Coss Posted August 11, 2010 Report Share Posted August 11, 2010 NSM sets up the first 'Sex Museum' in Asia {unashamedly taken from Thai Visa} BANGKOK (NNT) -- The National Science Museum (NSM) joins forces with the UNESCO in Bangkok and the Thai health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth) to launch the first ‘Sex Museum’ in Asian region as another preventive channel of adolescent pregnancy problem. NSM Director Pichai Sonchaeng cited the Sex Museum was founded with the aim to raise awareness about sexual well-being among youth through this kind of informal learning approach. According to the Bureau of Registration Administration under the Interior Ministry, children and youth have got premature pregnancy with the average figure found at 262 persons per day. The problem mostly derives from the lack of knowledge of parents to explain to their children, while those kids also prefer to seek the advice from their friends to parents and they may get misleading information. Incorrect knowledge of birth control methods is another cause of the problem. The Museum will be the learning center for youths and parents featuring six educational zones include introduction zone, love & lust zone in which the content is linked to science, human relations and communications, sexual relations, birth giving & birth control, sexual transmitted diseases and alternative zone for individual sexual well-being. The Director of UNESCO in Bangkok stated that statistics in 2008 made by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDs (UNAIDS) found 40% of youth at 15-24 of age still lacked knowledge and comprehension on HIV which led to the higher number of adolescent pregnancy including violence against women in the society. These information prove that the new creative and attractive presentation forms in sex education are required to raise the youth’s awareness. -- NNT 2010-08-11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous God Posted August 12, 2010 Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 Good friend of mine has been working on this. Except there's one in China already The National Science Museum isn;t as popular as others but is pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted August 12, 2010 Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 Hi, Of course they could also just introduce sexual education into the normal high school curriculum. If I am not mistaken this topic is pretty much ignored in school. Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioman Posted August 12, 2010 Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 Normal high school maybe not but Thai private schools do cover it. My 9 y.o. daughter has already done basic human biology. Gotta love kids matter of fact way of explaining just how they got here once they've got all the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted August 12, 2010 Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 Have they got a section on khatoeys? If not, they'll be demanding one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khun_Kong Posted August 12, 2010 Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 ... The Director of UNESCO in Bangkok stated that statistics in 2008 made by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDs (UNAIDS) found 40% of youth at 15-24 of age still lacked knowledge and comprehension on HIV which led to the higher number of adolescent pregnancy including violence against women in the society. These information prove that the new creative and attractive presentation forms in sex education are required to raise the youth’s awareness. ... Uhhh, these information prove that the new Director of UNESCO in Bangkok is a goddamn moron! The lack of knowledge and comprehension on HIV leads to an increase in adolescent pregnancy and violence against women? Maybe just a bad translation. Maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous God Posted August 12, 2010 Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 Actually there is planned a outreach program, bringing schools in, BUT the main problem is with Min Ed allowing students to go, regardless what they will say for good PR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exileexpat Posted August 12, 2010 Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 No actually it is covered very well. Both in Middle school health and high school Biology ( not all kids take this stream) But if the crusty old teacher does not cover the topic then the kids are up shit creek without a paddle ( Where is shit creek anyways?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted August 12, 2010 Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 J3-XDgv0jrk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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