The Silence That Screams: Why Sex Education is a Lifeline, Not a Lesson?

- Luna, XII

Imagine teaching a child the alphabet but leaving out a few letters- just the ones you find uncomfortable. They grow up forming words, building sentences, but something always feels incomplete. They stumble in conversations, missing meanings, misreading intentions. They don’t even know what they don’t know. This is what happens when we deny children of sex education. The absence of sex education in childhood has left generations struggling with misunderstanding, fear, and silence—silence that has cost too many their dignity, safety, and even their lives. We live in a world where people are afraid to speak about their problems, where victims of abuse hesitate to come forward, not because their pain is small, but because their voice has been buried under shame. How many stories have gone untold? How many cries were mistaken for consent? How many wounds were covered by the weight of societal silence? When we do not teach children about their rights, their bodies, and the meaning of consent, we create victims before they even know they are at risk. And when we fail to educate boys about respect, boundaries, and accountability, we allow perpetrators to grow in the shadows of ignorance.

The result? A world where rape cases rise, where abuse is whispered about but rarely confronted, where survivors are silenced while criminals walk free. A world where people ask, “Why didn’t they say anything?” instead of “Why didn’t we listen before it happened?”

Sex education is all about power, protection, and prevention. It teaches a child that their body is their own. It teaches a teenager that "no" is a complete sentence. It teaches a society that silence is the greatest enabler of violence.To educate is to empower. To inform is to prevent. To speak is to save. Let us not wait for whispers of confusion to turn into echoes of regret. The lesson must begin—not in fear, not in shame, but in truth.