00:00Young people like me and my peers are constantly being bombarded with sexual content these days
00:05and social media makes it even worse.
00:08So, when is the right time for us to access sex education that makes us aware of ourselves
00:13and better prepared for adolescence and adult life?
00:21Where did you first hear about sex and then where exactly and what exactly did you hear about?
00:26I heard about it when I was in Primary 6 and then it was when our teacher was teaching us about
00:31adolescence. It was just like, we shouldn't have sex because we are young. They didn't actually say
00:36many things about it.
00:37I heard about sex from my sitting partner. She was actually telling me about her experience.
00:43She had sex and then she was telling me about it. She told me about the pain she went through
00:48because that was actually the first time she had sex and then how she bled and then all those things.
00:53I first learned about sex in the house. So, I accidentally entered my mom's room and saw my mom
01:00and dad on the bed and I didn't understand. So, I went to tell my siblings and they explained to me
01:06that it is sex but they didn't tell me what actually was going on. They just told me that it is sex.
01:12I first heard about sex in the house. My parents were talking about my cousin. My cousin went to
01:17have sex with this girl and she got pregnant. So, I was like, oh, what do you mean by sex?
01:22And they were like, they can't tell me more because of my age. I was like eight at that time.
01:26So, they can't give me more information. But sex is about two people, boy and girl having fun.
01:31I was watching a movie with my mom and the characters were engaging in sexual related
01:39activities and then my mom told me what they were doing and she told me not to engage in such
01:44activities because it could lead to so many things such as the sexually transmitted diseases
01:51and then also teenage pregnancy. Do you think the information you got on sex was too early or you
01:56think it was too late for you? As at seven, it was too early because it made me more curious.
02:02It was too late. I wanted to know about it but then my mom kept delaying. I felt I wanted to know
02:08more about it. I was eight at that time. So, I was curious. I started asking more questions about sex.
02:13I always go back to school and ask about sex. She was like, is that what they teach in school?
02:20I felt like I got knowledge about sex very late at eight years old. Eight years was very
02:26late for me because my peers knew more. When you were constantly asking her, did she give you the
02:31accurate information that you needed? She didn't want to upload it on me. So, every time I asked, she gave
02:36me something small. My time, I see it to be normal. The time I got to know about it because I entered
02:41the room and I've seen it. You can't do nothing about it. I've seen it. Either you tell me more about it
02:48or I go and practice and know how it feels like. Also, they didn't tell me, they didn't go
02:53into details. I kept on asking myself questions. So, I got some time. I was asking my peers
02:59what is sex about. They were giving me rough answers. At what point did you satisfy your curiosity?
03:04I went to search for it. The meaning, the definition. I went through to see if that was what I
03:10actually saw on the bed. I went through the images, videos to see, yeah, okay, this is what I saw.
03:16I feel it was too late for me because I was 11 when I heard that. I feel my parents
03:23should have educated me on it as I was growing up. I feel my parents were the ones I was
03:28supposed to hear that from and not my colleagues. It wasn't too late and it wasn't too early because
03:33I was 12 at the time and I was in primary six. Then, I started menstruating. So, I thought it was
03:39very good for me to know about sex. At what age should children be exposed to sex education
03:45and what context should they look like? I think as early as three, children should start
03:51learning things about themselves and about their sex and get oriented in those aspects.
03:57It should be holistic. We should have a broader context of the topic
04:03handled in our school levels. Children should be made to learn most of this sex education trends
04:11so that they become fully aware because they are involved and children, we are told, start
04:16very early in this stage. So, we should, you know, make it as part of the curriculum
04:23and we should pay particular attention to it.
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