The preoccupation with sex is evident in TV programmes, adverts and music videos, which means that whether we like it or not, children are exposed to it.
In the long run, it will serve everybody better if the thick curtain of shame and mystery was lifted off sex.
One of the most eloquent summaries of the culture of silence around sex is a little quote by a three-year-old girl who told her mother walinifanyia tabia mbaya” (they did bad things to me)” in a recent news story. Two boys allegedly defiled her.
Ask any little girl or boy the name for their private parts and they will refer to them by their ridiculous euphemisms like susu, weewee or peepee.
