Keep your virginity to be a good Thai girl: The impacts of sexual identity from state sexual education programs

Abstract

This research study is a health and physical education curriculum of the Basic Education of 2008, which studies the concept of Thailand in its attitudes and violent symbolic reflection on sex education provide to teenagers. Discourse on sex education became a tool used to determine the state of gender behavior. The state agreed to give public practice, but deprived of the sexuality of the individual. The problem is that many people are unable to follow this ideal image in today’s modern society. The state’s concept has yet to be updated to match the current state of society. Thailand’s current public policy on sex education contradicts the realities of today’s modern sexual relationships. This creates an environment of inequality, as allows valuable human beings to be unjustly convicted of sexual discourse with men and women separated clearly. The discourse that provides value to the traditional concept of male and female sexuality, also cultivates an exclusionary attitude that has prescribed limitations on certain groups, such as homosexuals, and does allow any opportunity of acceptance for these groups within Thai society.