20Apr 2012

Sex Education in the Philippines

April 20, 2012- I first wrote about sex education in the Philippines in July 21, 2006. This blog post shows how interested online readers are on sex education. Read the comments

News Update (March 11, 2008)- Bishop, prolife group to challenge QC sex education ordinance in Supreme Court

What is happening to our sex education?

Phillipine Catholic Bishops Oppose Sex-Ed in Schools, Say it Should be Left to Parents

Philippines Scraps Sex Education in Schools After Catholic Opposition

Is this a power struggle between the Catholic Church and our government? I will not talk about the political aspect of sex education in our country . Let’s look at this statement from Dr. Angelita Aguirre, head of Human Life International. (CBCP: Scrap sex lessons)

“The module should be scrapped. It does not have the emotional, psychological and spiritual dimensions of human sexuality. This is very important,”

“The code of morality is high. We are not pagans. We would like to pressure everybody indulging in a conjugal act to get married first,” she said.

Aguirre pointed out that the modules did not mention that a person had to get married before having sex.

As a concerned parent of two girls, I took an active role in teaching the basics of sex education. The high school that my daughter attended did not include sex education in their curriculum.Much as I want my 2 girls to get married first before having sex, this kind of sex education strategy (get married before having sex) does not make sense to teens these days. First of all, some Catholic schools instill fear of committing sin even on sexual feelings. Why can’t they explain about raging hormones instead of judging their feelings? It’s a confusing time for teenagers. Most often, these high school girls turn to their girl classmates for relationships. How many girl-girl relationships are occuring in all girl schools? Often, the school turns a blind eye because these relationships won’t induce pregnancy. Secondly, our teens are exposed to sexual images in magazines, TV, movies and the internet.

The issue of morality can be taught separately from sex education. Morality is taught in the Christian Living Education or its equivalent like Values Education.

God has a strong view of any kind of immorality, so we should try to err on the side of purity. For example, the apostle Paul said that the Church will be presented to Christ as a pure virgin bride:

“I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him.” (2 Corinthians 11:2)

My mother discussed sex openly with me when I was 15 years old. I knew the morality issue already and formed my own beliefs at that age. Mom didn’t have to go through the graphic details but what struck me was the responsibility of the sexual act. In the same manner, I discussed sex education with the 2 girls as “are you ready to have children?”

When they blurted “NO WAY“, I added “Then you should abstain until you are ready“. My own definition of “readiness” is when one is married but I didn’t want to explicitly state that fact yet.

I continued “Don’t even believe your boyfriend when he says he has protection“.

They giggled. I gave a clear example of a family friend who got pregnant at the age of 18 because she thought she wouldn’t get pregnant at that age. Besides it was her first time.

Then I continued “just one tiny drop contains millions of sperm to impregnate you. It takes only 1 sperm cell, mind you!”

Then I proceeded to explain how the second daughter and Luijoe were conceived …and…

“ewww. I dont want to listen now”

I explained condoms, birth control etc are not fool proof methods of birth control.

We need to teach them responsible parenthood in consonance with the sex education. We don’t need to teach everything but at least give them the basic facts. Along the way, the children can do some more research on their own.

Phillipine Catholic Bishops Oppose Sex-Ed in Schools, Say it Should be Left to Parents is true if all parents know how to discuss sex with their children. We can’t assume parents know how to discuss sex openly. Some might be uneducated to understand the anatomy of reproduction and thus fail to grasp natural birth control methods.

The schools together with the parents can bridge the gap of sex education.

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major problems now

what the heck?
major problems now

why dont you people understand that the ways of showing love are giving a kiss or a hug. not having sex. god said to be fruitful and multiply well where is your chld ms. of course god never said that we can just have sex to love each other of course not. there is something wrong with you people that see it differently.
gem

have you finised your term paper?
Michelle M.

we have a panel discussion and im on the Con side, so im here to defend the Con side..yes there is what we call abstinence regarding education, but can you really prevent our hormones? it BIOLOGICAL! with or without sex education we still have these urges specially now that porn is readily and easily accessible..so you just can’t tell them the consequence because some would still try it anyway because now, they are taught of its preventions..and if you would think about it, i feel sorry for those who would be exposed to this sex education when in the first place they have no idea of sex at all..they would just get confuse what on earth is the teachers teaching…

To get straight to my point, sex education is not the key..abstinence may help but if not taught properly may lead to bias opinion of the mentors. this is really a sensitive topic and i think that teaching values is more importantly than teaching this kind of things…we human are easily get temptated, its very idealistic to think that ones you feed them with information they can easily fight those temptations..i suggest you think that most do sex for pleasure and some dont think about the consequence anymore, but if you have values, if you are convince that THIS is not what you want, you dont want to degrade yourself and you want to be kept pure until marriage, and that kind of education can’t also be taught in school..those values is best taught by family and church members on how they set an example to us..I’m a Christian, and my values kept me pure, i haven’t had any sex education in school..and can’t address to the main problem of premarital sex
Michelle M.

God bless you all!
Cecile

To have sex education in school will not harm the teenagers. But still, it depends how these people will think and decide what will be their choices. Honesty, I GOT MARRIED FIRST BEFORE I GAVE UP MY VIRGINITY TO MY HUSBAND. And I’m proud of it. All people have freewill.
Cecile

To have sex education in school is okay, as long as they teach how to protect themselves against STD, HIV or any deseases and preventing pregnancy or whatsoever….But still, let them to have freewill, it means let them choose. Make them aware about the consequences of sex. If you ask me? It’s better to get married first before sex. I got married at the age of 23 and my husband is 24 years old.

And I telling you that ” I GOT MARRIED FIRST BEFORE I GAVE UP MY VIRGINITY TO MY HUSBAND”

Yes! my husband is my FIRST MAN and I’m proud that I did that.

I’am filipino citizen but 50% chinese, 25% japanese, 1/8 filipino, 1/8 spanish. My husband is american. Like what I said: I chose what will be my path especially how to handle your life. I don’t think sex education will harm the teenagers. It depends how they think and decide of what will be their choices.
caroline

i totally agree with what you said and i am now in a debate about sex education and i am looking for some reasons why it should be taught in school.
taylor

love you
http://www.happyinchina.com Chinese girl

Aha
wonderful posting
We have almost no sex education in our school
My husband is my first man too ^-^

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I had sex-education at school and until it is still very helpful. I know about AIDS or HIV (the virus in question), STD (sexual transmitted desesses, or so) like Hipatites B, what the clitoris is for, how menstration is working and that, well, there is NO God who is putting a baby inside the woman’s stomage…

Sperms from the man and egg cells from woman got “melted” together and only one sperm cell can make it.

And why you should use *real* HQ condoms and not the catholic condoms because they have a big hole at the end… hahaha…

Okay, I’m not asian, I’m europe or German so our both cultures are very different and so the same to sex-education at school. You should really have it at school! Why is it so “bad” to know about HIV and all the other deadfully viruses which can be transfered by sexual intercourse?

Better know your body to protect yourself against such viruses. God cannot protect you, when your husband or wife is HIV-positive! Only, and REALLY only, a condome can help.
BUTA

well. me too, i’m a 4th year hs student and this is our topic in our term paper. I really want to limit my topic because SED comprises alot of topics. can you help me find a better aim or objective why i must choose this topic?
http://sadfasdf cris

just leave it to parents!!!…
http://sadfasdf cris

just leave it to parents!!!… parents know best… if they failed to educate well their children, then the blame is still in them… duh!!!
shigz

uhmm.. if you dont mind…I just wanna as how you defended your stand on you debate.. I mean how did you oppose sex education? I hope you could help me, coz we’re also having a debate on this topic and i find it hard looking for facts that could support the opposition side…
rianne

I agree for sex education BUT NOT in elementary or primary school. Sex is a very sensitive topic that should be explained with teens like high school students because surely they will understand it already. If you will have sex education in Primary school they might still not understand what the teachers are trying to say and they might take it in a wrong way. In my own opinion we should leave the explanation to the parents atleast for those children or students in primary age.
ana

me too…
i also want to know on how you defended your stand on your debate or how did you oppose sex education? plsss..I hope you could help me too, coz we’re also having a debate on this topic and i find it hard looking for facts that could support the opposition side…plsss….
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Colina,Jade

Hi,

Well, like you I am also doing a thesis on sex education, I want to know what is your aim in your study in one way or another we could change ideas. I hope to get in touch. thank’s
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NaomiS

yes the sex education system sucks, i attended a government school from grades prep-6 and we were taught about the menstrual cycle in grade 5 and that “a man puts his penis inside a women when they love each other” in grade 6 i now attend a catholic secondary school (grade 7-12) and they taught us about the STI’s and to abstain from sex (surprise surprise..) but it was in the lowest detail as possible. i learnt most of the information i know, from my very open mother, from the internet, and from reading many books while i was younger. i often find its me explaining things to my friends to the best i can because no one feels they can teach them. i am also a teenage mum, so i know quite a bit from going along the pregnancy, it wasnt wanted but i couldnt stand the emotional pain of thinking about destroying or giving it away so i kept it. when schools explain about pregnancy they say nothing about birthing or the things that go in your head, confusing alot of people thinking that it will be easy and if its too hard its just so easy to get an abortion. the sex education i received made it sound like it was extremely hard for the sperm, they said there was millions of sperm, but covered that up with “most get killed on the way to the egg, and only ever are a few capable of getting near it”
todays world is nothing but sex, everything advertised is with something that can be put to as sexual (the most common example being the selling of some new car – ‘hot’ girls in g-strings and bras smothering themselves all over the front of it) so instead of teaching abstinence, we need to teach the kids on how to best protect themselves, and to have all their options open to them and to make sure they have the best knowledge available. sure i regret not waiting, but i feel it would have been better if i knew the details of the consequences better. kids need details!
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The big problem with Sex Education, is that too often, it’s proponents or pushers have ulterior wicked motives. Often Sex Ed is a commercial for the false security of shoddy, experimental Big Pharma contraceptive potions and poisons, which then leads to secondary profits for the pro-aborts selling abortions for their shoddy contraceptive “failures.”

Often if there’s a Sex Ed program that conservative parents like, then the pushers of Sex Ed don’t like it, and there’s a big political battle, which that should tell us that it’s an attack against people’s morality, faith, and against their families.

True love waits, or abstinence is best, is too simple a message for today’s wicked “progressives” to accept. They like to complicate it with a sales pitch for promiscuity and nasty contraceptives, to somehow justify their “much learning.”

Another problem with Sex Ed, is that often it’s co-ed, meaning mixed sexes within the class. This is designed to break down natural modesty between the sexes, and promote immoral promiscuity. While some may wish we could be so open about sex, that sex segregating the classes should not be necessary, I’m just not so sure that this is the case?

Author Sam Blumingfeld (spelling?) said when they call it “Ed” or “Education,” it isn’t (education, but propaganda). We don’t have Math Education. It’s just Math. So when you see Ed tacked onto the name of something, it’s suspect as possible propaganda, and not teaching of truth.

Also, Sex Ed is very simple, way too short to be a regular class unto itself. I see it more appropriate perhaps, as just a few pages in a Biology or a Health textbook. And it should be promoting good moral values, such as naturally growing responsible families, not a commercial for immoral sex, promiscuity, or for nasty unnatural anti-life contraceptives.

I see nothing wrong with some children’s dictionary or health book I saw years ago in a bookstore, showing a drawing of the erect penis inside the vagina, and the baby growing in the womb on the next page. Just a natural fact of life, that most all humans reproduce. I didn’t see the book promoting any sexual immorality, and simply explaining how babies are made, seems OK to me.

BTW, the only reason I addressed this comment to you, is because you posted recently.
raika

hi..im raika
hmmp..i need your help abwt sex edu must be taught in hihg school curriculum…i need to gather some info abwt sex edu in phil and i dont know where 2 get it….we have debate abwt that and im in affirmative side…could you help me in writing my speech abwt sex education must be taught in highschool curriculum?
sexedusucks

i have a debate too about sex education and we’re at the “pro” side. It means we agree on sex education in h.s. but this topic really sucks because many boys in our school have malicious mind already. I ask many people if they are agree or not and many of them answered me with “I’m in the middle”..haha. Well, I’m also anti but as I read all this comments, my point of view change. Maybe sex education will help us. It really depends on who is teaching it. Well, teens will learn it anyway so why not teach them.
i’m anti in the way that sex education contains not good things especially if someone in your class start to make fun of it and everyone will be curious of what that joker is saying and it will affect the clean minds of some student …but again…teens will learn it anyway so why not teach them.
Len

im taking the pro side to sex education. sex is good. i am a mom already, and for me, it would be much better for my child to learn about sex in a more formal setting which is to be done in school. let’s not be hypocrites and face the fact that most families would not discuss this matter openly to their children. this leads to more curiosity. i would teach this fact to my daughter but what about other parents? teaching sex education would be helpful to children depending on the method of teaching and the one teaching it. teaching sex education in schools should have the scientific facts including the values. sex should be taught to children as a sacred act done by married couples.

sex education should be taught gradually during their high school life. not abruptly so they would understand the consequences and be prepared for the real world
jeLy

I have a debate regarding on Sex Ed too..
As i read comments
it is more on Pros.
I need some information about it’s cons..
Please help me. .
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What does it mean to be male/female?
A. Guys
1. Right understanding and living: You are “rough, tough, and buff.” Your male bodies are bigger and stronger (remember my story about me, a female, pushing the blazer out of the snow—so don’t take this the wrong way). Because your bodies are made by God like that, it sends you a message. You are to protect and provide for those weaker (especially for women and children).Here are some examples:
a. Notice if a girl is being gossiped about—you protect her reputation.
b. If an underclassman—guy or girl—is being picked on, stand up for him/her.
c. When your mom needs help around the house or with a problem, be there for her. (Story of Fernando—he shed his flesh and blood for a woman).

2. Wrong understanding and lust—When you use your power to do the opposite of protecting and providing. (Use boy and girl dolls to act out the scenario: “Hey, baby, I love you so much, let’s do this to show our love.” His internal thoughts: “She’s not half as hot as those women on porn, but she’ll do…add fuel to my fire so that I can gratify myself with her and lust at her at home when I am alone.” Her internal thoughts: He loves me and will always be with me to protect me and provide for me. I trust him so much I will be in the most vulnerable position with him that humans can be in. He won’t hurt me.)

And whose “death” are you choosing by lusting, guys: not just the death of your relationship with God, not just the death of yourself by going against the way you are made as a man to protect and provide, you are helping to cause the “death” of this girl, because she will be broken (show the Dante Project of the person who is torn into pieces). Does this look to you like you protected and provided for this young woman? Society tells you that all of those activities outside of marriage are safe. Society is lying to you. This is a visual image of what you are doing to yourself, to another human, and to your relationship with God.

B. Girls
1. Right understanding and living: You are “hiding and inviting.” Your female bodies are hiding in that you veil that which is sacred. We are to dress modestly. We are inviting because you have a womb (joke about guys not knowing what that is) and breasts (joke about guys not realizing that). Because your bodies are made by God like that, it sends you a message. You are welcome and nurture all people (especially children).Here are some examples:
a. You see a guy or girl alone at the cafeteria table—go sit with him/her.
b. Someone is crying, reach out to nurture him/her.
c. Your little brother or sister wants to play—nurture him/her by playing a game.

(Story of Aggie who had an abortion).

2. Wrong understanding and lust—When you use your welcome and nurturing attributes the opposite way in forming a friendship. (Use boy and girl dolls to act out the scenario: “I know, I will take a picture of myself and send it to my boyfriend.” Her internal thoughts: “If I send him this and do some sexual acts for him, I will feel like someone loves me. Plus, people will admire me because I have a boyfriend with a cool car.” His internal thoughts: She loves me and will always be with me to be my closest friend. I trust her so much I will be in the most vulnerable position with her that humans can be in. She draws me to her; I desire her.)

And whose “death” are you choosing by lusting, girls: not just the death of your relationship with God, not just the death of yourself by going against the way you are made as a woman to welcome and nurture, you are helping to cause the “death” of this guy, because he will be broken (show the Dante Project of the person who is torn into pieces). Does this look to you like you nurtured him? Society tells you that all of those activities outside of marriage are safe. Society is lying to you. This is a visual image of what you are doing to yourself, to another human, and to your relationship with God.

IV. Conclusion—So, what do you do? First, if you have fallen prey to lust, you can change!! You don’t have to do porn, masturbate, use others as objects for your desire. You can choose life. Go to confession to be forgiven, then work on the opposite of lust: the virtue of chastity.
Virtue comes from the Latin, vir, which means “strength.” Society does not think people, especially teenagers, can be virtuous. It is too hard. We ought simply to give in to our sexual temptations and so have “safe sex.” None of it is safe, for it leads to death…is death safe??
One last observation of male/females. Guys, you are to protect and provide….but also to put on proper pedestal to pursue. How? Be a guy. Open doors. Carry her books. Call her/text her just because.. Pay for her dinner. Read poetry together. Write her poetry. Draw her portrait. Hold her hand. Give her a small kiss These elevate her. And when the temptation comes that you want to do more than these small intimate acts of true love, remember life and virtue. Remember your body says, “Protect, provide, pursue” and be rough, tough, and buff…by not giving in to lust. That, is a man. That is virtue.
Ladies, you are to welcome and nurture…but also to provide adventure, not as an object of lust, but as a woman of mystery. Let him do the above things. (You know you can do all of those better…but we give by receiving, by being honored and respected). Ladies, when you are tempted to unveil yourself before you are married, remember that you are to be mysterious, hiding. Think about what is supposed to happen on your honeymoon night (Jewish wedding of 7 days)…to be “apocalypse”, that is, unveiled by your husband fo r whom you waited. You can go against lust and wait for life and love.
vir

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What does it mean to be male/female?
A. Guys
1. Right understanding and living: You are “rough, tough, and buff.” Your male bodies are bigger and stronger (remember my story about me, a female, pushing the blazer out of the snow—so don’t take this the wrong way). Because your bodies are made by God like that, it sends you a message. You are to protect and provide for those weaker (especially for women and children).Here are some examples:
a. Notice if a girl is being gossiped about—you protect her reputation.
b. If an underclassman—guy or girl—is being picked on, stand up for him/her.
c. When your mom needs help around the house or with a problem, be there for her. (Story of Fernando—he shed his flesh and blood for a woman).

2. Wrong understanding and lust—When you use your power to do the opposite of protecting and providing. (Use boy and girl dolls to act out the scenario: “Hey, baby, I love you so much, let’s do this to show our love.” His internal thoughts: “She’s not half as hot as those women on porn, but she’ll do…add fuel to my fire so that I can gratify myself with her and lust at her at home when I am alone.” Her internal thoughts: He loves me and will always be with me to protect me and provide for me. I trust him so much I will be in the most vulnerable position with him that humans can be in. He won’t hurt me.)

And whose “death” are you choosing by lusting, guys: not just the death of your relationship with God, not just the death of yourself by going against the way you are made as a man to protect and provide, you are helping to cause the “death” of this girl, because she will be broken (show the Dante Project of the person who is torn into pieces). Does this look to you like you protected and provided for this young woman? Society tells you that all of those activities outside of marriage are safe. Society is lying to you. This is a visual image of what you are doing to yourself, to another human, and to your relationship with God.

B. Girls
1. Right understanding and living: You are “hiding and inviting.” Your female bodies are hiding in that you veil that which is sacred. We are to dress modestly. We are inviting because you have a womb (joke about guys not knowing what that is) and breasts (joke about guys not realizing that). Because your bodies are made by God like that, it sends you a message. You are welcome and nurture all people (especially children).Here are some examples:
a. You see a guy or girl alone at the cafeteria table—go sit with him/her.
b. Someone is crying, reach out to nurture him/her.
c. Your little brother or sister wants to play—nurture him/her by playing a game.

(Story of Aggie who had an abortion).

2. Wrong understanding and lust—When you use your welcome and nurturing attributes the opposite way in forming a friendship. (Use boy and girl dolls to act out the scenario: “I know, I will take a picture of myself and send it to my boyfriend.” Her internal thoughts: “If I send him this and do some sexual acts for him, I will feel like someone loves me. Plus, people will admire me because I have a boyfriend with a cool car.” His internal thoughts: She loves me and will always be with me to be my closest friend. I trust her so much I will be in the most vulnerable position with her that humans can be in. She draws me to her; I desire her.)

And whose “death” are you choosing by lusting, girls: not just the death of your relationship with God, not just the death of yourself by going against the way you are made as a woman to welcome and nurture, you are helping to cause the “death” of this guy, because he will be broken (show the Dante Project of the person who is torn into pieces). Does this look to you like you nurtured him? Society tells you that all of those activities outside of marriage are safe. Society is lying to you. This is a visual image of what you are doing to yourself, to another human, and to your relationship with God.

IV. Conclusion—So, what do you do? First, if you have fallen prey to lust, you can change!! You don’t have to do porn, masturbate, use others as objects for your desire. You can choose life. Go to confession to be forgiven, then work on the opposite of lust: the virtue of chastity.
Virtue comes from the Latin, vir, which means “strength.” Society does not think people, especially teenagers, can be virtuous. It is too hard. We ought simply to give in to our sexual temptations and so have “safe sex.” None of it is safe, for it leads to death…is death safe??
One last observation of male/females. Guys, you are to protect and provide….but also to put on proper pedestal to pursue. How? Be a guy. Open doors. Carry her books. Call her/text her just because.. Pay for her dinner. Read poetry together. Write her poetry. Draw her portrait. Hold her hand. Give her a small kiss These elevate her. And when the temptation comes that you want to do more than these small intimate acts of true love, remember life and virtue. Remember your body says, “Protect, provide, pursue” and be rough, tough, and buff…by not giving in to lust. That, is a man. That is virtue.
Ladies, you are to welcome and nurture…but also to provide adventure, not as an object of lust, but as a woman of mystery. Let him do the above things. (You know you can do all of those better…but we give by receiving, by being honored and respected). Ladies, when you are tempted to unveil yourself before you are married, remember that you are to be mysterious, hiding. Think about what is supposed to happen on your honeymoon night (Jewish wedding of 7 days)…to be “apocalypse”, that is, unveiled by your husband fo r whom you waited. You can go against lust and wait for life and love.
jacie

The numerous diseases- STDs & AIDs cannot be answered by sex education. They are behaviorally transmitted diseases that can be cut only if the immoral behavior is cut. These could therefore be addressed in teaching fidelity, chastity and purity through values education which is only allocated by DEPed 1 hr. a week or 15 min. a day as against the English, Math etc that takes 5 hours a week. No wonder our sense of morality has become clouded and confused.

Now we want to teach our children how to safely have sex, because we want a world with no consequences despite our lust. Our premise is people. Our premise is that they (including kindergartens) want to have sex anyway, so let’s teach them how to do it safely.
Roland

You may not believe me, but my sex education at school did include it. They told us about HIV/AIDS and tripper and what it means to be “positive”, you can be dead by a simple cold or cough for example.

They also gave us a small handout, how to strap-on a condome. It is given out by our government and the school is forwarding it to the young pupils (~16 yrs old, the right time).
Ann

We are Blessed to to know people like you. Please keep-on. we are with you for the sake of our country’s future.
Let us learn from countries who had introduce sex education at the early age of their people. Sana ang tutukan ng DepEd ay kung papano makakabasa ang kanilang student hindi kung papano at ano ang Sex.

Sana sa pag upo ng ating bagong President ay mapalitan ang ngayong direction.

Bata papo kami para pag aralan yan. Maawa po sana sila saamin.

Ann
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I just want to say (well actually I have lots to say) that I think this is a very tricky subject and goes to the heart of what we really are – a basically religious, conservative country with a strong influence from the Catholic church.

That said, I’d like to point out that we had sex education (under the subject of “Health”) back in high school, which was around the early 1990s (so that was like 20 years ago). My school was a Catholic all-girls school run by nuns and yet they allowed that subject to be taught to us. The subject includes the reproductive system, how girls can become pregnant and what are the different contraceptives available out there (with actual samples, mind you). We were even shown films on abortion (The Silent Scream I think it was called), with the understanding that such is bad. And we all took it seriously, nobody really laughed at it because we were comfortable learning about this subject.

I am thankful that I had this education and this is what makes me a pro-sex education person. I think it’s all about the delivery, the media that will be used and the kind of teacher that will teach such subject. I think the delivery needs to be as objective as possible, with no hint of malice at all. I think it is high time that the schools support the parents in teaching this subject because, let’s face it, they are the children’s second homes plus they have access to materials that can help drive home the point of the subject. This is not a “parent pass the buck to the school” type of thing, this is a practical course that we have to take from people that we trust and respect (e.g. the teachers). I also think that we need to stop protecting our children from the ‘realities of this world’ and early pregnancies, pre-marital sex and contraceptives are part of these realities. Surely, learning these from the school and from home are much much better than learning them on the streets. Just my two cents’ worth.
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rianne

I already mentioned here before…. sex education is fine I agree with it but they should start with high school students and NOT with elementary and KINDERGARTEN students as what the health secretary said. If I am the parent of the said student, I will strongly disagree to this.

I have nephews and nieces and they like to draw, to play and still like fairy tales. I am reading them children books sometimes for them to learn how to respect not just their parents but also people around them, for them to know how to follow even just a simple advice or rules. I teach them how to count, how to read and write alphabets and thats what they should learn first before anything else.

Sex Education is a critical subject and maybe it will be okay if the teacher is very good in explaining things but what if not? I’ve studied both in private and public schools so I know how some teacher teach their students.

For that I strongly believe that they should let the parents teach their kids until they reach high school. At this stage they will surely understand already the pros and cons of sex ed because they are old enough to understand. Plus dating usually starts in High school here in this country. So… thats my debate.
rze

i agree with you mam we have group here in caloocan pushing sex education no one can stop us Maryusep naman d2 samin sa squater area ginagawang libangan ang panganganak bumuo kmi ng grupo d2 kmi mga sk para isulong eto programang to kung kontra ibang magulang d2 kayo na lng palibhasa mayaman kayo ok lng kahit maraming anak mag samasama kyo ng mga pareng gunggung
http://forums.delphiforums.com/innovate1 Pronatalist

The big problem with “Sex Ed” is the political baggage it often comes packaged with. Those promoting Sex Ed, are often pushing immoral promiscuity, pre-marital sex, and/or abortions.

God gave us sex, as a wonderful way to pro-create more human beings coming to life. People should be encouraged to enjoy sex, mate, reproduce children. But we are to do it the right way. Pair up, marry, build responsible stable nest/family home to raise responsible and moral children.

Is that the Same “Silent Scream” prolife video I have seen, warning people against the horrors of abortion?

Early pregnancies are okay, if people are responsible and marry young then. I believe more people ought to be sexually active and naturally growing their families, and welcoming the natural flow of life. But whatever happened to getting married first and personal responsibility? I think many Sex Educators oppose morality and personal responsibility. That also was a nasty effect of the experimental awful Big Pharma contraceptives.

Also, I heard an author say, when they call it something-Ed, it isn’t. We don’t have Math Ed or Reading Ed. So probably Sex Ed means it isn’t education really, but false propaganda. Like a trojan horse trying to sneak in the enemy, trying to appear legitimate. If Sex Ed was true, it would respect family life, and encourage people to go on having lots of babies, but the right responsible way, withing stable responsible families. Sex Ed ought to emphasis the reproducing and life, such as showing an actual human birth, a baby’s head crowning in the vagina, a mother happy/thrilled to be adding another precious human life to her naturally-growing family. Not showing or telling people to use the awkward, unnatural, contrary-to-nature anti-life contraceptives.
But too much of Education these days is about liberal propaganda, control, and not about freedom and encouraging independent thought. So we must be wary of what they are trying to educate or deceive us with.
maze..

gud day..in our skul im the ssg public information officer or P.I.O
i have the task to inform students abwt the latest happenings in our society.every wik i post different topics in our bulletin. this wik i post abwt sex education.
do my research idea help students to understand further about sex educ. being taught in highschool?? help me…
ms. blue girl

hiiiiiiiiii
actually
i m rally
confused
about what our society has become
and i certainly agree with you that sex is sacred
actually
i have a debate tomorrow in class
and you help
me a lot
thank you so much
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anne

can you pls send to my email the soft copy of your research?
thank you so much ! …..
aldrin

..sex education is an outbursting issue right now.

..You know what..

i’m going to make an interview about it..

And I also need some facts or backgroud so I can formulate questions well…

..Hays..

..hirap nman sa seminary oh..

tsk..
…
Help me please..
nethan

im making term paper ryt now,,,pls give me some advantages in sex education and dis advantages..thanks…
http://www.leadphil.blogspot.com Arnel Endrinal

Hi momblogger,
I think sex ed will work If you are the one to make the modules! OK yung strategy mo to get the message across to the kids.. indirect pero the same effect!
Maraming parents, hindi nila alam na dapat turuan nila yung anak nila at kung paano gagawin ito… So, siguro, yung mga parents ang dapat turuan ng SexEd, or more properly, “How to guide your kids about sex”?
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chase…

just passing to say something and to gather some info. about this issue…
well i am a 4th year high school student…
i am goin’ to make editorial..

my comment:…
para sa mga pilipinang kagaya ko…
well kong ang bagay na ito ang pag-uusapan para sa atin masasabi natin na para bumababa ang moralidad natin pero if we are goin to think about it well i guess parang ganon narin ang mangyayari..(para lang sa aking opinyon..)

pero kong talagang iintindihin natin for me…
it’s not about it…
i’m not saying that sex education is the best but it’s better…
‘di para malaman kong paano makipag sex kundi para maginf aware naman tayo…
c’mon our country is so populated right now…
one thing that can help our country is in this way…

sex education is not how to do sex…
ito ay isa lang info na dapat nating malaman para din sa ating kapakanan…

lage namang nanjan ang mga magulang para gumabay…
ang akin lang para naman mamulat tayong mga kabataan na dapat maging aware tayo about dito…
(i don’t mean to do sex even not getting married first…

try to think anyway…

t.y…
http://forums.delphiforums.com/innovate1 Pronatalist

You said, “c’mon our country is so populated right now…”

But that is no excuse to push “Sex Ed” as a population “control” tool. Rather, shouldn’t it be more the other way, if everybody’s seemingly enjoying having lots of babies, why not also enjoy having babies, and let Baby Booms persist and grow naturally, so that all the more people may experience life?

Getting so populated, ought to be counted as a very positive sign of country or human progress, or so many more people who can then experience life. Used to be that growth was good. I believe human population growth is still very good, as more and more people would be glad to live.

Why isn’t Sex Education how to do sex, or how to contact for sex? That would be far better than all the anti-life propaganda for the use of side-effect-ridden, nasty, unnatural contraceptives. If we are to have all this Sex Ed, then why not about sexual positions, or how to make a baby, how to grow families even faster or boost fertility? I am a serious skeptic of Sex Ed, because it’s often so anti-family-growth, pagan, a commercial for artificial nasty contraceptives and abortions. Whatever happened to babies happen when the happen, and the responsibility of getting married before sex, and providing for and loving all the children that then come to life from a happy, successful marriage? Contraceptives has help corrupt the people’s thinking and profane sex. Sex is supposed to equal BABIES. That’s what God created it for.

How are people to enjoy having their precious darling babies in a world with so many people alive already? Isn’t it obvious? Let the world populate itself denser and denser, to hold everybody and their progeny. So I see no reason to let high population levels throw cold water upon married couples love lives, or to spook them into having smaller families. Didn’t some pro-life Philippine prime minister say it’s okay the Filipino population is growing, because the whole world is growing? I agree, because that means the world will be figuring out how, and developing the technologies, to support far larger populations than were present in the past.

All countries should be expected to do their part, to help the world hold more and more people, especially by the natural increase of their very own people.

Just because the country may be getting so populated right now, is no excuse why the babies can’t just keep coming and coming. Each and every human life is sacred, people have very good and compelling reasons to have as many children as they do, it’s well worth “risking” having highly populated countries so that far more people may experience life, and families can keep enjoying such a fulfilling part of life, as raising children.

Sex Ed shouldn’t be so much pagan and going against nature, but respecting the desire or need of families to grow, and Sanctity and sacredness of each and every human life. It shouldn’t be about some wicked political agenda that goes against the natural family growth and the rights of individuals. Sex Ed shouldn’t be a contraceptive and abortions commercial propaganda tool. If Sex Ed can’t be more moral, then forget Sex Ed and leave it to the parents. If we must have Sex Ed, let it be pro-life, pro-family-growth, pro-natural-population-expansion. So if anti-life contraception is included, why not the less morally-offensive, sexual positions, better sexual pleasure, and how to make more babies faster and raise them easier? Don’t go so much against nature, and thus profane sex, promoting sexual immorality and irresponsibility. Back in the days when sex=babies, people pretty much knew they had to be careful to be married and monogamous, not reckless and promiscuous, because very real babies could come alive, and babies need responsible parents to care for them.

Here in the United States, liberals of decades ago, said, “Make love, not war.” I agree to a point, if making love = babies. I would much rather live in a world naturally filling up with more and more people making love, making whoopie, than people making conflicts and wars. People need something productive to do, and raising families enhances better character, teaches patience, and is among the most generous and life-fulfilling activities people can do. And reproducing more babies, is apparently something most people can do well, considering how many people there is getting to be throughout the world. Don’t take away the thing that so many people can do so well. Let the people enjoy their naturally-growing families. Life would be too dull and drab, without parents having and loving sometimes their very many children.
rey

sex education is the devil’s workshop….the mind of the young ones will be wicked everyday…. it will not help to young people because of knowing the things which is lawful only to the marraige. Sin is overflowing on this dark world. God is angry everyday because of evil doers who agreed this kind of teaching.
Today, Satan is very happy because of sex education was taught on public school. For sure, God is not happy and reallly they will go to hell if they die because the bible say, wicked mind cannnot inheret the kingdom of God.
at the very young age knows already the use of condom because of the teaching and mga manyak nga mga dep ed……
Hell wil be larger and larger and more young people will try to do the sex even at the young age because of immorality that was teach by the teachers. for sure real saved person will not teach the sex education. Hope Christians will not be compromise. i pray that all of the authors of this teaching will die…..and go to hell..God is angry …..
xtine

Hello Ma’am!

I find your this blog interesting and very helpful for my editorial article regarding sex education on my journalism subject. I would like to ask for your permission if i could quote some phrases here.

Thank you and God bless!
MAUREEN

am really confused with what stand will i choose at our debate but when i had viewed this blog i feel enlightened due to the fact that sex education is not as bad as it seems……..it just needs to be taken and be taught in a moral way…….parents should not wori in the implementation of the said issue….
Veronica kyla sabejon

Is it k 2 all of u the sex ed.?
ram

we are also conducting thesis for pushing sex education to be part of elementary and secondary level Curriculum, to inform and let the students to be knowledgeable about sex and effects of early sex,, coz we are hoping that through this ,,,, we can help in campaigning for “no to early sex’.
http://male edmar

you are much nothing!! Why not be in favor in either parental teaching or school teaching about sex education.. as what the saying goes..”two is better than one” in this way i think we can educate students about the possible effect of committing sex in an early age. For country’s sake, let us impose and implement sex education at school.