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What does sex education mean?
Sex education is about human sexuality, involving sexual cognition, emotion, body and society.

Sex education is about human sexuality, involving sexual cognition, emotion, body and society. According to different classification standards, sex education can be divided into many categories, such as school sex education, family sex education, community sex education and social education.

Or it can be divided into abstinence education and comprehensive education according to the model. Among them, the course-based teaching process, which explores cognitive, emotional, physiological and social significance, is called comprehensive education (CSE).

Sex education is of great significance to individual growth. Scientific and comprehensive sex education helps the educated to have certain knowledge, skills, attitudes and values, thus ensuring their health, well-being and dignity.

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Receiving sex education is not only the birthright of children, but also the basis for maintaining their healthy growth and lifelong happiness. Article 28 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child stipulates: "Children have the right to education"; Article 29 stipulates that "the purpose of educating children should be to fully develop their personality, intelligence and physical and mental abilities".

Children are in the process of growing into a fully mature individual, which involves not only the physical maturity of the body, but also the development of emotion, spirit, morality and social and cultural cognition, which requires children to constantly learn various basic skills of social survival, improve their social communication ability and gradually develop from a natural person to a social person.

Education is the foundation to help children realize their full potential and the prerequisite to promote their all-round development. Sex education can meet the needs of children's sexual health development, promote the realization of children's sexual health rights, improve children's sexual health level, and even have a far-reaching impact on human health, family happiness, social stability and the future sustainable development of the country.