In a very welcome and long awaited move, the UGC announced last Thursday that ‘Sex Education’ would become mandatory teaching at all engineering institutions, across the country.
There had previously been heated debates in the parliament, as well as in the UGC as to whether there was any need to introduce this very controversial aspect of education at an undergraduate level.
But when a delegation from the Sex Education Execution Committee (or SEXC for short) visited a reputed north Indian engineering college (you know which one!), they were, in their own words, ‘goddamn f*&^ing shocked!’
One of the anthropologists, a Mr.Ramalingam had this to say, ‘I’d heard reports before, on how bad the situation was in our country’s engineering colleges, but frankly, I’d never expected this. To be very honest, I’ve seen pieces of toast with more sexual maturity than these engineers.’
While Mr. Ramalingam’s questionable breakfast habits might be the subject of some other FNT story, we just had to know more about this. When we prodded Mr.Ramalingam to further explain his very hardened stance against the engineers, he responded by saying, ‘Well let me explain it to you this way – during our routine surveys among the students, we interact with them regarding matters of a er…well, a sexual nature. And so, when we talked to the girls, we really couldn’t get a straight answer out of them because any time we mentioned the word “sex”, they invariably responded by breaking into an uncontrollable fit of giggles and extreme blushing.”
‘And the boys?’ we probed further.
Mr. Ramalingam straightened up and continued, ‘Well, with the boys, as soon as we mentioned that we were from the Sex Education Execution Committee, they would all invariably lose their train of thought at the word “sex” and then just say something like, “Sex? Where?!”
So as you can see, the situation is very messed up.’
When we talked to some of the students ourselves about this development, the question on most of their lips was, ‘What will be the Lecture-Tutorial-Practical distribution?!’
Clearly, the situation IS messed up and calls for immediate intervention and rectification.
We, at FNT, salute the SEXC, and wish them the very best of luck in their rollout of this very ambitious and important plan.
