STRAIGHTFORWARD Safe sex, NO Regrets

“Sex” As i said this word to my younger brother, he laughed right away. Even in the Eulogio Rodriguez Junior High School, sometimes students are laughing every time they discuss sexual matters and the virginity of a woman.

Are we lacking information about controversial topics that leads on mocking someone’s body and sniggering when they hear the word sex?

A survey conducted by a group of learners in ERJHS as part of their mini research, implies that 92.52 percent of the grade 10 learners in school wants to have a Sex Education program in ERJHS to spread knowledge on the advantage of having safe sex and ways to regulate our libido at a very young age.

As stated by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in its 2022 National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS), teenage pregnancies among Filipino women 15 to 19 years old are still a problem and are continuously happening and lead them to poverty.

For many reasons, we have to spread awareness about sex and the disadvantages of unsafe sex. Also the importance of having Sex Education to reduce the number of rape victims.

According the Philippine National Police (PNP) 1.6 percent of rape victims are children. And obviously they don’t have enough knowledge about what’s doing to them whenever someone tries to touch their private part.

Additionally, Sex Education would help us to magnify and multiply the information that takes an important role in a society, educating learners that sex isn’t a disgusting thing. Also to teach both girls and boys what are the substitutes for sex, how we can lower our libido and what are the things we can do other than sex.

“It hurts, i lost almost everything, i even stopped attending schools.” A grade 10 student from Sapphire who has experienced being a teenage mom. It’s a choice to stop in our study to fulfill the duty as a mom as what she did. She has no choice but to take responsibility and risk everything she has at the moment for her baby.

The on-going complication in the young one’s lives poses an ever growing threat to life. The lack of knowledge about Sex Education really puts some people in a situation that they are not mentally and financially prepared for.

These people keep insulting women for not reaching their so-called standard about virginity, and those who lack knowledge about Teenage Pregnancy. Sex Education will change today’s society by providing information that serves beyond our own. It will also help us to understand sex and to be aware of the consequences of having sexual intercourse.