ABSTRACT

Teaching children about sex without thinking of the real consequences is like teaching them to shoot firearms and kill. At 9 or 10 years, they can’t possibly comprehend the more intricate mechanisms of a rifle, let alone the actual harm that it can do. And, just like the child soldiers of Congo, they can more easily be brain washed into thinking they can be invincible. It is the same with sexual education, the responsibility is upon us, as adults, to protect children, not to enable them to harm themselves and others. I remember one of my children when she was four or five, and came home from pre-school with a new word, ‘vagina’. Shortly after we caught her trying to insert something in the cat’s back-orifice!