Sex Education in our country -INDIA
- Lyn Georgy
- Jul 14, 2014
- 2 min read
I must say this video is going to make a lot of rounds this week.
I largely see children and adolescents nowadays. and some of them have been abused, and they still didn’t even know it till they were in therapy!
All they were left with were these mixed emotions, feelings of disgust, distrust and hopelessness.
I was for once even confused whether I should let them know what had happened to them or just let it be. Considering how much more pain they may have to deal with. But then that’s exactly what the society is doing to our children—not sharing what they should be knowing presumably for their own protection. Is this truly protection or the total lack of it??
After 4 months of therapy one adolescent of around 17 asked me
“why is sex taboo? i wish if my parents talked about it openly to me. or even if my school actually talked about sex during sex education, then probably this would not have happened to me.”
and a few minutes later what (s)he asked was “what are you doing about it?”
I told her -this….(therapy)
and then came the big question- “but that’s after all the hurt and pain. what did you do to prevent it? what can you do to prevent it?”
After acknowledging the hurt pain, validating her/his feelings, Towards the end of our therapy (termination) [which was couple of months later] I asked her/him to simply change one word in the question and think about it
– what can ‘I’ do to prevent it?
(S)he is all set now. what about you?
Think and ACT…
Disclaimer- There are other things that happened in actual therapy for over months. it may have taken months to reach from one sentence that you read in the post to the next. things aren’t that simple in reality.
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