My first formal introduction to the birds and the bees was during our PEHM classes when I was in first year high school. Yes, that could have been a very late introduction by any standard, considering that most of my classmates, boys in particular, already knew the subject quite well ever since Grade 3. Even before sex education became a very controversial topic now, Ateneo had already taught us everything we needed to know about penises and vaginas and what to do with them.
Having said this, I'm expressing my concern over the whole fuss about sex education. My greatest fear is that these advocates will be advocating teaching the wrong things in school, the things we, as a society, must shun away.
I guess what made my sex education in Ateneo complete was the fact that the faculty didn't forget teaching us about values, or sexual values to be more exact. Yes, there was sex, probably God's greatest gift to mankind next to His Son. But our teachers never failed to inculcate in us the immense power of this human act, a great power that, as the cliche goes, must be exercised with even greater responsibility. All in all, I pretty much learned from this education a healthier respect for women and a new understanding of Ecclesiastes 3:1:
Though that education didn't prevent everyone from getting pregnant or impregnating someone out of wedlock, it did impress upon us the seriousness of sex, that it is something sacred and shouldn't be played with.
Nowadays, that idea of sacredness, is lost among today's rhetoric. Instead of teaching young adults about sexual values and moral or social responsibility, most are content about teaching these kids practical responsibility, the stuff about wearing protection and so on and so forth.
It's a sad fact but, amidst all the clamor for sex education, the essential things that should be taught are pretty much left out on the wayside.
Having said this, I'm expressing my concern over the whole fuss about sex education. My greatest fear is that these advocates will be advocating teaching the wrong things in school, the things we, as a society, must shun away.
I guess what made my sex education in Ateneo complete was the fact that the faculty didn't forget teaching us about values, or sexual values to be more exact. Yes, there was sex, probably God's greatest gift to mankind next to His Son. But our teachers never failed to inculcate in us the immense power of this human act, a great power that, as the cliche goes, must be exercised with even greater responsibility. All in all, I pretty much learned from this education a healthier respect for women and a new understanding of Ecclesiastes 3:1:
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.
Though that education didn't prevent everyone from getting pregnant or impregnating someone out of wedlock, it did impress upon us the seriousness of sex, that it is something sacred and shouldn't be played with.
Nowadays, that idea of sacredness, is lost among today's rhetoric. Instead of teaching young adults about sexual values and moral or social responsibility, most are content about teaching these kids practical responsibility, the stuff about wearing protection and so on and so forth.
It's a sad fact but, amidst all the clamor for sex education, the essential things that should be taught are pretty much left out on the wayside.
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