UNESCO promotes "comprehensive education" on a global scale, which covers a wide range, including: relationships, values, rights and culture, gender, violence and security, health and well-being skills, human body and development, sex and sexual behavior, and sexual and reproductive health. What exactly do these contents mean?
Interpersonal relations: including how to understand and deal with family relations, friendship, love and intimacy.
Values, human rights, culture and sexual orientation: discuss sexual values, what rights people have related to sex, and different cultures' cognition of sex.
Gender: This paper discusses the understanding and identification of gender, involving the division of gender roles, gender equality, gender stereotypes and gender discrimination.
Violence and prevention: including the definition of sexual violence, defining the boundaries and privacy of the body, and introducing the tools and communication skills that can be used when encountering sexual assault.
Healthy development: discuss the influence of social rules and peers on sexual behavior, tell children how to make decisions, refuse or negotiate in the face of "sex", discuss the influence of media on sex education, and teach children how to seek support and help.
Human body and development: introduce the relationship between sex and reproduction, popularize anatomical and physiological knowledge, and solve a series of problems in adolescence.
Sexual orientation and behavior: introduce and explain different sexual orientations and behaviors, and introduce sexual arousal and life cycle related to sex.
Reproductive health: discuss pregnancy and prevention, prevention and care of AIDS, and help children know, understand and reduce other sexual diseases.
We can see that the educational content of sex education is very rich, including not only the most basic physiological knowledge, but also social issues such as intimacy, gender role division and gender equality. Sex education should run through the whole growth process of children. Facing children of different ages, the specific contents and methods of sex education are very different.
2. When do children have sex education?
UNESCO suggests that sex education should be given to children from the age of five. Just like everyone's cognitive development, sexual development begins from the birth of a child.
Sexual development includes not only the physical changes that occur with children's growth, but also the sexual knowledge, subjective understanding and behavior they have learned. Behavior in the process of sexual development can be roughly divided into the following three stages according to age:
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3. Sex education for children of different ages has different goals.
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