Sex education, now a days, is one of the most important and highly controversial topic among educationists and policymakers. Arguments are going on everywhere about various aspects of sex education and successful implementation of the same in a school program. Everybody possess an identical view about the importance of it, the difference lies only about the application process. The basic challenges lies into two areas - i) Develop a meaningful curriculum and ii) Presenting the same in front of a batch of school students.
Sex, as we all know, is one of the basic physical activities like hunger or sleep. But ideology of fulfillment of this activity demands multidimensional aspects varies from personal belief, moral or ethics to a subjective social tradition, which, most of the time turns into a taboo. Every, well, almost every external factors like social, cultural, economic and internal factors like physical, psychological, genetic etc. has more or less effect over the performance of human sexual ideology. This kind of huge dimension of interrelated variables explain the complexity and dynamic nature of this topic. To discuss the discourse over the relationship, one can emphasize over the association of these factors with ideology of sexual performance and how these factors affect the act. Effective argument over these factors could bring up some amiable solutions which could help to find out some solution of those challenges.
Effect of External Factors
Social Factor: Society, as a whole is a dominant factor in building the ideology of sex and its related issues. As an example, European countries and Asian countries have a prominent difference related to their family bonding and thus create significant difference about their concept of sexuality. Not only that, it has been observed that the structural and qualitative difference among society create difference among the people. It is obvious that the qualitative functions stand according to some standard parameters like education, per capita income etc.
Cultural Factor: Culture of an individual has some cumulative effect over the culture of the society he belongs. As a matter of fact, education is one of the basic components which stimulate the culture of an individual. And so, that create the conceptual difference about the ideology of sexuality.
Economic Factor: Position of Economic indicator of an individual and a society somewhat controls the interpersonal and inter societal sex behavior. Health related issue, Crime and Sexual harassment and few more related issues are well connected over the economic factors.
Apart from these, there are many more factors like environment etc. which does have some significant effect.
Effect of Internal Factors
Physical Factor: Sexual activity is directly related with physical condition of a person. Thus, it has a serious scope of misconception among an individual. So, it is very much important to understand how the physical condition of an individual create effect on sexual behavior.
Psychological Factor: Psychology is the most dominant factor over any sexual activity among human being. This is the factor, which actually create difference between a human and other animal. Moreover, all the external factors shape the psychology of an individual. So, needless to say that shaping psychology of a person regarding sexual activity and its impact is the most important challenge among all.
Shaping Challenges
As we have seen that all these internal and external factors, all are interlinked within a network, extensive care need to be taken in time of creating a curriculum. All these factors need to be presented with appropriate importance and influence, which can create a sharp and focused impression over the students. Appropriate care also need to be taken in terms of standard of a student. It is very much advisable to start sex education among the higher class students who does have a primary idea about society, its history, culture and all other related things. About presentation of the topic, a teacher should and must be enough qualified and skilled to present such a controversial subject in class. She or he should have adequate control over the class and vast knowledge to cover every aspect of discussion. Moreover, it is very much important to look after that, a student should gain some insight about the topic and not any kind of distortion. Though it is a question of extensive trial, there should have a process of regular evaluation for both teacher-student and curriculum end. The evaluation process should be bias free from every end and the result needs to be interpreted properly. Regular practice of this trial and error method will help to shape the whole process in a more meaningful way.
Sex education has its internal power to create an interlink among different subjects taught in class. Confident practice of this curriculum can actually create a holistic approach towards development of a nation. That doubtlessly proves the importance of Sex Education in Schools.