I recently read some comments on how Maia Lee’s interview with The Electric New Paper was shameful. Ironically, the title of the report was “I almost died of SHAME”

I think to be accurate, these people found her leaking details of her sexual life “shameful”, rather than the act itself. On one hand, I admit that leaking your private life out in the public isn’t something I agree on, on the other hand, it’s just SEX.

I think Singapore’s society have been far too repressed when it comes to the topic of sex. It’s unhealthy for people to be repressed about something so beautiful and natural to us. Even Christianity, a very uptight community doesn’t find sex offensive. In fact, recently a Dallas pastor challenged married hetrosexual couples to a 7 days sex challenge. There’s no shame in the act of sex.

I know what some of you might be thinking at this point, Maia Lee’s sex life. But that’s not really the topic I want to go into, because her sex life is not really for us to judge.

I wish that the government would do more sexual education in Singapore schools, to educate these young little rose buds about the birds and bees.

Proponents of comprehensive sex education, which include the American Psychological Association, the American Medical Association,the National Association of School Psychologists, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Public Health Association, the Society for Adolescent Medicine and the American College Health Association, argue that sexual behavior after puberty is a given, and it is therefore crucial to provide information about the risks and how they can be minimized; they also claim that denying teens such factual information leads to unwanted pregnancies and STIs.

Taken from Wikipedia’s entry on Sex Education

It is the government’s responsibility to educate and mould a nation of people that practices safe sex and healthy living. I understand that Asian societies are more conservative when it comes to topics such as sex, but do we really want our society to make SEX into such an unspeakable topic that even healthy hetrosexual married couples have problems with their sex life and have no one to confide in because it’s too embarassing?

I’m not promoting for more SEX in this city. I’m against having pornography legalized for the same reason why I feel Cartoon Network should stop showing sleezy teen flicks that talk about sex all day when their target audience is mostly under 10years old.

Of course, it is difficult where to draw the line when it comes to such sensitive issues. But we should and we can definitely do more to bring awareness to topics related to sex such as contraceptives and HIV prevention.

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1. I’m DEFINITELY for more sex in Singapore. We are one of the lowest sex rates in the world did you know?

   Comment by Dez — December 11, 2008 @ 6:07 pm

    

2. i think so too, lets have sex sometime?
   =P
   ur beautiful =P

   Comment by nate — December 26, 2008 @ 7:55 pm

    

3. LOL

   Thank, but no thanks

   Comment by Priss — December 28, 2008 @ 2:25 am

    

4. Cool. People in Singapore are definitely freaky about admitting what they too do and like – Sex. Stupid.
   And let me add – there seems to be nowhere in Singapore where u can have open-air sex properly, what with the shameful comments of the all-righteous old fogeys (who do it or wish to do it themselves anyway), and camera-phones spies everywhere who will post ur pic up as soon as they can, and u’ll see urself in the headline the next day. Therefore, sex seems doomed to be monotonous in closed door rooms… garr..

   Seriously, a couple of years ago, I saw this New Paper headline report about a pair of students kissing in the MRT, and I tot it ridiculous that the camera-phone-taken photo actually made headlines. CRAP. What? U can’t even kiss in public???

   Comment by Kat — February 12, 2009 @ 3:25 pm

    

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