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Introducing sex education in Malaysian schools have long been a point of contention.

Advocates believe sexual and reproductive health should be a curriculum in schools as early as kindergarten.

Those against it, however, are concerned that it might normalise pre-marital sex, which is against prevailing religious beliefs.

June Low, who hosts online sex education show Popek-Popek on web TV network PopTeeVee, does not delve into the morality of the matter.

She talks to Humans of Kuala Lumpur on her approach as a sex educator:

“As a sex educator, I get many questions, and no question is stupid.

"Questions like 'Will I lose my virginity if I use a tampon? or 'Will I be a whore if I am on contraception?'

"'What does it mean when you say I want to keep my baby?'

"'What about getting married … and child marriages if your body is not ready?'

“I don’t tell a kid that this is ‘halal’ (permissible in Islam) or ‘haram’ (forbidden), it is not my business - my business is science and biology.

"I’m an educator and am objective.

"If a child comes to me with a problem and says that he/she masturbates too much, is that a problem? I’ll tell them no.

"But then they say that God says if you do it too much you go blind.

"Scientifically there’s no correlation between masturbation and going blind."


This story was first published on the HUMANS OF KUALA LUMPUR Facebook page. In this photography project, Mushamir Mustafa takes pictures of random Kuala Lumpur residents who share with him a little story from their lives. It features on Malaysiakini every weekend.

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