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Youths need sex education

9 January 2005, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
By Oliur Rahman Chowdhury Mohammadpur, Dhaka
9 January 2005, 18:00 PM
We are now in dire need to introduce sex education in our schools and academic institutions. With the alarming rise in incidences of sexually transmitted diseases and emergence of an AIDS pandemic, sex education has come to the forefront and can no longer be considered a "taboo" .

Proper sex education can contain the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and eliminate ignorance. The children and adolescents are receiving wrong sex education from the Internet, pornographic books and commercial sex workers.

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