Sexuality Education

Sexuality is a central part of human development across the life span. It includes different issues and activities at different stages of life. As such, comprehensive sexuality education is important throughout life. Comprehensive sexuality education refers to a formative and informative process that enables each individual at each stage of development to understand and accept one’s sexuality as an integral part of one’s emotional and physical health.

Young children are interested in learning about their bodies and about how babies are made and born. They tend to ask their parents for guidance, often in the most fun and surprising ways. It is in this stage of development that one’s sexual preferences are usually first felt (even though often only disclosed or made public much later on ...