Indian Government: Sex Education “Has Absolutely No Place” in Our Schools - promotes Promiscuity

LifeSiteNews.com -- Your Life, Family and Culture Outpost ^ | Friday June 12, 2009 | By Hilary White

[topher]

From the article:

The Indian government’s reasoning stands in sharp contrast to that of the West, which, in reaction to steadily increasing rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, has invariably increased access to free contraceptives and abortion and exposed ever-younger children to more explicit sex education.

Doesn't everyone know that condoms are the cure for everything? India doesn't think so... Good for India...

Thank God, there is still some sane Governments in this world...

[topher]

From the article:

Pratiba Naitthani, a co-petitioner and teacher, told the committee that “nothing was safer than abstinence till marriage.”

Maybe Notre Dame University should invite him as a guest speaker... Nah, that would make too much sense. This guy probably knows nothing about football (American)...

[Past Your Eyes]

"The Indian government has rejected western-style sex education programs, saying they do nothing to solve the problem of teenage pregnancy but only exacerbate the problem by promoting sexual promiscuity."

DOH!!

[PugetSoundSoldier]

Hmmmm...

I really do agree with the guy’s message, but I don’t think we should hold this up as a good reason to teach abstinence only, considering India is the second most populous nation in the world, and has a birthrate 50% higher than the US!

[Eternal_Bear]

One Billion Indians can’t be wrong!

[Westbrook]

The Indians are 100% correct.

American “Sex Education” was championed by pedophilic perverts like Alfred Kinsey and black widows like Margaret Sanger.

Promiscuity was ALWAYS the goal, because it creates more dependency on government.

[Bitsy]

Gosh, that’s an obscure thought for libs. Go India!!!

[trumandogz]

The guy may on to something as India only has a population of 1,200,000,000 people.

[reaganaut1]

I really do agree with the guy’s message, but I don’t think we should hold this up as a good reason to teach abstinence only, considering India is the second most populous nation in the world, and has a birthrate 50% higher than the US!

Yes, but married women are the vast majority of those giving birth.

[east1234]

“explicit details about “alternative methods” of sex, including anal and oral sex, presented as a means of avoiding AIDS.”

lol, someone better explain just what kind of sex is most likely to spread AIDS.

[SolidWood]

Considering that many are forcefully married at young age...

[tflabo]

No wonder that Indian students excel in math and science.
USA public education is one huge expensive LOSER run by degenerate leftists.

[Saltmeat]

You can know everything there is to know about your digestive system, and you will still get hungry. You can know everything about sex and you will still have the urge for sex. The problem is not education or the lack thereof. It is the lack of morals, self-control and a sense of personal responsibility. If the young bucks had to support their offspring instead of the taxpayers, perhaps the situation would be very different.

[swarthyguy]

Frigging retarded neanderthal Hindus.

Now they’ve done gone and PO’ed all the American NGO types promoting this stuff there.

Sex “education”? Considering the population, I think the people have well figured it out for themselves, lol!

[MrB]

Leftists don’t even consider this a valid concept.
They are so engrained with the “sex positive” agenda that they can’t fathom someone not being “sexually healthy”.

[bankcritic]

Young people are going to have sex no matter what gets taught in school. I agree with you that condoms aren't a cure for everything, but a comprehensive education program teaching about birth control methods, human reproductive biology, STD's and the dangers of unprotected sex (even among married couples) can go a long way to reducing teenage pregnancies. I would also put forth that learning is a life long process and this information isn't just for use in high school, but can greatly benefit them in adult life.

Teaching about birth control, abortion or the basic biology of reproduction is not immoral and in fact will do more to prevent the spread of STD’s and decrease the rate of unwanted teenage pregnancies than just yelling “DONT HAVE SEX” at kids, which given the natural rebelliousness of youth is an almost sure fire method to encourage unwanted teenage pregnancies.

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Yea, but out-of-wedlock births and divorce rates are pretty low in India. In fact, substantially lower than most other places.

[liberalism is suicide]

Unleashing
Nazi
Indoctination
Concerning
Everyone’s
Family=UNICEF

[SeminoleSoldier]

Jai Hind!

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Maybe Notre Dame University should invite him as a guest speaker... Nah, that would make too much sense. This guy probably knows nothing about football (American)...

Actually, the person is a 'she'... :^)

 

http://www.tehelka.com/story_main29.asp?filename=hub280407Our_lady.asp

 

 

CULTURE & SOCIETY

Sex and Society

OUR LADY OF MALADIES

She stalls films, files PILs, gets ads banned. Pratiba Naitthani is best known as Mumbai’s one-woman moral police force. But there’s more to her than reactionary froth, says Shalini Singh

 

 

‘I’ve been accused of being affiliated with the Bajrang Dal and the RSS. No one has brainwashed me. I spend a lot of time with youngsters and I feel I can make a difference’

She isn’t quite the dour fogey you expect. As she sits in a coffeeshop, sipping a strawberry milkshake — demure in a mauve salwar-kameez, manicured nails a freshly-painted shade of hot toffee — you could easily mistake Pratiba Naitthani for just another downtown Mumbai 30-something. But this otherwise nondescript lecturer, who teaches political science at her alma mater, St Xavier’s College, is also known as the city’s resident moral cop for the frequency of her very vocal opposition to sex and violence in the media. In 2005, in the course of a single year, Naitthani raised objections to the withdrawal of the case against models Madhu Sapre and Milind Soman who appeared nude in a shoe ad; filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against TV channels for showing adult films; joined a five-day campaign highlighting the cultural exploitation of women; and registered complaints galore against indecent film posters. More recently, just before Maharashtra decided to ban sex education in high schools, Naitthani participated in a press conference held to voice concerns over the CBSE’s proposed Adolescent Education Programme.

 

Ask her why and her answers are pat. “They should first explain what they mean by sex education — is it gender education, is it information about maturing bodies or is it information on sexual intercourse?” Even though teachers’ reference manuals are the only material so far released, the content is too detailed and explicit, she feels. “None of this was ever done in our country. A syllabus like this needs to be created with a lot of sensitivity.” She cites an exercise she says is included in the handbook to make Class VI students aware of sexual abuse. It apparently entails calling two volunteers from the class, blindfolding one and asking the other to touch him/her at different parts of the body. The teacher then explains the difference between a ‘good’ touch and a ‘bad’ one. “How comfortable will a 10-year-old be standing in front of the class like that, and can another child touch him/her in an abusive way in the first place? You don’t have to commit abuse and say, this is abuse. A simple statement — like, no one can touch you in these parts this way, whoever it may be — should be enough,” she says. Point taken, but why does she always have issues with sex and morality? “The media is saying there’s a BJP / Islamic agenda to the issue. They’re ignorant. Look at Kerala — a hundred percent literate, Communist state, and the first to ban this programme. Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka did the same, and now Maharashtra.”

The Naitthanis come from Uttaranchal; Pratiba Naitthani’s father set up Bombay University’s Hindi department. “Though I was brought up in Bombay, I go to Uttaranchal often — it’s important to be connected with one’s roots,” she says. Did she always want to be a teacher? “Yes, I’ve been in this profession for 11 years now.”

Naitthani’s also a trained classical singer who plans to release an album soon. An avid trekker — “I love being close to nature” — she once biked all the way to Leh and back with a male cousin. “We’ve had a fairly liberal upbringing. Our parents didn’t object when we sisters came home from music shows late at night. There have been several love marriages in my family.” Yet, curiously, Naitthani refuses to talk about pre-marital sex or comment on what, according to her, would be the right age to start having sex. “Sex isn’t entertainment, you know,” comes the terse reply. Her take on the recent raids conducted on couples in Mumbai? “Public space can’t be converted into private space. One has to draw a line. No one will arrest you for sitting close and holding hands, but maybe some couple went further and made passers-by uncomfortable.”

Columnist and filmmaker Pritish Nandy, is scathing: “People like her are extremely damaging to a liberal, democratic society. They tend to create conditions where the government can walk in and create dangerous policing methodologies. I wouldn’t want to debate with a person who demands police and state intervention in creative endeavours. The state is the last party who should be summoned, and I’m ashamed that people like this exist in a democratic country.” Her response? “I don’t care, let people say what they want about me. I’ve been accused of being affiliated with the Bajrang Dal and the RSS. No one has brainwashed me. I spend a lot of time with youngsters and, being in this profession, I simply feel I can make a difference,” she shrugs. Then she puts on her shades and bids a hurried goodbye.

Apr 28 , 2006