Today, sex is everywhere, on television, in movies and it is plastered all over advertising and it seems that the only place the subject is still considered taboo is in conversation between parents and children, revealed family planning experts.
At a 3-Day Capacity Building Workshop on Investigative journalism being organized by Pathfinder International, experts said often, parents are just as reluctant as their children to broach the subject.
In her book Beyond the Big Talk, health educator Debra Haffner says: “Many parents have told me that they bought their child a book on sexuality or puberty, left it in the preteen’s room, and never discussed it again.”
Haffner says the message to children is clear: “We want you to know about your body and about sex; we just don’t want to talk to you about it.”
While parents find it so difficult to have sexual discussion with their children, the Lagos state government has however stepped up by building youth friendly centers…
