Many of the Sexual health education in an important component of human education while talking about sexual health and sex educations misconceptions occur and people get wrong information from unreliable sources.

Some of these sources are peer group, friends, mass media and even parents. At times these sources themselves are ignorant and have wrong knowledge on sex. Other sources have vested interests.

This is true of the mass media which knows that sex in its glamourised and over blown from, sells. Therefore, an image of sex and activities associated with it (dating, friendship, live-in relationship and marriage) are created so as to attract viewers and readers.

One would therefore, come across a large number of T.V. serials, operas, discussions on the merits and demerits of these issues. Many media observes point out that other relevant issues are neglected.

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It is also to be accepted that modern societies have some characteristics which allow the media to manipulate the issues related to sex. Some of these factors are: the delayed marriage of man and woman in modern societies; urbanisation, migration for the purpose of education and employment; increasing percentage of woman in employment sector etc.

There has been also a change in the value system of modern societies. The control of collectives (family, society) over the individual is lessening and the person is given autonomy and freedom.

People are not expected to interfere in an individual’s private life unless he or she is given permission by that person.

The Indian society is also not immune from the changes happening in the western societies. During the 1960s western societies experienced a radical change in popular attitude towards sex and some observers have been called it a revolution. The human body was increasingly being seen as pleasure producing device rather than a sacred object (mainly by religious thinkers).

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In the Society

Another point of view is of the society, the whole of which needs to examine itself. Society should continue to question itself as to what kind 0f young, women and men it should like to form for tomorrow.

It should also ask itself as to what sort of relationship between sexuality and person and society, it would like to see; whether the sexuality is only legitimate or it is to be tolerated as a simple private function of without its rightful orientation.

In the School

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Sex education does not exclude the positive intervention of schools or other educational associations. But it re-indicates strongly the Un-substitutable or of the parents and of the family atmosphere as the first and foremost factor.

Realising that children and youth are so badly exposed to misrepresentation of sex that they are often the most gullible victims of sex abuse, public authorities in some countries believe that they have solved the problem by favouring sex education in School. But often, such education is reduced to mere sanitary information. The human family perspective is kept outside sex and sex is regarded as something purely private and personal.

In the Family

Definitely such a “revolution” has separated sex from monitoring and love from family. It has also separated sex from life of unitary dimension and from within the conjugal act of procreation, thus providing a background in support of abortions, contraception and promiscuity.

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This, so called “revolution”, has had political implications as well it has become now an ideology which has made sex a weapon to break

all the ties of traditions. It rampages all parent-child relationships, family institutions and social fabric and establishes a most exasperating individualism.

The media of social communication, pornography, interest and erotic telephones have given young people such emotional appeal that they consider themselves as objects and not even as subjects of the alienating mechanisms.

4. In Individual Persons

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Sexuality is innate in the body and in all dimensions of the person as a whole. It involves the total development of his/her person in his/ her physical and spiritual life which will be reflected in his/her social relation. In other words, sexuality is inscribed in the person in his/her growth, in his/her complementary relation, of one sex towards the other and his/her openness in giving up of self for the other.