Sex education ≠ Sex behavior education
Many people have a narrow understanding of sex education.
Let's take a look at these opposing voices, which can be roughly divided into three types:
Viewpoint 1: Sex education is sex education, which will make children more interested in sex.
This view actually confuses the boundaries between sex education and sex behavior education, and regards sex education as Pandora's box, which cannot be controlled once it is opened.
This is actually a manifestation of adults' ignorance of sex education.
For children, sex education is not a simple sex education, nor is it a physical health knowledge class that we experienced as children.
The purpose of early sex education for children is to teach them to know the body correctly, to treat the relationship between men and women correctly, to respect the opposite sex, to learn what privacy is and how to protect themselves.
Its most important significance is actually to educate children's values and let them know equality and respect. Such values will accompany children all their lives and make them a sound person.
Viewpoint 2: Children are still young, so there is no need to start sex education.
This understanding is also wrong.
Babies can already distinguish between men and women when they are around 1 ~ 2 years old. At the age of 2, they began to be curious about the different physical characteristics between the sexes. After the age of 3, with the further development of sexual cognition, children may feel shy or unnatural about other people's private parts and feel ashamed.
If parents think that their children are young and avoid talking about sex with their children, they will think that these are all bad things and have insufficient awareness of privacy protection.
When something bad happens, they don't know how to tell their parents, or even dare not tell them; This is also the reason why many cases of child sexual assault are discovered very late.
Sex education should start as soon as possible, so that children can realize that sex is a natural and common thing, not a shameful and dirty thing, but something that can be communicated with their parents.