Sex Education In Malaysia

In 2005, a recommended syllabus on sex education was sent to the cabinet for approval. I absolutely agree that sex education should be implemented as a way to educate the youth to educate themselves and their next of kin about sex and to prevent sex crimes. Sex education could give the youth an early exposure to sex information .This early exposure is so important to prevent child sexual abuse and misunderstanding towards sex. Besides, sex education helps in preventing STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) such as HIV and AIDS. Citizens are encouraged to have safe sex and are taught the way of having safe sex through sex education. Apart from that, adverse impacts of having sex such as abortion, miscarriage, and pregnancy among teenagers could be prevented through sex education. Teenagers would be encouraged not to have premarital sex and knowledge on how to take care of pregnant and baby are taught. Opponents of sex education would argue that sex education should be done by parents instead of through schooling as children would feel more comfortable to learn sex knowledge from their parents. Having to say that, however, not all parents are well-equipped with right sex information and not all of them are well-trained to teach about sex knowledge compared to the professional educators. What parents taught might contain preference and misleading information. Furthermore, some children are orphans or grown up in single-parent families. Opponents also support their stand by saying that implementation of sex education is a redundancies as there are existing knowledge about sex in the science and biology subjects. However, sex education would not only educate people scientifically like biology and science educations do but ethnically. Teenagers could learn the true purpose and responsibility of having sex through sex education. To sum up, sex education should be implemented in order to educate the youth about sex morally and scientifically.