THE CONDOM CULTURE
By Olivia Phiri
Use condoms every time you have sex, is what most youths of today are growing up hearing. Personally I find nothing wrong with it. With the rising figures of people having the HIV virus it is imperative that people especially those in the sexually active age group be informed about the consistent and correct use of condoms.
People argue that this stress on youths to use condom has promoted their need to have sex, the truth is that kids are doing it. The culture now in Uganda is that parents are supposed to pack at least one condom in the child’s school bag when they go to school.
The country which was most hard hit in Africa with AIDS has learnt its lesion on and has stopped being discrete and pretentious.
Sexuality in any person starts very early in childhood, and unlike other things in life does not need practice or lesions; it is a natural instinct, like breastfeeding and excretion.
Whether parents like it or not kids have sex, parents may get to discover only if they accidentally walk in on the kids or if pregnancy occurs, if you are unlucky, you may never know.
Talking to children from an early age about sex and the politics of HIV/AIDS is very vital. Correct and unrestricted conversations should be allowed and given enough time. Parents sometimes only want to talk when the child has been fed with too much wrong information from peers. But nevertheless efforts should be made to correct misconceptions the child may have.
Congratulations should be forwarded though to the male youths of today. They of all sexually active members of society have developed a tendency to use the condom.
By Olivia Phiri
Use condoms every time you have sex, is what most youths of today are growing up hearing. Personally I find nothing wrong with it. With the rising figures of people having the HIV virus it is imperative that people especially those in the sexually active age group be informed about the consistent and correct use of condoms.
People argue that this stress on youths to use condom has promoted their need to have sex, the truth is that kids are doing it. The culture now in Uganda is that parents are supposed to pack at least one condom in the child’s school bag when they go to school.
The country which was most hard hit in Africa with AIDS has learnt its lesion on and has stopped being discrete and pretentious.
Sexuality in any person starts very early in childhood, and unlike other things in life does not need practice or lesions; it is a natural instinct, like breastfeeding and excretion.
Whether parents like it or not kids have sex, parents may get to discover only if they accidentally walk in on the kids or if pregnancy occurs, if you are unlucky, you may never know.
Talking to children from an early age about sex and the politics of HIV/AIDS is very vital. Correct and unrestricted conversations should be allowed and given enough time. Parents sometimes only want to talk when the child has been fed with too much wrong information from peers. But nevertheless efforts should be made to correct misconceptions the child may have.
Congratulations should be forwarded though to the male youths of today. They of all sexually active members of society have developed a tendency to use the condom.
posted by Olivia Phiri at 9:07 AM
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excellent piece
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