Vast majority of young people don’t get to learn about this topic without being heavily stigmatized, there is no judgment-free zones to learn about sex effortlessly. There is no nuance in creating that space which tend to facilitate sex education. Almost everyone shies away from the discussion especially young people, because the society does not validate them or approve of them learning about sex, which leaves the saying that when you get there you will learn it, as opposed to pre-details which are very essentials to help couple grow in that space. It is causing societal malfunctioning which is detriment to transcending growth in marital affairs.
In Africa and some parts of Asia, especially in India, where early marriages are at its very peak, young girls don’t get proper information about sex before meeting their husbands, they barely know their partners, this is because in almost all the occasion it is an arranged marriage, without consent on the part of the girls. When the times for conjugal fulfillment the whole experience becomes strange and weird for them, absence of sex education and judgment-free zones create that vacuum, in all ramifications sex it is and should be consensual, safe and pleasurable, when these are missing that feeling of unguarded space will began to arose, often time leading to divorce and acerbic separation of the couple.
Families have become very naïve knowingly preventing their kids from learning what they should know, they have to create enabling environment for them to learn while they are guided throughout the process until they are refined enough to know what it means to take responsibility of their actions. It is thought provoking conversation which ought to start within the family spreading across the society, from families young people are denied of that judgment-free zones to learn about sex, they are forbidden to start or raise conversation pertaining to sex, they will be admonished hastily.
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The denial of judgment-free zones to learn about sex has created marital trend known as marital rape, the earliest debate was whether a woman can be raped inside her marriage, while they are divergent opinions as to the subject matter, the better view irrespective of marriage stands to be that, in the absence of consent, safe and pleasurable sex, any other means used to obtain or indulge in sexual intercourse could be termed to mean rape. And this is the standing order, where the conversation is coveted such violence and unwholesome practices become the order of the day as opposed to the most safest and better process.
There should be a thought process for initiating sex conversations, ranging from families to schools and to the wider society, it is collaborative efforts to maintain and preserve sustainable values, which is imbedded on the core existentiality of humanity as opposed to disruptive orders. Lack of environment for learning and creating judgment-free zones to learn about sex can lead to sexual violence in many homes, when sex education and ambience not to be judgmental is encouraged, it will further create awareness on sex, birth control, pregnancy and HIV/AIDS.
