At first, people understood sex education as transmitting basic knowledge of physiology and health. With the progress and development of society, modernity education is not only a simple sexual health education, but also includes preventing sexual assault, promoting gender equality, mastering the principles and skills of love, marriage and sexual interpersonal communication, reflecting on morality and law, promoting sexual pleasure and many other aspects.
It can be said that human sexuality and the demand for sex education accompany our life.
As soon as the child is born, parents will judge the sex of ta, give her a name, teach her to live like a boy or a girl, tell her to know her body and private parts, and learn to protect herself. This is the origin of family sex education. When children are in the senior grade of primary school, they should tell them about puberty, such as menstruation and nocturnal emission, and understand the knowledge of physical development.
Sex education in adolescence is particularly important. Children may immediately fall into the conflict between emotion and sexual desire, so in the middle and high school stage, sexual health knowledge, basic principles of interpersonal communication, and awareness of gender equality should also begin to slowly penetrate into children to prepare them for entering universities or society.
Sex education for teenagers is how to make appropriate choices and judgments in the face of desires and feelings in a complex social environment. For example, how to fall in love healthily, safely and responsibly, whether to have sex, and how to understand marriage? How to avoid sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancy as much as possible? How can we reduce the risk of sex and enjoy sex without indulging in simple happiness?
In the sex education for middle-aged and elderly people, there are specific problems such as how to deal with the crisis in marriage, such as cheating, quarreling and disharmony in sexual life. How to face sexual aging and the sexual needs of the elderly?
It can be seen that healthy growth and happy life are inseparable from sex education.
Sex education is not simply imparting physiological knowledge, but more helping people to establish scientific and positive sexual values. Scientific values require people to constantly think and learn sexual knowledge, while positive values require people to bravely face sexual puzzles and problems, handle and resolve conflicts and contradictions, make appropriate decisions, and adopt healthy and safe behaviors.
Sex education teaches people to understand sex, life and love. Civilized society can not be separated from life and love, and can not be separated from sex education. It can be said that sex education is the light of civilization.
British writer Lawrence said: "Sex and beauty are the same thing, just like fire and flame. If you hate sex, you hate beauty. The biggest disaster of our civilization is the morbid hatred of sex. "
Lu Xun said: "To be a civilized person is to liberate human nature and popularize education, especially sex education, which is exactly what educators should do."
Popularize sex education, promote sexual health and promote sexual civilization. Our China people's sexuality has changed from ignorance in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic to modern confusion. It can be said that on the one hand, we are ashamed of our desire for sex education, on the other hand, it is also the result of our lack of sex education. The rising number of people infected with AIDS, the occurrence of sexual assault, the present situation of gender inequality, the reality of sexual impotence, sexual freedom and the soaring divorce rate all urgently need the knowledge and concept of sex education to help people gain happiness better.
Obviously, sex education is not everything, but a healthy and happy person and a civilized and harmonious country cannot do without sex education.
Why do we need sex education?
I think the most fundamental reason is our passionate pursuit of life, love and beauty in human nature.