Fast forward, now I am in Grade 8. We had a huge library in my area, I used to enjoy reading all sorts of novels. Already by then, I was reading Sidney Sheldon, Harold Robbins etc and had gained some amount of knowledge about the birds and bees. But my best friend, same age as

Then came 11th and 12th, as I chose Biology - gained a little more knowledge. Cable TV entered my home in 11th and I ended up getting some more information by watching movies on HBO. Nothing much was explicitly shown, but it was enough to understand. And the knowledge peaked

But I was lucky. I atleast had some sort of good understanding in 8th grade as my bestie's cousin was quite knowledgeable and those trashy novels helped me. But there were quite a few girls in my medical college who didn't have much clue and understood it only when they were

And you know what the sad part of this is?? We were about 20 girls and chit chatting in our hostel room, in 1st year of college. And we were discussing casually and the topic went to sexual abuse. Almost all of us 20 girls were sexually exploited at some time or the other by

And then we became older. Eve teasing was quite rampant in Hyd in those days and us travelling in those crowded RTC buses, we faced lot of groping and getting inappropriately by boys and men. But by then our instincts had kicked in and we kind of knew what to do. Some of us

None of us informed our parents, because none of us felt comfortable to speak this to our parents. We neither spoke about our childhood misadventures and neither did we speak about the eve teasing in buses. Why?? Because none of our parents ever spoke to us anything about our

Were only girls abused? No... I have a few good male friends and they were sexually exploited too. By whom? By their male hostel wardens, their older male cousins, thw auto wallah, the gardener, next door uncle, some older females too in exceptional cases. And were they ok

Why am I writing all this?? Sex education is the need of the hour today. Today's kids are hypersexualised at a very young age. Children around 8-9 years old know everything about sex....and I mean everything. It's just that, you the parent doesn't know that they know. Our

How many parents know what their school going teens are doing? What sort of clothes they are wearing? With whom they are roaming around? Are the channels of communication open between you and your child? If you have an open and friendly communication with your young children,

@drsunita02 Thank you :) Almost all women are sexually exploited at some point of time. Men are too. I wonder if this still the case with kids who are teens or younger.😐

@thesneha_ Yes ma'am. I still keep hearing. I have heard of men masturbating in public when they see young girls walking or chitchatting. First hand information given to me. Traumatized the girls.

@drsunita02 Oof, that moment of embarrassment is so real. It's a tough question for any parent, but that awkwardness can stick with a kid.

@drsunita02 Haha....me also asked the same Q? but to my grandma, when im in my 9th/10th standard.... But my grandma showed me when buffalo giving birth to its baby, in our shed...thats it, not even a single word she explained me... And behind that tree was the shed...

@drsunita02 I think sex education day should be celebrated by parents in school. Can get help from professionals what to teach. They are doing all junk days like something else. This is very important. I had a very bad experience at age of 5 or less by my uncle's vehicle driver and cleaner

@drsunita02 Very sorry to hear about your abuse mam 😩😩😩

@drsunita02 Sex education should start from parents, they should guide and educate children as per age.

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