Help break taboos on sexuality - Lecturer

Traditional rulers have been urged to help in breaking taboos on discussions of sexuality and sexual reproductive health issues among teenagers.

Mr. Daniel Buor, a Senior Lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), observed that such taboos, have succeeded in denying teenagers appropriate knowledge about their own sexual reproductive system, making them victims to various Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs).

The lecturer said the incidences of rape, defilement and the escalation of STDs and HIV/AIDs, especially among the youth, could have either been avoided or reduced if children were educated on their sexuality. Mr Buor advised parents to contribute to help save the youth from the AIDs

pandemic and other sexually related diseases. They can do this by discussing and educating their children about their sexual reproductive system. Mr. Buor urged agencies engaged in AIDs projects, to re-focus their emphasis on strategies directed at making people appreciate the importance of using condoms in their sexual activities and the need to keep to their partners.

Miss Constance Boakye, a Project Assistant of the PPAG, appealed to men to take keen interest in studying their own sexuality and cease the wrong habit of always shifting blame for infertility onto their wives since men could equally.