Sex Education in Cambodia
Posted: Wed May 01, 2019 12:45 am
Talking seriously about sex and giving teenagers good information about sex remains largely taboo in Cambodia, but some people are speaking out about the need for better sexual education.
April 26, 2019
De-sexing SEX in schools
Dr. Victor Ti / Khmer Times
Several decades ago, Asian society was an extremely shy society. The word sex was a taboo at home and in school. Nobody needed to be reminded about it. The subject was hardly brought up, tacitly if ever, and almost always spontaneously shot down, often with a sneered look by somebody. Almost invariably, the abrupt response would sounded something like this, “Shut up, don’t be dirty-minded, can’t we discuss something else?”
Time changes. The advancement of information technology is a great disruptor of the way people perceive things. And that determines how they behave. Over the past few decades, the openness to discussion about sex has changed tremendously. Sex is there in the web, whatever you want to see. Anytime, with a single click, explicit sex, once X-rated or obscene appears on the screen almost instantaneously. Anybody, regardless of their age, can put their finger on the mouse and just click.
In this era of advanced information technology, the web takes major control of our teens’ mind more than ever. We should not leave our teens entirely to the internet to educate them on sex. We need to exert our positive influence through proper sex education in school.
Sex education in school at this time is even more crucial than ever, not because there is a paucity of information about sex, but rather there is a serious imbalance in the information that teenagers selectively assimilate for the development of their sexual consciousness. There is a need to guide and educate them about sex to ensure that they practice safe sex and act responsibly if they happen to indulge in it.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50598353/d ... n-schools/
April 26, 2019
De-sexing SEX in schools
Dr. Victor Ti / Khmer Times
Several decades ago, Asian society was an extremely shy society. The word sex was a taboo at home and in school. Nobody needed to be reminded about it. The subject was hardly brought up, tacitly if ever, and almost always spontaneously shot down, often with a sneered look by somebody. Almost invariably, the abrupt response would sounded something like this, “Shut up, don’t be dirty-minded, can’t we discuss something else?”
Time changes. The advancement of information technology is a great disruptor of the way people perceive things. And that determines how they behave. Over the past few decades, the openness to discussion about sex has changed tremendously. Sex is there in the web, whatever you want to see. Anytime, with a single click, explicit sex, once X-rated or obscene appears on the screen almost instantaneously. Anybody, regardless of their age, can put their finger on the mouse and just click.
In this era of advanced information technology, the web takes major control of our teens’ mind more than ever. We should not leave our teens entirely to the internet to educate them on sex. We need to exert our positive influence through proper sex education in school.
Sex education in school at this time is even more crucial than ever, not because there is a paucity of information about sex, but rather there is a serious imbalance in the information that teenagers selectively assimilate for the development of their sexual consciousness. There is a need to guide and educate them about sex to ensure that they practice safe sex and act responsibly if they happen to indulge in it.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50598353/d ... n-schools/