[Little Spoiler Alert] If you have watched PK by now, then there is a scene in the movie where Aamir Khan talks about condom openly. And people run away from him. Like many other strong social messages in the movie, this too was something that caught my eyes and ears.
Why is there so much of hesitation in talking about issues like sex and condoms? Why do we always change channels whenever an AIDS awareness commercial or a Condom commercial comes up while watching Television with family? Why is it such a Taboo?
When Aamir Khan asks Boman in the movie that why people shy away after seeing the condom packets, Boman tells him that people don’t like discussing private matters openly. To which Aamir says these people are the only ones who announce to the world during their marriages that they are going to marry someone with whom they are going to have sex. Then why shy away from condoms if sex is what it is being used for?
Sex is inevitable. Everyone knows about it. Everyone does it. But nobody talks about it. Why?
Till when are we going to keep running away from this topic? With increasing child abuses, talking about sex has become more important than ever. Even children now need to know about that. Knowledge is the best defense.
It seems like the world has a problem with the word “SEX”, but believe me, this problem can make our lives more problematic. Stop making up stories now when your child asks you that from where do children come. It’s high time that you start getting down to the truth.
People of age are being taught how to put on condoms in other parts of the world, and our country is still struggling to talk about it.
A child can only talk about such issues with their peers. I remember talking about such issues with my friends since I was in my 5th grade. And the guy/girl who had something to talk about it used to become the most popular student in the school.
But you know what the problem with that is? Kids get wrong information. They don’t talk about it with their parents, and the whole point of sex education is lost. I don’t say that we should teach 5th graders to put on condoms. NO! That won’t be age appropriate. But we need to break these barriers, so that those kids can come and talk their minds out with their parents and get the right information.
Teenage is a difficult time, especially with those puberty and stuffs. And more than anything, someone needs to tell those teenagers about their body and the change that they are going through.
PK has really brought many social issues on forefront, and I felt that this was one of them. We really do need to leave off our shyness and start talking about “SEX” openly. It’s not a TABOO!
Tell me, what do you think about it?
