popular newspapers. Selling cars or selling beer needs young women in sexy
clothes to present the goods. Also social organization as seen in Thai Buddhism,
and females are still not allowed to be monks. Females are not allowed to enter
some holy spaces in temples.
My concern is that sex education being taught at school cannot change the
attitude of students that‘raping is okay because the females gesture in a seductive
way by dressing themselves so sexy’. It is good to know that some civil groups
launched a petition to stop violence on the mass media and go against promoting
rape unconsciously. I do think that sex education curricula need to be reassessed
and readjusted together with the control and censorship on violence against females
in the mass media.
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