When asked by their children: “Mom/Dad, where do I come from”, most Chinese parents are reluctant to tell and too shy to pronounce the answer: sex.

Actually, sex education in China should draw attention of adults, especially of parents as children nowadays inclined to grow premature under the effect of the Internet, with so much so materials concerning sex are accessible to all ages. It seems to be the right time for parents to cultivate their sweethearts with the correct and healthy knowledge on sex, instead of allowing the misleading ones on the Internet or obtained through other channels to take leads.

As a female, I will talk about the importance of instructing sex to girls first. There has always been the news that young girls being raped. The reasons behind it, is not only concerned with the raper, but also the innocence of the girl. Some victims don’t even know what the man was doing to them until bad things happen. For example, a friend of mine told me that when she was about the age of nine or ten, never learned of anything about sex or sexual harassment, was playing around her own house, and a stranger man came and cuddled her. At first she thought the man was showing his affection to a pretty child, while then she started to sense danger as the man pressed his lips against hers. She’s lucky that the man did nothing more for some one was coming towards them from far away. The girl dared not to tell her parents about being humiliated but such experience never fade away.

Knowledge is the weapon, and knowledge on sex can be a good weapon for girls to be conscious of the danger of sex harassment and take action before falling victims to some bad guys. If you don’t want your children to be Tess of the D'Urbervilles, don’t consider innocence or purity as a good property of children, it is another version of ignorance.

The second reason I can give is that teaching your children the right stuff before battery of extorted information and pictures and videos and games online deprive the child’s right to know that sex is not purely for enjoyment and a relief of desire, but a holy experience that guarantees the continuation of human species. Tell them it is not a secret thing and should done in a hidden way, but should be conducted in the right time with the right person for the right purposes. It just needs a little courage of the parents to say so, but it might change the life of your children and of the others’. The tendency to wrong-doings and extorted desires mostly arise in childhood, especially when rational and accurate education is scarce.

So, next time, when your children ask you something about sex, don’t falter or shy away, or made up a story to cheat them, do some research and find a proper way to give them a right impression about the normal process of human life. Also when the school is having a biological class, don’t let alone your students snicker at the naked pictures of man and woman on the textbook, but teach them something really useful.

Children deserve to know better about sex than anyone else.

This article is written on the perspective of children,(though I am already a grown-up), so dear parents, what’s your view?