Lets Talk About Sex

With a society that no longer forces individuals and young people to be ashamed of their sexuality and the rise of apps such as Tinder more and more young people are participating in casual sex outside of relationships. And while this has led to a society that is more willing to talk about sex and sexuality our school systems are still years behind society.

No longer is abstinence an accepted form of contraception, nor should it be, yet so many schools across the globe still consider “teaching” abstinence as an appropriate form of sex education, something that for all accounts should be considered negligent. The world is a much different place then it was just a few years ago and the idea that a young adult may still graduate high school with no formal education on topics such as a sexuality and safe sex is terrifying when we live in a world where sex is all around us.

What increases the danger of failing to properly educate students is the availability of porn and sexual content online, with recent studies finding that the majority of children encounter some form of online pornography at just eleven, meaning that many years have passed before they are even taught the basics of sex.

The big issue with this however is the relationship that poor sex education and porn have with each other. While the majority of sex education focus’ on the reproduction system of human beings, i.e. the man ejaculates into the female creating an embryo which eventually leads to a child. Unfortunately, this basic kind of sex education only further increases the false idea that the only reason that you should wear a condom is to prevent pregnancy, not too protect oneself from sexually transmitted infections.

To truly understand the effects of poor sex education however, it’s important to be honest and accept the fact that teens watch porn and understand the kind of content they watch and how this perverts their understanding of what sex is. The issue being porn too often centre’s around the male orgasm, with it being the climax of most male female pornography, which when combined with the kind of sex education that only teaches about reproduction enforces young people, particularly males, that sex is an activity that should be dominated by the man and that the female’s role is simply a physical or biological one.

While many may be quick to blame porn for the way young men grow up, it’s the responsibility of schools to teach young people otherwise, and expecting one of the biggest industries in the world to stop doing what has made so rich is naïve.

However, it’s this view of sex being about male domination that is a potential cause for the rape culture seen across universities, colleges and bars across

the world, an epidemic that is only getting worse.

For more insight into the porn industry and sex education check out Rashida Jone's insightful intreview with Vice here:

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