The church and religious community need to stop being afraid to talk about sex.
That is the contention from Dr. Gerry Seale, Chief Executive Officer and General Secretary, Evangelical Association of the Caribbean, as he shared findings of the Evangelical Youth Survey with those gathered at the Hilton Hotel for the Faith-Based HIV Symposium sponsored by the Religious Advisory Committee on National Affairs, UNAIDS and the Faith-Based Committee of the National HIV/AIDS Commission.
The survey was answered by 405 young people from various denominations across the island. Of these respondents, he revealed that one per cent indicated that they were HIV positive.
I think the evidence of recent history indicates that there is great danger in talking about sex too much. The generations before mine got 5 minutes of sex education and it worked quite well – all children born to decent families. Now, we get sex education by the shipload and there has never been such a population less capable of dealing with sex.