Doc, please continue ‘Sex Talk’

Fri, Jul 30, 2010

Editor: Please grant me a space in your newspaper as I’m responding to an article that was published in the Tuesday midweek paper “Alternative sex organs or altered mental state?”{{more}}

I’m with bewilderment here. Over my young years growing up in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, my parents were very open with my siblings and I with regard to sex and I have valued this as I didn’t have to feel out of place.

Surely I understand that some statements were laid on the table without being screened, but it’s time that people begin to explore, research and explain to their kids/children what sex really is and not wait on someone from outside to come into your home and do this.

I would have expected health and family life education to be taught in schools, be it primary, secondary or graduate level. Why do “parents and teachers struggle on a daily basis to get our children to eschew?” I must say I agree with the doctor’s examples and explanations to break this mental cycle of parents, family and teachers.

Please, sir, “sexual lifestyles that are different to those practiced and thought normal by vast majority of the society”; “to formulate one’s own morality and decency”; “and adopting this misguided, twenty-first-century version of pseudo-postmodernism”? – I would like you to tell me what in an educational and informative article was “indecent, disgraceful and distasteful”?

To the doctor, please continue to educate the people that are stuck in their “old fashioned” ways. I can only imagine the reactions of others who are reading your article. Let’s continue to move to have our children prepared for the real world and not talking about “birds” and “bees”

Asher Blucher-Sandy