Teach Your Teenager About Sex (Part 1)
It’s particularly important that you educate your child in the area of sexuality. Check below which book can help you with sex education.
You should start educating your children about sex very early. (Photoxpress)
Four books in the series of Encyclopaedia of Sex Education – from Physiology to Psychology are, without doubt, the necessary reading for every parent. In the books, they will find everything they want to know about sexuality.
In 1973, four French doctors wrote four books about sex education for children and adolescents. They divided them into four age groups and added numerous instructive illustrations. They created a master work that every future parent has to read as well as their children. Your dilemmas about how to respond to your child’s puzzling questions will definitely end with the help of the four books. Let’s start at the beginning.
Sex education for children aged between 7 and 9
The first book is appropriate for early childhood, when your child hasn’t sexually matured yet, which means that he/she doesn’t ask very puzzling questions about sex. For that reason, the first book is written as a story. As a tale about seven-year old twins who visit their auntie together with their parents. The trick is obvious. The auntie is pregnant, which is well illustrated by one of the pictures showing a baby in her belly. Of course, as a drawing appropriate for the age of your child. And everything the twins ask, without doubt, also your children ask. In the next pages, authors explain the difference between a man and woman. Maybe the explanation is a bit too graphic, but it’s provided so as to make it immediately clear to a child that babies aren’t brought by storks, and that a young reader has a clear picture what’s going on. This is followed by a debate about an egg and sperm cell, the presentation of different stages of pregnancy, and childbirth, which is illustrated in a very nice way, but maybe a bit too graphic for such young readers. The second half of the book contains explanations about how a boy and girl develop into a man and a woman, how sexual union occurs and how sometimes twins can also be born. At the end, there’s a beautiful comparison made with animals that also reproduce. In short, sexuality is presented in a very normal and honest way. In the manner it should be presented. Therefore, in a much better way as opposed to a situation when a child hears inappropriate words from an older school friend and gets the wrong picture about sex.
Sex education for children aged between 10 and 13
The second book is somewhat thicker, less childish and, of course, more graphic. Pictures are no longer illustrations, but they’re photographs of female and male sex organs. Texts are still written in the form of a story, but they’re bolder and more interesting. Let’s take a look at the following paragraph to make things clear.
It goes something like this:
“Oh, I have a vagina,” cries out the girl, pleased with herself. “And the opening of the vagina is a small opening that you have between two patches of flesh and is called the female sex organ. And you also have two openings. One for peeing in the front and the other in the rear, which is called the rectum.” The boy asks: “Are my testicles and her ovaries useful? The glands we both have, do they have any significance?”
That’s right, the second book is much more scientific and direct, which means that it explains in detail how a child is conceived and what goes on in the body of a woman and a man. The pictures of the penis and vagina are equal to pictures in all scientific books, which means that authors obviously consider children aged between 10 and 13 to be very curious and just before reaching sexual maturity. While the leading female character has a discussion about the growth of the breasts and te first pubic hair with her mother, the boy chats about semen ejaculation and testicles with his father. In the middle of the book, you can see pictures of the fetus and childbirth as well as breastfeeding, which means that authors also wants to introduce motherhood and everything else that a relationship can bring. They also discuss sexual desire, in the manner that can be understood by a child entering the world of adults, explaining that a woman secretes some sort of a fluid because of experiencing pleasure during arousal and that the penis of a man becomes rigid. Naturally, condoms are also mentioned as well as diaphragms. Therefore, practical advice on 
safe sex and protection against pregnancy. In short, a complete overview of developments from conception to childbirth as well as caring for a child. This is a very instructive and direct book. A book that really deals with all the segments of sex education, even sociological additions where, in a cunning way, authors warn of an unjustified division of roles in society and believe that a woman and man should be equals.
More about sex education for teenagers in the next part of the article!
