WAFIQ (International Women’s Alliance for Family Institution and Quality Education) refers to the letter by Dr Kamal Kenny that appeared in The Star on July 2 (“Sex ed empowers our young”; online at bit.ly/star_sexed).
There is no doubt that the crime he highlighted, of a boy being sodomised by a father, is shocking and requires intervention. We welcome education on reproductive biology, sexually transmitted infections (STI) and how to recognise safe and unsafe touch. However, we completely disagree on using the Comprehensive Sexual Education (CSE) syllabus as promoted by the International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF), not just because of the questionable origin and philosophy of CSE and the IPPF, but also because the “rights-based”, or rather what should be called the “desire-based”, approach to sex education will not yield a successful outcome.
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