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Where are millennials getting information about sex from? Is it porn or sex education? According to a survey done by Vitamin Stree, most millennials learnt about sex before they turned 13 – but much of their knowledge was from porn.
The survey was conducted on 2,500 millennials, both men and women, and they opened up about their deepest, darkest sex-related secrets.
Sex is one of the most taboo topics in our country; we all know that it exists somewhere, but never acknowledge its presence in our families. Parents shudder when they are asked about the topic and thus the sex education-deprived generation resorts to the internet. And the internet can often mislead.
Although the Indian education department has finally woken up to the frantic calls of children and has introduced a sex ed course starting from class 1, what about the generation that went without any of it and are called ‘millennials’ today?
According to Pornhub, Indians are the third-largest consumers of porn. The Vitamin Stree survey, however, suggests that 91% of men watched porn three to four times in a week and 65% of women watched porn, while 34% of them watched it three to four times a week.
Although the percentage of women watching porn may be going up, that may not necessarily mean that they are enjoying what they are watching.
Traditional porn is often offensive and depicts women almost solely as the pleasure giver rather than the pleasure receivers.
If sex is a taboo, masturbation is an even bigger taboo. And women masturbating is what nightmares are made of, for our society anyway. So, if the society thinks that women are ignorant about self-pleasure giving techniques, are they at least getting orgasms?
But doesn’t faking orgasms egg the partner on to do things the wrong way?
We are the second most populated country in the world but our lack of sex education is pushing the young to learn about sex from the internet. Internet may be a vast resource but it can become counter-productive when they fall prey to porn that can lead to sexually violent behaviour and unrealistic sexual expectations.
The way to initiate sex education cannot be a blanket ban on porn websites, it has to start with sex education and early.
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Published: 18 Jul 2019,07:15 PM IST