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Students cry foul over Singapore sexuality workshop
(DPA)
29 January 2006
SINGAPORE - A workshop at a Singapore junior college sparked uproar
among students for rejecting contraception, abortion and embryonic
stem-cell research, The Sunday Times reported.
Anderson Junior College engaged the church-based Family Life
Society to hold the four-hour workshop for all second-year
students.
Complaints have been posted on Internet diaries, or blogs, and an
online forum started by a disgruntled student attracted at least
120 comments. School officials also received negative
feedback.
Those conducting the workshop did not clearly state the source of
their opinions and instead attempted to spread their beliefs to
everyone attending by asking everyone, regardless of their
individuals beliefs or religion, to write down things like, I
must condemn masturbation and in-vitro fertilization, Tay Wei
Kiat said in his posting.
It seemed like I was being brainwashed, said another student
going by his online moniker Cygig.
The workbook the students were given appeared to promote the
organizations beliefs rather than present fact, he wrote.
Regarding contraception, the programme workshop was cited as
saying, The sterilized sexual act is not much different in its
meaning from an act of mutual masturbation whereby the couple seeks
to use each other to derive sexual pleasure.
Under Ministry of Education guidelines, schools are expected to
provide eight hours of sexuality education to upper secondary
students and four hours to tertiary students. Many schools hire
external vendors to conduct the sessions.
Woo Soo Min, vice-principal of Anderson Junior College, told the
newspaper that the Family Life Society was chosen because it
focused on abstinence and approached the topic using ones values
and beliefs as the basis, but conceded that the tone might not
have been suitable.
The society defended its programme, maintaining that it never
imposed any ideas on the students and kept its content entirely
secular.
While some content may have been moralistic, the presentation was
never religious, Andrew Kong, senior executive of the group, was
quoted as saying.
