Sex In The City

Was a little down after my presentation today. I think some disagreed with my views. My presentation was about social values in the media. Among the things I touched on was sex. I stressed that it was against our values and that we should reject messages encouraging such activities.

Anyway, the girl after me presented her topic. Although it was another title, she mention she had nothing against premarital sex! I think it was like a smack on my face! Wow, that was hard.

Earlier my friend, who is Indonesian but has been here for 7 years told me she was rather surprised by the attitude of the people here, especially students towards the issue of sex. According to her, a report once showed that 4 out of 5 youths who are in a relationship engage in sex. My Goodness. She even cited her secondary school friend who publicly said he had done it as soon as he reach 16, the minimum age to do so here. My mouth could drop straight to the floor

But I could not be anymore surprised by this. The university newspaper featured sex in the hostels 2 weeks ago. They were asking if sex should be prohibited or not. At the moment, it is not clearly stated. But students response was totally way of. Some say we shouldn't even be thinking of it, but rather encouraging safe sex. They could sell condoms in the campus supermarket! I dunno how to describe my response to that!

Well, I'm totally speechless. But one thing I found out is that the Singaporean society is very different from Melaka's. Its a minority to have never been in a relationship before, what more pure. you know what I mean...