Please doesn’t mind but you really need to do some ground work before such posts? From the outlook it sounds as if this is AMERICA and it stuck you that why educating about contraceptives is a BIG DEAL here.
In your whole post you dint write a single line on the reasons why those people were thinking the way they were thinking. Your argument roams around the FRUITs and not the ROOTs. You saying that “I saw no problem in educating young women about contraceptives and reproduction” are very naïve. If you can’t see it, how it means your opinion is right? In a country where women can’t leave their home without a male accompanying them you expect them to be liberal in expecting things which are taboo? How can you so naively put all those questions?
This is not about RIGHT or WRONG. This is about the relative SOCIAL environment in your country. If Americans can eat ten mangoes that’s fine, but here its ‘IMMORAL’ to eat more than two, now you can either fight against their reasoning and convince them on 3 and then 4 and so on or defy all restrictions JUST BECAUSE you consider yourself RIGHT and HIGHLY LIBERAL EDUCATION fellow. Much of your views are from MY-PERSPECTIVE attitude.
You said:
“Moreover what struck me most were the children who went on registering their protest . . . . . . . something as natural as sex as ‘dirty’ for growing children”
So the attitude of some 9 year olds struck you? From the way our environment feeds our generations YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN struck if they had stated otherwise. Your mind is questioning the wisdom of some 9 year old kids, who have no intellect to start with at that age. They even don’t know what they are saying. It has been fed in their mouth by their parents/relatives/etc. They are not HIGHLY enlightened like you who are quite comfortable to discuss sex and related issues.
You have tried to build a case for yourself just because you see LIFE from a different angle and expect everyone else to see it that way. There are one million ways in which one million people can see issue from one single POINT. From a technical point of view I tilt on your side but a fair analysis will question your insistence on I-SEE-THINGs this way and all others should too.
I know you are not forcing your views, but you are explaining an event in that manner. You have to understand your society first before commenting on its behavior. If you are stunned on their response to an event it means you didn’t understand them at first place. Its okay for a girl and guy from upper class to shake hands in public but it’s a HUGE problem to sit/stand next to a male in some other sections of society. You should have first done some homework on this. There is BIG social/religious/moral/cultural and mix of other variables that RESULT in such an attitude. You should understand the person first before you understand his attitude.
You question that:
“why there were no protests regarding a violation of law from a school of advanced studies? . . “ and then you mention the electricity example . .
I mean seriously, this is funny. So are you implying that if violating law is wrong and no one usually protests it means one should also not protest some other thing they think wrong? Where is the HUMAN RIGHT part your argument about them protesting a thing they consider wrong? If they think its wrong they have a right to protest, IS IT NOT A SIMPLE LOGIC? (Supposing the means is fair)
I agree to your hypocrisy part but then there can be million why’s around? Or may be trillion over last 62 years. You can bring every other story in which something wrong was done and no protest was made to ARGUE why a protest now.
Your society is in a complete collapse. Stealing electricity or misuse of power is not an issue but anything attributed to woman, religion etc. is a BIG ISSUE. And this all is because of the decades of brainwashing by our political MASTERs to establish a RADICAL theocracy. You didn’t tough a single aspect of it in your post, did you? Or maybe you dint realize this aspect at all.
“It is widely accepted all over the world that young people have the right to know about sex education . . . . . . “
One can quote you thousand of WIDELY-ACCEPTED things over the world, and that doesn’t put weight in your argument. Why people compare our country with other nation for selective aspects?
Is it widely accepted in the world to allow an NRO-fied president in power?
Is a Chief Justice dragged by hair accepted in the world?
Is it widely accepted to rape a woman by some self made judges in a village (Mukhtara mai)?
Is an ordinary COAS allowed to crush CONSITUTION 4 times in a democracy over the world?
ALL above are pretty much norm in a society YOU are stunned about.
Why we compare apple with oranges in our political and social arguments?
One line from your ending part is I think the most sensible and appropriate i.e
“The incident clearly has more to do with touching taboos than being immoral. We would rather keep the taboo untouched and preserved than explore and discuss the issue . . “
Before you get struck and stunned, you should emphasis more on DISCUSSING such issues rather defying the prevalent (GOOD or BAD) norms of the society you live in. Once you encourage such a debate/ discussions you will see we are not suppose to BLINDLY follow what is (in your language) WIDELY ACCEPTED for other societies. We need our own definition of a BALANCED society which should be not too open for us to kick our roots out and nor too close for an intellectual suffocation.

If you look at it from a religious point of view, Islam is the only religion that gives women rights to work. Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism as a religion do not, yet there are more working women in the west. So the west has adopted what we were taught. Where in Islam does it say not to educate your kid about sex ?? In Islam Hazrat Ayesha was married at 9, and your saying no sex ed till when ??

Hope you see my point here =)

I am finding it very difficult to comprehend what Mr Adnan writes since his written English is extremely poor. I am just going to respond to his sole comment aimed at me.

‘Mian did you learn nomenclature,Algebra and trigonometry at age of 8? Can anyone here tell me when did he/she learn dissection of frog? at age of 9 or in grade 9? Why it’s like that we are not taught university level courses in early stage of education?’

Actually, I did start learning algebra and very advance literature at the age of 9/10. I hate these comments where people claim children that age can not ‘handle’ information about reproduction. FYI being the ever curious and intelligent child, I did not learn about sex from anybody. I had many encyclopaedias that I loved reading and I stumbled upon what sex was at the age of 8/9 and I really can not say it mentally scarred me. It was only at the age of 12/13 that reproduction was properly taught (read skimmed over) at school.

I believe it is an extremely silly notion to brainwash young children into painting sex as a horrible dirty deed. Paedophillia is rife in Pakistan and a lot of girls I personally know have been subjected to some form of sexual abuse when they were children but never had the guts to tell their parents because they either didn’t understand it or were ashamed about it. Open your eyes everybody and educate your children.