Adolescence Should Receive Five Kinds of Sexual Education: Misteaching Has Serious Consequences

Sex is a science, and strengthening scientific knowledge education for teenagers in this area is equally important as other scientific knowledge education in a sense.

Beneficial to physical and mental health. After adolescence, as sexual development matures, teenagers experience a series of physiological and psychological phenomena such as ejaculation, menarche, and sudden sexual impulses with the awakening and development of sexual consciousness. If timely sex education can be provided, male and female adolescents can correctly treat and handle these sexual physiological and psychological problems, which is of great significance for promoting their normal physical and mental development and preventing sexual physiological and psychological diseases.

It is conducive to cultivating sexual morality. Timely sex education during adolescence is beneficial for guiding adolescents to abide by social morality of sexual love and behavior, becoming a person with noble character and morality, and effectively preventing the occurrence of issues such as early love, premarital sex, teenage pregnancy, sexual abnormalities, and sexual crimes.

It is beneficial for preventing sexually transmitted diseases. The various diseases and sexual dysfunction of the male reproductive organs are mostly due to a lack of attention to sexual physiology and psychological hygiene. Strengthening sex education for teenagers can prevent problems before they occur, greatly reducing the incidence of sexual diseases and disorders after marriage.

Beneficial to family happiness and social stability. Sexual life is an important part of marital life, and its harmony and happiness are closely related to individuals, marriage, family, and society. The mental pain, marital discord, extramarital affairs, family disintegration, and many social problems of some married young people are often related to the lack of necessary sex education for teenagers from an early age.

It is beneficial for preventing juvenile sexual delinquency. Strengthening the guidance and education of sexual science knowledge can resist the temptation and corrosion of pornography, audiovisual products, and Western social trends of "sexual liberation" and "sexual freedom" on teenagers, and effectively prevent the occurrence of juvenile sexual crimes.

Adolescent education generally includes three aspects: sexual physiology, sexual psychology, and sexual morality. The arrangement and selection of teaching content is based on sexual physiological knowledge as the starting point, characterized by sexual psychological counseling, and focused on sexual moral education. Through sex education, teenagers can have a correct understanding of the changes in their physical and mental development during adolescence, pay attention to protecting their bodies, cultivate hygiene habits, cultivate good psychological and moral qualities, understand self-esteem, self-love, self-respect, and self-improvement, have self-control ability, and be able to correctly treat friendships between men and women, cherish youth.