Acceptability of the incorporation of sex and sexuality education in the curricula

There are many prevailing societal problems that our country faces today. These problems may include health issues, illiteracy, poverty, economic issues, corruption, prevalence of various crimes, and even terrorism. Our government creates many resolutions especially through enactments of laws and further implementing them. But sometimes, these laws are not effective enough and are somehow not given significance. One of the issues that is associated with the youth is illiteracy which leads to many complications. Illiteracy does not only cover the level of educational attainment that a person fails to have. It may also include the lack of knowledge on something which he hasn't learned within the four corners of the classroom. They learn the ideas and context of these things and they try to know them for the sake of passing the subject but they do not even attempt to know the deeper confines and complexities of the ideas presented to them. Maybe the reason behind this is because they are not open to the things offered to them and are not willing to learn them and eventually apply them. Though students may have the capacity and opportunity to learn, if they are not willing to, then incorporating sex and sexuality education will not be effective and efficient. This study focused only on the students’ attitude toward sexuality and their degree of acceptability toward sex and sexuality education for the purpose of incorporation of sex and sexuality education in the curricula of the tertiary level. It is limited to three hundred twenty-nine (329) students only as computed using the Slovin's formula. As a descriptive co relational study, it had collected factual details and information with the aid of series of questions which had been answered randomly by students. The answers given were compared and correlated to further establish the significant relationship of their attitude toward sexuality and their degree of acceptability toward sex and sexuality education. The significant difference was also identified between the sexual attitude of the respondents and their degree of acceptability when they are grouped according to their profile variables. The result of the finding suggests that there exist a difference in the sexual attitude of the respondents when grouped according to their gender, religion and parents’ living arrangement. However, variables including age, year level, civil status, father's educational attainment, mother's educational attainment, total household monthly income, living arrangement, and ethnicity have no correlation with the attitude of respondents toward sexuality. Based from the foregoing findings, the researchers thereby conclude that the students were found to be liberal on terms of their sexual attitude and have high acceptability toward the incorporation of sex and sexuality education in the curricula. Based from the foregoing findings, the researchers thereby give the following recommendations: Sex and sexuality education should underscore better the plight on how students perceive persons with sexually transmitted illnesses and diseases. Sex and sexuality education should be included in the curriculum for the tertiary level.