The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry of India wants to ban the use of words ‘sex’ or ‘sexual’ from policies regarding sex education in schools as reported by The Telegraph. Along with the removal of these words, the section also apparently needs to be condensed to just one sentence.

With the removal of phrases like ‘sexual health needs’, the only reference regarding sex education in the policy is confined to the line, “The Adolescent Education Programme and National Population Education Programme need to be extended to all schools as early as possible."

But this absurd change is completely not required! Not mentioning the word sex will not make it stop existing. It will definitely not help children if they are shielded from such words as sex and sex education is an important topic that needs to be taught, more so in India where even the mention of the word sex in general is considered unacceptable.

The whole country needs to be a little mature about this topic and there needs to be a proper conversation about it. It’s high time for some progress in the controversial subject instead of going backwards like these policies are suggesting. Changing and barring words from educational texts is just not the way to go. How long will it take for people to realize that!

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