The naked Truth

The Case -

1. Ever increasing cases of the incurable HIV which has a maximum rate of transmission through unprotected sexual intercourse has reached a figure of 5.2 million in India.
   Rakesh Kumar, director of the non-governmental Center for Health and Development says –
   "Led by a consumerist boom, the youth in India are actively indulging in sex. Their lack of education about safe sex norms exposes them to the AIDS trap”.
2. A recent survey of Bombay youth concluded that
   · 64 percent of those ages 14 to 19 were no longer virgins, and 43 percent had visited prostitutes.
   · Another found that among young unmarried Indians, 69 percent of men and 38 percent of women reported pre-marital sex.
   · Of those having pre-marital sex, 45 percent were ages 16 to 19; 27 percent were 15 or younger; and 28 percent were 20 or older.
3. Every year, on an average, about 210 million women become pregnant throughout the world. Of these approximately, one-third or 75 million pregnancies are unwanted. About 40-50 million of these women resort to abortion, 30 million abortions being performed in the developing countries. In India, 11 million abortions take place annually and around 20,000 women die every year due to abortion related complications. (Read more here)
4. Apart from the famous Indian temple sculptures, India has also attained popularity through its well known texts of sixty four arts of which ‘Kamasutra’ is the flag bearer.(India is known for its expertise in the art of making love. It is quite evident from the sculptures that adorn the various Indian temple walls. Kamasutra, the world renowned epic in this field is just a reaffirmation of this fact. )
5. Bollywood is already exploring depths of female exploitation on the screen to which children today have unrestricted access apart from the internet and other electronic gadgets of this communication age.

The X Factor –
A country with above described profile must be the fore runner to advice safe sex, which is not the case, which is what is the x-factor
Though these factors are there for every one to see and realize but still ‘sex educations’ importance is undermined in this country. Even UN through its various agencies has continuously stressed its importance from time to time.
A couple of years ago, Ram Chandra Purbey, the former primary education minister for the state of Bihar, exclaimed the following; "Our society is not an open one. Inclusion of sex education in the syllabus can also have an adverse effect". This statement clearly indicates government attitudes on the issue of sex education, and the misconstrued notion of unpleasant effects of people having sex in every possible corner. Dangerously enough, there is no consensus in India over introducing sex and reproductive health education in the school and college syllabus.

A Business opportunity –
Taking the lack of openness issue at face value, we understand that to manage an in-house staff for imparting sex education is a major hindrance to the cause in India. A sharp entrepreneur can exploit this loop hole in the society as a brilliant business opportunity by providing the schools with well trained, highly knowledgeable and technically well equipped staff for imparting education in this critical course.

Thanks To Ranjith Boyanapalli

The X-Man-(Manish Saini)