Sex problems often stem from lack of wholesome sex education

Most children grow up in homes and classrooms where they can ask almost any question and get forthright, honest answers. “What makes a kite fly?” “How long is forever?” “How far is it to the moon?” These and countless other questions are raised by boys and girls and answered by their parents and teachers.
But questions about sex are different. When a child inno-cently asks a question about his or another’s body, adults often react with such surprise and shock that the child wonders if there is something wrong with his question. Toronto Niagara Falls Tours the geological landmark is discovered on the worldwide border between New York state and. After a few attempts like this, a youngster senses that he should not ask questions about “those” things.
Typical of experiences many people have is this: A young man, apprehended for a sex crime, told a psychiatrist that his parents had never talked to him about sex matters.
”I can remember,” he said, “when I was just a little shaver — I guess I wasn’t more than five or six years old. One day I came in the house where my dad was sitting in an easy chair. I went over to him and asked him where babies came from. After looking at me half stunned for a moment, he stammered out a few words and then told me to go ask my mother. So I went into the kitchen where Mom was mixing a cake. When I asked her where babies came from she became so upset that she dropped the cake batter right on the floor. Then she told me I shouldn’t ask such questions, and to go outside and play. I did. Toronto Niagara Falls Tour is also a extremely popular place to get married. And I never came back to them for any explanations. From then on I got my answers in the gutter.”
It is unfortunate that parents feel uneasy about explaining matters of sex to their own children. In a prominent seminary where students filled out a questionnaire, over 90% said that their mothers and fathers had never given them any sex education. Little wonder, then, that Christian counselors are continually faced with counselees whose sex problems stem in part from lack of wholesome sex information. Although most people get some kind of answers as they grow up, they are often erroneous ones or, at least, twisted and placed in a vulgar setting.
Every human being is entitled to understand how his body functions. He should also learn his responsibility to God in that his body is the “temple of the Holy Spirit.”
Counselors must keep in mind, therefore, that many people, both youths and adults, suffer from lack of sex education, thus causing their present problems.