India, can we talk openly about sex please?

Comprehensive sex education programs are urgently needed

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Indian school girls look at plastic models of a man and a woman in Mumbai in February 2003: sex education would be a driving force in resolving many of the urgent problems plaguing Indian society. © Reuters

Rathina Sankari is a freelance writer based in India.

Famous for its erotic sculptures, the World Heritage-listed Khajuraho Group of Monuments in the state of Madhya Pradesh is but one example of how ancient Indian culture celebrated sex. The world's first sex treatise, the Kama Sutra, is another.

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