The Futility of Sex Education (RH)

The Futility of Sex Education (RH)
By Dennis Yu (dennisjyu@gmail.com)

In its present form, the RH Bill will make sex education mandatory for grade school pupils up to high school. I cannot understand the utility of sex education. I wonder what will be its content. Oh yes, I know its content. It will teach the pupils their reproductive “rights”. That’s what they’ve been pushing in the United Nations for quite some time now.

The objective is to have an active and satisfying sexual life; to enjoy without “suffering” its consequences. They will teach the techniques on how not to get pregnant. They will teach, as it has happened in Australia, that as long as there is consent between a Grade 5 boy and a Grade 5 girl, it’s alright to do whatever their instinct tells them. But will pornography be made legal as well? In the U.S., a 12 year old boy was caught watching pornography. Should he be punished if he has been attending classes on sex education? If he is punished, I can see a lack of coherency here. If we stretch a bit the argument, should prostitution still be punished? Maybe prostitution should be legalized. And if the techniques taught in sex education fail, meaning, if the girl gets pregnant, maybe she should be allowed to abort. In Spain, they have been pushing for abortion without parental consent. Meaning, a girl can just go to an abortion clinic without her parents knowing it.

Of course, I am being sarcastic here. I am against sex education, pornography, prostitution and abortion.

The Philippines is now treading a dangerous ground. I have been living in Europe for some years now and I know how things are with sex education. I think that economic progress by curbing the population – the “original objective” of the RH – is asking for a very high price. What is the use of economic progress if the children have been corrupted in the process? Who will benefit from this progress if a girl cannot continue studying in high school because she got pregnant? As the saying goes: “Aanhin pa ang damo kung patay na ang kabayo?”

I have granted it as a matter of course that curbing the population growth will bring economic progress. This thesis of the RH is yet to be proven. I’m a financial analyst and I don’t believe in curbing the population growth as a formula for economic progress. I don’t believe that maintaining or reducing the population will bring economic progress. There’s even a statistical study showing that there is no “statistically significant” correlation between population and poverty. Anyway, enough of technicalities.

Going back to the “social costs” of the RH, I argue that sex education is not necessary. It is useless and it will bring worse problems. If it’s designed to reduce unwanted pregnancies, I argue that it will increase unwanted pregnancies. That's easy to prove. There are 100,000 abortions yearly in England. If sex education and if contraception really work, why is there such a high "margin of error"?

Sex is only needed when one gets married. Besides, what’s so difficult with sex? Man has been living on this planet for thousands of years without sex education. They were able to reproduce themselves. Do the dogs need sex education in order to reproduce?

We can see clearly that there is an ideology being imposed on us. That ideology is the “sexual liberation”. It has quite a long history especially in the US. That’s what they are trying to impose through sex education. Sex education is futile. It is nothing but an imposition of the “sexual liberation” ideology of the West. Why such a fuss with sex education when Math and English performance of the students have been declining in the last decade? Could it also be a part of the “Marketing Plan” of the contraceptive companies? (14-VIII-2012)