Sex Education In Malaysia

From my personal point of view, I strongly think that sex education should be taught in Malaysia and prompt actions should be taken by the authorities in-charge to ensure that the implementation of sex education in the school curriculum can be done as soon as possible. Firstly, sex education is vital in a way that it provides children with an early exposure as to what sex really means. To date, many adults especially parents are still in denial to educate their children on the topic regarding sex. This is probably due to the fact that we live in a country where the people are rather conservative and a vast majority of them behold the kind of thinking that someday when the time’s right, the children will then acquire that knowledge by themselves. People should generally beware that abstinence is no longer the best resort to turn to these days. Children need to get to know about these facts and it’s only a matter of soon or later that they learn about them so why not make them learn it from an early age, in a proper way so that they can acquire the right information regarding the topic and not those information which are deviated from the truth.

Moreover, by having sex education in schools nationwide, students will be taught on the dire consequences of having premarital sex. It is found that most of the teenage girls who are involved in premarital sex claim that they are not well-aware of its consequences and that they just have sex for the sheer pleasure of fun and excitement. Therefore if these teenagers are being informed about the impacts of sex before marriage, there is a greater possibility that they will think twice before they get themselves involved in this act and thus the role of sex education is seen to play an important role in reducing the rate of social-ills in the country. In addition, with the advancement and sophistication of today’s technology, any information can easily be attained from the web just with a mouse-click. If sex education is not edified in schools, there are basically no formal means of which students can get hold of information concerning sex. Teenagers will then search for these from the web out of curiosity and there is a great likelihood that they might obtain the wrong information instead.

To sum up, sex education should be implemented as a part of the curriculum in Malaysia as it is capable of contributing many benefits to the Malaysian society, be it short-term or long-term.