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Re: Sex Education, Legalisation of Commercial Sex etc.
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IPI members: Please consider these:
As a check on the spread of the AIDS and in connection with
the World Aids Day, it is with an adult gay type ravishment
(and rather, ulterior motive) reported:"Commercial sex is a
reality and cannot be wished away; legalising it,
would help in regulating the activity, ensuring use
of condoms to promote safe sex! Brothel Owners are
given the reputation to feel guilty when good family
young (adolescent) school boys clad in school uniforms
visit the girls; even when the'young' client is tried to
be turned away by some dispassionate prostitute/s by
quoting a higher price, he returns with the requisite
amount (Rs.50/-)! Hormonal and environmental changes,
coupled with the onslaught of the mass media have
brought down the puberty age in boys, to 11 or 12 years.
However, they marry as late as 28 years or thereafter....
Meanwhile they try to satiate their curiosity and appetite
during the intervening productive years, turning gay and
immoral..............Strengthening the sex education pattern
in the schools and colleges is a dire need. Introduction
of sex education from 10th class is advocated. Government
is able to control AIDS to some extent last year. The use
of condoms and removal of stigma attached to AIDS need to be
further supported and strengthened. Sale of condoms by
vending machines is being planned by Government......."
2. What greater harm accrues, from 10th class onwards
if boys, and from, say, 8th class onwards, if girls
(according to the age limits to be scrupulously
reduced and re-set appropriately) are legally allowed
to marry in the prevailing 2k circumstances? On the
other hand, with the kind of education advocated to
be introduced, may not they, have to be allowed the
benefit of enjoying legal (not 'legalised' or
'commercial') safe sex, without exploding the
population and without the risk of contributing to
the nasty dragon 'AIDS'and without the dubious resort
to commercial sex workers. The added benefit would be
of adapting themselves properly to their marriage
partner by the time they cross their adolesence. The
built in advantage, then, would be either the boy or
the girl may have continuous influence over the
other as to the type of educational courses, service,
business or profession he / she may like to prosecute
according to their mutual choice unlike their present
day approaches made to numerous country-wide and even
global computerised matrimonial match making centres
where the boys/the girls after crossing their adoles-
cence spend enormous time & energies & mental tension
unendingly in search in order to match their multiple
requirements/aspirations of mutual educational quali-
fications, height, complexion, antecedents, career,
geographical location/standing, aesthetic feelings
and thoughts, extent of sight, food habits, other
whims and fancies regarding smoking/alcoholism, etc.
etc. with little or no scope for parental inter-
vention? Parents/elders/well wishers also would then
be able to play their part better, guiding the boys
/girls more effectively, right from the early stages
of alliances. The scope for mal-adjustments between
the couple would then be reduced.
3. Commercial Sex may then, perhaps, be got, reduced to
the minimum, instead of being, with state involvement,
menacingly allowed to spread, attempting in the least,
at character-building. It is anomalous that one still
needs conduct and character certificates for admission
to educational institutions and for career making!
4. Then, the government and non-government organs need to
popularise use of condoms and other family planning
methods conveniently among married couple much, instead
of, commercial sex workers, in their red light areas in
villages, towns, cities and highways, leading to various
crimes, futile police cases and criminal court inter-
ventions, a minuscule proportion of which only gets
revealed in the press, etc.
4. What actually transpired as social consequence after the
government deliberately enhanced the marriageable age for
boys and girls as the extant 21 and 18 years, needs a
critical review. Were they made to attain puberty only
at 21 and 18? King Kanute would have done it! Were there
not real hormonal and environmental changes reducing the
puberty age levels, contrary to the expectations of legis-
lators and parliamentarians? Instead of various doctors,
health and hygiene specialists, scientists, sociologists,
judiciary, politicians, cultural organisations, literature
pandits, radio, T.V. & cinema, dwelling on methods and
devising ways and means of enhancing the puberty age levels
shall we drive the youngeters, (of course)supplying them
the state sponsored condoms,to visit commercial sex workers
tabooed hitherto, without giving the youngsters early the
needed opportunity of the age old good institution called
"marriage". Why lament and cast crocodile tears over AIDS,
CRIME, RAIDS AND ENCOUNTERS, etc., without honest thinking
and attempts at morality building? Safe sex is to be best
encouraged by Marriage, not by Prostitution. Does the
intended sex education from 10th class, enhance the puberty
age of pupils to 21 years and 18 years?
4. A national debate is said to be in the offing. Let
IPI members, however, think over and express their calculated
views from now on.
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