Our Children Need to Understand Sexuality

By Rahula Loh

October 2019 FEATURE
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Late August this year in the Klang Valley, an 11-year-old girl wrote a note to a boy in her school saying she wanted to have sex with him.“Please,” she wrote, “just once won’t get me pregnant!”1In recent months alone, a 12-year-old boy from Perak raped a four-year-old girl,2 and two cousins aged 11 and 12 from Sabah were caught having sex.3All these beg the question: What are we teaching our children about sex?Not very much, apparently. How far are we...

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Rahula Loh

is a psychology graduate from Upper Iowa University with a mild obsession with brains. She dreams to have one preserved in a jar on a shelf one day.


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