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For the HRD minister, one word and its derivates cannot be allowed in sex education – the word ‘sex’.
The word is such a taboo that the HRD ministry forced an expert panel to shorten a recommendation of lessons against unprotected sex down to one sentence to avoid using of “sex” and “sexual”, The Telegraph reported.
The panel’s original draft included half a page on misguided knowledge on unprotected sex and the adolescent youths’ vulnerability to sexually-transmitted diseases.
A panel member told The Telegraph that the expert panel agreed with the ministry’s advice because it agreed that the word “‘sexual’ might offend somebody.” It wasn’t made clear who specifically would be offended by the document which would be sent to state government schools and school boards.
The final document does use the word sex but only to define biological identities –man and woman.
(Source: The Telegraph)
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