoted in India? Suggest.
4. What are the fallouts of low levels of sexual health literacy in India? Examine. How can sex education be promoted in India? Suggest.
भारत में यौन स्वास्थ्य साक्षरता के निम्न स्तर के क्या प्रभाव हैं? जांच करें। भारत में यौन शिक्षा कैसे बढ़ावा दिया जा सकती है? सुझाव दें।
Synopsis:
Sex education has been one of the highly controversial issues in Indian society. Due to increasing incidences of HIV/AIDS, RTIs/STIs and teenage pregnancies, there is a rising need to impart sex education. However, introducing sex education at school level always received mixed response from various segments of Indian society.
Fallouts of low levels of sexual health literacy:
- Early marriages is one of the main consequence of not having sexual health literacy
- High population of teenage pregnancy.
- Less space between children, which is one of the biggest health issue for both mother and child.
- Continued prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases e.g. HIV/AIDS, and social customs like child marriage
- Unsafe abortions will increase especially in teenagers.
- Psychological stress in the adolescents due to lack of understanding
- Sex becomes a taboo and people inhibit their willingness to talk about any problems which have huge psychological impact including suicide.
- Makes people vulnerable to unauthentic sources of information.
- Perpetuation of several myths.
- Increasing acceptance of Belief that pornography is real life.
Sex education is promoted in India:
The importance of delivery of sex education in a timely fashion to this significant demographic is emphasized by current statistics that show that almost one in every fifth person on the globe is an adolescent. India has the largest adolescent population and we need to take care of that section of people as they are more vulnerable to the effects of lack of sex education.
- We need to change the mind-set and need to change the attitude of the people, need to discuss openly and more frequently so that teenagers will express all the mishaps happening to them, as society itself consider it as a taboo.
- Need to include in the curriculum from the middle school time.
- In addition, the skills, adolescents develop from sexuality education are linked to more general life-skills, such as communication, listening, decision-making, negotiation and learning to ask for, and identify sources of help and advice such as parents, care givers, and professionals through the family, community, and health and welfare services.
- These useful life-skills are not only to applicable to sexual relationships but also in other aspects of life. They are taught to recognize situations in which they are pressurized by others and how to resist and deal with these, along with challenging long-standing prejudices they are faced in day to day life.
- Need to sensitise media and the cinema also need to be more conscious about the society and even they have social responsibility.
Conclusion:
Provision of sex education might result in multiple benefits to the adolescent boys and girls including delayed initiation of sexual activity, a reduction in unplanned and early pregnancies and their associated complications, fewer unwanted children, reduced risks of sexual abuse, greater completion of education and later marriages, reduced recourse to abortion and the consequences of unsafe abortion, and a curb of the spread of sexually transmitted diseases including HIV.
Best answer: Rashmi
