Sex education is inevitable!

Arabs have been thrusting their head in the sand for far too long. While incidents like the dumpster babies, honor crimes are raising some serious questions regarding our educational systems and the way it is neglecting pressing issues of the world in the 21st century. Which leads me to believe that Sex education needs to be mandatory and instated in every school for young teens to understand how to deal with it, how to handle it, how to protect themselves, and what to do if the worst was to happen.

Someone needs to put an end to superstition and make sure that our youth are not an easy victim to ignorance.

Before someone jumps off the boat to tell me that this in Un-islamic and doesn't comply with our traditions. Allow me to say few things here.

Islam as a religion, is one of the most liberal and upfront in the way it handles issues of sex, dealing/taming/regulating/curbing human desires away from taboos and social imposed crap (aka traditions). In fact, Islam made sure that both male and female understand their RIGHTS and OBLIGATIONS in a relationship. Making it clear helps people fulfil their human desires in compliance with the Islamic Shariah if you're a person of faith, and if you're not then it would be in accordance with common sense and social norms (although I'm sure someone is going to contest this)

The lack of sex education in our schools and our life, have left our youth a fertile ground for superstition, fear, wrong values, wrong ideas, wrong actions in the face of such strong sources of influence like, peers, Internet, satellite TV stations and bootlegged-DVDs.

No one can deny the important role the parents, and environment play in these cases. But there is a limit to what they can do without the backing of the second most important institution in the life of a person. The School!

Instead of allowing everyone in the world to influence and ruin a person's sexual life from it's infancy, why not allow the system to resolve this issue by introducing an educational curriculum that is supervised by specialists, child psychologists and even religious scholars to make sure that the whole system is geared towards successfully delivering the message. Allowing the new generation to grow empowered with knowledge, and have it done in accordance with our religious and cultural obligations

There's no doubt that this is a hard step. People aren't very accepting to the idea that their DAUGHTERS would know about these things on the fear that knowledge might inflame the girl's desires to explore. Couldn't the same happen simply by watching TV, talking to a friend or simply opening one of those booby-trapped emails?

And even if that is true, isn't it better to introduce abstinence based on self respect, self control and knowledge rather than ignorance and "not having the chance"

In computers we have a term called security by obscurity. A form of false security that is based on the fact that people do not know something therefore they don't attack it. But kids these days are far smarter than that. They will figure it out, and they might end up attempting a thing or two. Considering it, hacking life! Kids these days are obsessed with hacking-stuff!

By the way, I said daughters deliberately, because in this society, [fill in your favorite female vulnerability sexist reason]

It's time for us to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Walls, and bars can no longer detain or protect. Our only power and our last shield is knowledge! Even India and China have started thier own sex education programs to make sure thy stop social problems before they happen. In two countries who have been traditionally very conservative.

I think it's time for the whole Arab world to wake up