Japheth Ayiekow

Nairobbi, Kenya

If we don’t teach them, then who will?

Sex should be done and enjoyed in privacy, I agree. In African homes and specifically in the majority of Kenyan homes, sex is viewed as a taboo subject that can’t be discussed inside our homesteads with children and parents. Yet we all are outcomes of sexual intercourse. You see, we live in a world of two different generations. One side, is the curious experimental teenagers, the other side traditional conservative parents. One is secretly exploiting a taboo subject, the other is afraid and ashamed of talking or even listening to it. We need to be daring and courageous enough to talk about reproductive sexual health to save our teenagers from drowning in the ocean of unwanted pregnancies and STI’s. I believe it’s not too late to initiate these conversations in our homes, religious and education institutions to avoid cases where more than one hundred thousand under aged school girls in 2020 were reported pregnant. Pregnancies that weren’t planned for. If we don’t teach them, then who will?