Question

How, why, and when should children receive education about sex?  Include in your response references to lecture/course material to date, age(s) when it should be introduced and why, an examination of how you've developed your opinion, a counter perspective to your opinion, and summary remark. (You may, of course, present an opinion that sex education should not be offered and people left to 'figure it out on their own.")

Answer 1

Education about sex - ​The mean of sex education is not about how to do sex, birth control or sexual disorder. The education about sex is belong to some kind of basic information about physical changes according to gender, mental changes according to age, human sexual antomy, harmonal changes, sexual reproduction etc.

Time to recieve education about sex - ​The sexual development begin from the age of post Childhood so that the best time to provide sex education may be age of post childhood or pre adolescent. According to Sigmund Freud, the psychosexual development start from birth but the age of genital stage when puberty start can be best age for sex about education.

Why Education about sex ? - ​Evidence says that the education about sex is very important factor for social hygiene as well as decrease the rate of untended pregnancies among teenager and also precautions of sexual disceases.

Counter perspective - On the behalf of cultural and age factors, some societies believes that education about sex can tend to sexual development before physical and mental development. The students may try to get the knowledge in different ways and psychosexual disorder can develop as well.

References - SIECUS, the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States​ reports, UNFPA, James Mandigo And Chris Markham (June 3, 2013). "The place to learn about health and sex education is school​'' etc.