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Aspects of Sex Education

1. Sex and reproductive health:

The comprehensive sexuality education attempts to assist each individual
maintain healthy sexual and reproductive sexual behaviour. It informs the

people about healthy conception, birth control, safe abortion, and preventive
measures from sexually transmitted diseases.

2. Gender

Gender refers to the roles and behaviour decided socially and culturally for both
males and females. Various measures are adopted in order to avoid gender
based violence.

3. Violence

Violence refers to the condition in which a person behaves making physical
and mental offence to the other person.

4. Sex right of each citizen

Every individual has the right to make gender identity based on his/her
willingness. Everyone can identify as being male, female or third gender. So the
exercise of the rights to make sex identification, its protection and promotion

belong to the domains of this education.

5. Recreation and entertainment

Every individual is free to take the joy through sex. All the ways including sexual
intercourse in order to enjoy sexually fall under this domain.

6. Diversity

Every individual is different. Such differences may be physical, financial,
religious, cultural, etc. Similarly, they may be males, females or third gender.

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