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Whatever Happened to Sex Education in the Philippines?

Being forcibly sworn to chastity isn’t parallel to a comprehensive sex-ed curriculum. Have we learned nothing from our skyrocketing teenage pregnancy rates?

The words "penis," "vagina," and "sex" sounded crass to me when I was growing up. Saying them was "unbecoming" of me as a lady. They earned me some sharp looks and thick, unspoken judgy eyes. No one, however, ever bothered to explain ...

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