{"id":6542,"date":"2015-07-31T23:46:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T18:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?page_id=6542"},"modified":"2015-08-01T06:27:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T00:57:12","slug":"about-talksexuality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/about-talksexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>#TalkSexuality is a campaign run by TARSHI with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youthkiawaaz.com\/category\/campaigns\/talksexuality\/\">Youth Ki Awaaz<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>There&#8217;s An Elephant In The Room<\/em><\/h3>\n<div class=\"lead text-center \">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There comes a point in time during our growing up years, when curiosity gets the best of us. \u00a0The icing on the cake: any conversation that has any remote connection to sexuality is usually evaded, be it in educational institutions or within our very own homes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Such evasiveness leads many to engage with whatever information is available and accessible to them on the internet, through friends, in magazines or any other source one can get their hands on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/talksexuality.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-6543\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/talksexuality-932x1024.jpg\" alt=\"talksexuality\" width=\"446\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s Not Just About Sex!<\/h4>\n<p>Sex and sexuality are often understood to be synonymous, leading to many misconceptions. For example, sexuality education is often misunderstood as \u2018sex education\u2019 or \u2018permitting experimentation among children\u2019 based on the fear that more the information given, more likely that young people will experiment and engage in sexual behavior. However, studies like\u00a0<em>Sexuality Education and Young People\u2019s Sexual Behaviour: A Review of Studies<\/em>, commissioned in 1997 by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Global Programme on AIDS have shown evidence to the contrary.<\/p>\n<p>The key point is that sexuality is a lot more than just sex alone. Sexuality encompasses not only sex but also the construct of gender, body image, consent, intimacy, sexual activities, sexual abuse and harassment, sexual identities, pleasure and fantasy, relationships and emotions. Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) aims at treating sexuality as a part of life, not something to be feared and trivialized.<\/p>\n<p>In our conversations with both young people and older people recalling their younger days, we found that common sources of information related to sex and sexuality were\u00a0listed as friends, movies, magazines, newspapers, and advertisements and nowadays of course, the internet.<\/p>\n<p>While these resources do give information and initiate conversations around sexuality, most people describe the information derived as confusing, conflicting and incomplete.\u00a0Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) is essential for young people to make\u00a0informed choices and protect them from abuse, violence and infections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tarshi.net\/yka\/\"><strong>Visit the #TalkSexuality Microsite!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#TalkSexuality is a campaign run by TARSHI with Youth Ki Awaaz.\u00a0 There&#8217;s An Elephant In The Room There comes a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6543,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6542","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6542"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6582,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6542\/revisions\/6582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}