Tuesday, November 17, 2009

My World of the Unknown #7

Should sex be discussed more, or less, openly than it is now?
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18 comments:

  1. xiao-liNovember 17, 2009 at 9:33 PM

    In my opinion, I think sex education is very important and we should talk more about that; especially discuss more with the young people. Also, sex education aims to reduce the risks of potentially negative outcomes from sexual behaviors and unplanned pregnancies. I know many young people in China, they got pregnant in a very young age; they didn’t know most information about that or they were shy to ask their parents any questions; so they end up with pregnancies. Being younger mother is hard for them to take care of the child and the whole family. They need to give up their college dream, make more money or have more time hang out with their friends.

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  2. J. KongNovember 17, 2009 at 10:28 PM

    Xiao-li eloquently puts it in the right place, mentioning reduced risks of detrimental outcomes of sexual behavior and unplanned pregnancies. I too believe that sex education should be taught in schools targeting pre-teens and adolescents to bolster awareness and prevent unsafe sex. In Cambodia, sex is often a taboo subject and at times, mistakes happen - AIDS, STDs, and the like. In general, I believe it is okay to discuss about sex.

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  3. chaperonesNovember 18, 2009 at 6:03 PM

    Yes, sex should be discussed more openly in a positive way in schools and at home. Young kids are exposed to negative sex through advertising, television shows, internet, games, and peers. Because of the early exposure, kids are more likely to have sex at early age. Having sex at young age with out taking responsibility may cause emotional and health problems that affect young kids in the years to come. For this reason, teachers and parents should educate kids about safe sex starting at young age. The more people are educated about safe sex the less likely they will engage in unsafe sex.

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  4. Benson O.oNovember 18, 2009 at 9:40 PM

    Of course, sex education is very important for the young generation. Because the kids will get lots of bad influent from the medias. It's very important for them to know how to protect themselves from the STD and unexpected pregnancy. More talk means less risk, don't talk doesn't means it won't happen. So we have to face the problems bravely and trying to solve them instead of being shy. So sex education is not only useful but also a must.

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  5. karen-zhongNovember 18, 2009 at 9:53 PM

    I think sex should be talked more and openly. Even though young people were taught by sexual education more than before, no matter at home or at school, it still not enough, and it can do it more for the young people I think. Now, as the technology become developing, young people is very easy to get the sexual information, such as video, picture, and sounds. And they are also attracted easily by advertising, Internet, and adult games, etc; however, because they are lack of knowledge of sexual education, they may follow what they saw and heard, and some of them may get a negative effect for their rest of life, like ectopic pregnancy, AIDS… Although you talk less about sex for the young kids, they still know what it is. Because you sensitively talk less for them, they will want to try to do it more, for they consider it is a secret, they want to uncover it. So, in order to prevent the young people get a bad result from their sex, we’d better to communicate with them more through an open mind, and discuss sex in a positive way; tell them how to control sex under safety. We don’t have to talk to them about sex in a serious attitude; we can just discuss sex in an easy way that the young people can accept more.

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  6. AnonymousNovember 19, 2009 at 12:12 AM

    I agree that sex education is essential, but it doesn't mean openly discuss more and more. Sex discussion should be taught or guided by teachers, professors, doctors, and even parents. Young people can get more and more sexual information from several pathes, and it is easy to have a bad influence on them if they lack of knowledge to tell good or bad. So, if parents and teachers have an open mind to talk with young people in a positive way, young people can be guided into a good way about sex. It is beneficial for young people's mental and physical health. If it lacks of guide and teaching and openly discuss, it would be easy for young people desire to try what the feelings they will have during the sex. This is a negative effects on young people. As a result, with the guide and teaching is important to discuss sex openly more efficiently.

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  7. DeweiNovember 19, 2009 at 1:11 AM

    I think sex education should talk more and openly. Along with the advancement of society, human has greater sexual openness attitude. Because of that, pregnancy, some sexual diseases, and sexual crime are form fourthly. An accurate sex education could avoid that awkward complexion. Sex education could help people understanding the sexual knowledge in physiology, psychology, and sensation along with our age rising. In addition, it could eliminate the badness emotions such as anxiety and dread during the sexual development and sexual actions. Also, it provides exactly about both sex relationship and correlative moral and law. Those factors will help people better to protect themselves, avoid the diseases, and reduce the sexual crime.

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  8. prettyleungNovember 19, 2009 at 3:50 AM

    In my own opinion, sex education is a very important topics in nowadays society. Adolescents always refuse to learn from it directly than they will soon confuse how to have sex safely. Moreover, everyone should also learn how to protect themselves from sexually harrast.This is a very important topics to learn how to prevant of pregnacy too. Therefore I think sex education should talk more.

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  9. Darius ChanNovember 19, 2009 at 11:39 AM

    I think sex should be discussed more and openly because now we have many single mother who are young. Why there are lots of single mother? It is because they might not have the knowledge of sex and other issues. I have a friend who is a girl and around 17. One day, she told me she thought she might have a baby. After that, she went to the doctor and the doctor said, "Yes, you have and around 3 months already." She was really shocked and she had no idea what she was going to do. After that, my friends and I found some information in the internet. We found that abortion might be a better way for her because she was still young. However, we also found that after the abortion, there were many side effects from this surgical. Therefore, we told her if you had the abortion, you might have those of the side effects. What she said? She said, "I don't care, I only don't want the baby and tell where is it?" Well, she had her own choice, but I couldn't see that she would regret. I may say sometimes having a baby is a gift, but sometimes it may not. However, the baby has its own choice of living, and it's not up to you. If we discuss more about sex and then it may not happen or the percentage will be lower. Some of the youth, they are really curious and uncontrollable. Therefore, they may have sex to satisfy their needs. On the other hand, they ignore the dangerous and result. What is the end? They may find help from both families. However, right now, some of the youths are not in a good relationship with their family, so what will they do? Like my friend, they will find their friends for help. It looks really complicated, but if we can avoid it, and then it is not a problem anymore.

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  10. dtwelve89November 19, 2009 at 9:46 PM

    I think the the topic of sexuality being discussed at the level it is now is fine. I definitely do not see sex being as a subject which is avoided and I do not see it being constantly brought up to a point of being inappropriate. People who want to discuss more about sex are free to do so and for those who wish to avoid the subject may also do as they please.

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  11. Joey phanNovember 19, 2009 at 10:42 PM

    In my opinion, the topic of sexuality should discuss more openly to young people to help them avoid mistakes in their future. in many traditional countries, sex is a very sensitive subject and people usually do want to talk more it. as the result, many teenagers ended up with unplanned pregnancies or sexual diseases which can affected their whole lives. if schools teach sex education more openly,then teens can know how to make the right decisions and prevents unwanted things to happened.

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  12. AllenNovember 19, 2009 at 11:09 PM

    In today time Sex is discuss more openly in this generation that lives today. Most people have problems with their sex lives and they need help because it one of the main reason the martial life goes wrong and it a problem. that why people ask for counsel from their friends and specialist that work in that field and research say it a factor in the people relationship and it helps if the couple talk about it.

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  13. kalNovember 20, 2009 at 3:56 PM

    Should sex be discussed more or less? Well it depends on where and how this discussion is taking place. Sex education is always useful and important because it guides young people from making wrong decisions. I feel like sex education is given in schools at a good time in students’ lives. What we really need, is for parents to be able to talk about sex more openly and the media to talk about it less. Most parents think that by talking about it openly that they might make their children think about something they previously hadn’t thought about. What parents don’t realize is that when their children go to school, their friends talk about sex and when they watch TV everything is about sex. Therefore I think parents should do some research on when the right time to talk to their children is and not hesitate when that time arrives.
    What we could all use less of is the discussion of sex on the media. The term “sex sells” has become a very common saying. The box office ratings of series, shows and movies have all become based on sex appeal or on how hot the main start is. Even commercials are competing using the same strategy. This leads young people into having a different perspective from what they had previously had and known.

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  14. MingTaoNovember 20, 2009 at 4:07 PM

    I think the discussion of sex in United States today is very open right now. In other country, sex might be a sensitive topic to be discuss, espcially in some religious country. In China, people won't talk about sex as openly as in United States, and also, parents hardly discuss sex with their children, even though shcool seems to encourage them do that . In United States, people talke about sex more openly, and I heard that parents will disscuss sex with their children. I think no need to disscuss sex more openly than now, since it's good enough for young people to learn the needed knowlege about sex.

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  15. Dev[PM]November 20, 2009 at 5:52 PM

    Although sex education is certainly important, I personally believe it has contaminated the lives of many youths recently. The media’s propensity toward sex has been leveraged to the degree that the influence of sex is approaching adolescents who are not mature enough to explore the topic. Unfortunately, the media’s desire to push sex is for the most obvious reason – to reap in the profits that they collect from advertising. It has gone to the point that marketing is gradually predisposing children to sexual content through the use of subliminal messages or blatant commercials. I understand that people should be more open, but for matters such as sex, I honestly think we have taken this idea too far. Statistics have shown that the number of teens who do not practice safe sex are steadily growing, increasing the likelihood of contracting venereal diseases. Increasing sexual awareness is absolutely in the right direction, but the deceptive use of subliminal messages to target children to benefit corporations is absolutely wrong.

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  16. Rebecca^0^November 20, 2009 at 9:31 PM

    I think sex should talk about more. In China, sex is considered as a bad thing. It’s not allowed people talked about sex in the public. Also, in some poor city in China, the young people they don’t have the class about the sex. For them, sex is liked the uncanny thing in the world. Because of curiosity, because of the elders could not allow to know about it; they may know that from the Internet or some movies shows. However, these ways may bring the negative information for them.
    On the other hand, if sex could be talk more or openly, more and more people would more about that. I believe some illness would become less because people would know more about information to protect them.

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  17. Anya liuNovember 23, 2009 at 11:14 AM

    I agree with the opinion with all people above. Sex should be educated, discuss, and openly just like a common thing for human action. We saw a lot of tragedy happen in different country because people didn't have the open and health attitude to face sex. in another way, there will became bad if it discussed too much to openly. I saw a news that about a boy who is just 9 years old, he tried to rape a young woman on the street on night in China. the reason it happen because the boy watch too much sex movie online. so i thing we have to educated kids how to face the sex in right way

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  18. VedderDecember 2, 2009 at 12:06 PM

    I think sex is already good the way it is. We don't need to talk about it anymore. We can turn on the television, and guaranteed there is one channel that involves sex. Kids nowadays don't need the education about sex that some kids needed a few years ago. Sex is a open topic where everybody just goes whatever it's sex. There might be a few people that still need to talk about it, but a big majority of people already know and probably experienced it.

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