Sex education has become part of regular high school lessons in the Philippines for the first time. The lessons on sex are included in regular science and health studies. The secretary of Education Mona Valisno said that officials would study whether such lessons were also appropriate for younger pupils.

“They should know these things, about the body and how to protect it instead of learning about it on the Internet,” Valisno said. Church leaders in the devoutly Catholic country immediately hit back at the plan, saying the state had no business to be talking to youngsters about sex. (more…)

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