Sexuality is a very significant facet of all life as well as human beings’ life. In the growing stage of young people, turn in a dilemma when making a decision in relationships, sexual behavior, or sexuality. The indecisions of young people significantly hamper the health and future lives. The young generation must have the authority of thinking to make their decision right and enjoy healthy lives. Administration and society have the principal obligation to ready a young age by taking steps with a comprehensive education on sexual health that provides them the ability and freedom to make the right decisions about health and their future.

What is sex education?

Sex education refers to the quality teaching about topics related to relationships, sexual behavior, and sexuality, enhancing values, and exploring beliefs based on the topics. As a result, they gained the skills which help to make relationships and conduct their sexuality. 

In other words, Sex education is the guidance of knowledge about physical development, sexual organ, sexuality, and inter-relationships, with skills-developing to keep the young generation conscious about sex and build confidence regarding sexual health. Sex education may include knowledge about adolescence and reproduction, abstinence, methods of contraception. It also provides information on the way of relationships, protection against sexual violence, gender identity, and sexual introduction. 

Sex education should start in childhood and progresses through adulthood. It empowers children with information, ability, and moral values to understand their sexuality, has safe relationships, and lead their own sexual health and future well-being. Sex education should provide in schools, college, community settings, and online school includes all the educational ways which must be regardless of the specific method used that center on only sex.

Why is sex education taboo?

Civilization and urbanization are going with the social development and evolution of society. In recent past two or three decades, we have seen a huge change in social life. We have become a bit open to discuss the essential matter related to sex. Though society is progressing to be open and liberal, sex education is still a taboo for young people. The main reasons for sex education are taboo are listed below:

• Traditional culture and beliefs of our society prohibit conversations about sex with young people. Thereby children fear “the sex talk” from their teachers and parents, even senior people. It is embarrassing and uncomfortable, and it creates a profound aversion to sex education.
• Social norms maintained a shameful and disgusting generation gap between parents and children and the distance between the teacher and students in the form of respect that discourages sex learning.
• Gender inequality women and empowerment play a critical role in backwardness and ignorance about the learning of the subject.
• Parents and older persons are too fearsome and shy to get real about sex. Misconceptions and superstitions about sex and children also responsible for the hurdle of formal sex education and failure of family planning.
• There is no good government policy and advertisement to bring Infront the education-related sex and health.

How sex education taboo ruins future life

The adolescents turn various challenges in different stages of their life. They face a lack of comprehensive sexual education, face malnutrition, physical abuse, sexual violence, and suffer from other sexual diseases. Avoiding sex education, children cannot understand the physiology of puberty, heath hygiene, and proper reproductive system, which affects health, natural growth and ultimately ruins their future well-being.

Transmission of sexual diseases 

Due to the taboo of sex education, people cannot know about sexual diseases such as Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, AIDS, Syphilis, HPV Genital. They also do not know how to transmit the disease. As a result, they are often infected and take part in the transmission of diseases.

Bother physical and mental health

 Adolescence is the period of life when the body becomes sexually mature, but the mind and heart are not ready for being sexually prominent. So, they feel an imbalance between emotion and thinking due to a lack of knowledge. They also feel pressure and involve unnecessary mental and physical activities for instant release, which hampers proper physical and psychological growth. 

Failed to maintain proper hygiene 

Lack of physical health education about the female menstrual cycle and hygiene would be a great catastrophe for physical and mental health.

Children and women victim of sexual abuse 

Children and women are the primary victims of being sexually violated when they are kept in the dark regarding sexuality and its abuse at the hands of criminal that are often friends and relatives.

Unwanted pregnancy and abortion hazard

When people have no knowledge about how to conceive and no concept about protection measures, they face an unwanted pregnancy. The unwanted pregnancy and repeated abortion ruin the health of women for the rest future.

Kill mother and child

Due to the taboo of sexual education, misconceptions and superstitions about the reproductive system are increased day by day. So, the mother cannot get proper treatment in the maritime period, even birth time. As a result, the mother and child often die without treatment.

Affect academic success

Lack of education on sexual health also affect teenager in academic success. The students who do not involve in health risk behaviors receive good results than students who do apply in health risk behaviors. Health complications can both liable to absenteeism and dropout.

The taboo on sex education sometimes keeps students to avoid talking about sex openly. That does not mean they can suppress their emotion on sex. Alternately, they diverted in the wrong way and feel unconfident. On the contrary, comprehensive sex education in schools encourages those to make more right decisions about sex and confident about sexual behavior. But the knowledge must be scientific, accurate, non-biased, age-based, and fulfill as part of formal schooling from which children can be benefited.

In fine, it can be said that sex education stands for preservation, conservation, enlargement, and improvement of the ethical ideas based on modern medical science and free from superstitions and misconceptions. Academic sexuality education released within a secure and quality learning environment access to physical and mental health has a positive and life-long effect on the health of the young generation.