Sex education in school has once again garnered interest in India. We all saw how sometime back, National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) had decided to lift the talk ban on the taboo that sex is to Indians. But guess what, it was just a matter of time when the issue would be raised once again. Yesterday, NCERT on the advice of National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) decided to revise the sex education syllabus with quick effect. Apparently, some graphical representations of the human physiology and anatomy were found objectionable by seven states across India. The focus shall now be on abstinence from sex and on safe sex.

And we thought India had outgrown the stone-age mindset towards sex. Talking they are about sex but still there are just too many ifs and buts. Why call off the diagrams of the human physiology? C’mon we are talking about biology in terms of reproduction and not showing pics of the Kama sutra showing the various positions. The entire approach of NCERT is absolutely negative so how can it get positive results. On top of this, sex education classes will be held separately for boys and girls where male teachers will lecture the former while female teachers take care of the latter. So now will we not have any female biology teachers in an all boy’s school and vice versa! Almost a decade ago my class 9th teacher in a CBSE school asked us to read the chapter on HUMAN REPRODUCTION with graphical diagrams of the human anatomy on our own. Do you really think we have moved ahead from there? I have strong doubts.
Via NewsTrackIndia