Sexual education

The world is full of discrimination, people will judge you because of the way you dress, the way you walk, the way you talk, the way you think in fact the presence if difference and absence of tolerance are the main triggers of this social problem that affect an elevated number of persons in different magnitude. Sex is considered a taboo in most cultures now in the 21^st century is when we are first experiencing the first symptoms of social evolution and acceptance. Most people consider sex as something intimate, something special, sacred pure that you should not be willing to talk with nobody. There is something that most people forgot. What about the biological need for sex? What about the part that humans are animals and animals are guided by natural selection? What about the principal dogma of all animals that live to reproduce? These are the three basic questions that most people forgot to ask themselves when they started pointing fingers at the act of sex. The act of sex has two sides, the biological and the cultural one that will vary depending on where you are and how you were raised and it is very important no to aisle them and instead treat them as a whole.

Sex should not be left as something obscure, as something mysterious, as something that you should not talk about, maybe and just maybe that is one of the main reasons because we have so many STD’s (Sexually Transmitted Diseases). The starting point would the fact of poor education, if something is culturally prohibited there would be lack of education, and that would lead to a larger spread of them. This year we have seen an increment of over a 30% of STD’s including HIV, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea and Syphilis and we should ask ourselves: Why is this happening?. The theory of many is precisely the fact that most people do not want to talk about sex, which leads to parents ignoring the fact that most of the kids now a day’s start they sexually active life’s at about 16 years old and who’s going to teach those kids about STD’s and protection?

A testimony of someone who has been living with one of this condition is essential when analyzing the possible social and cultural triggers of the continuous increment of these diseases. “My name is Sandra (fictitious name) I got HIV when I was 16 from who was my current boyfriend”. She told us her story and of lack of sexual education was definitely a factor that could have diminished her probability of getting infected. She started having sex when she was really young and ignorant, neither his mom nor her school teachers ever explained to her what the consequences of having sex were and the prevention that she could have had. There are many cases like Sandra’s that could have been avoided if sexual education were provided during early stages of sexual maturation so it is important that people start being more open minded and the statistics of STD’s incidence could be lowered.