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Talk about sex, sexuality and reproductive health by Arab content creators on social media

In the rest of the Arab world, sex education is confined within the conservative boundaries of religious and biology classes, restricted to carefully hand-picked topics like puberty, the reproductive system and sexually-transmitted diseases. Meanwhile, conversations about sexuality, fertility, sexual abuse, and safe sex, or concepts like consent and gender diversity are reduced to whispers among students in school corridors, often based on unscientific or pornographic online content, if not completely muted. As of now, Tunisia remains the only Arab country with a sex education curriculum, introduced through a pilot program in the public-school system in 2020. Lebanon and Morocco have witnessed debates around the inclusion of sex-ed, with Lebanon going as far as introducing a curriculum in 1995. A few years later, it was pulled down after mounting criticism from religious and political institutions. several Arab women have taken on the task of providing alternatives, offering sex-related information via social media to an increasingly curious youth. Do you think that the Ara world need to move with the rest of the world?

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