Are countries where "wine, jam and gyrate publicly with no clothes on" and "passa passa videos" are the culture having the chickens come home to roost now? Where else woudl a child this young learn this? I am really shocked by this one. 
Sexually active infants
Health Ministry introducing sex education talks to kids 3-6 years
BY INGRID BROWN Sunday Observer staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com
Sunday, April 22, 2007
A growing number of three - to six-year-olds have been engaging in various sexual activities on school compounds, prompting the Ministry of Health to deploy staff to the affected schools to actively engage them and their parents in sex education discussions.
Andrea Campbell, regional behaviour change co-ordinator at the Ministry of Health, said they get up to three requests each month from basic school principals who want them to give sex education talks at their schools because a number of the infants are engaging in various sexual activities.
Campbell said only recently she got a request from the principal of a basic school who had caught a little girl performing oral sex on her male classmate.
"The teacher saw the little boy smiling and when she went to look, she saw the little girl under the desk performing oral sex on him," Campbell said.
She added that when the principal spoke to the little girl, her response was, "So you don't do it, miss?"
Campbell said when the mother was called to the school, her response was "me never know she was watching those videos because she was suppose to be in bed".
Campbell, who was addressing a group of parents at a forum organised by Scotiabank last Friday, said the children are engaging in all types of sex.
She explained that when the request from a school is received, a team from the ministry goes into the school and talks to children as well as address the Parent Teachers Association (PTA).
Campbell said this was why it was important that parents not only talk to their children about sex from an early age but that they uphold certain morals and values themselves. She said those parents who think they are being careful by blocking certain channels from their children must realise that the kids have become technologically savvy and still have access to the channels.
"Many of these children are 'techies' and so when you block a certain channel they have a way of unblocking and watching what they want and then they block it back by the time you get home," she said.
As such, she encouraged parents to get comfortable talking to their children from a very young age about sex.
"We need to get comfortable talking about sex and sexuality because when they go to school, if the teachers themselves are not comfortable talking about sex, then how can they talk to their students about it?" she asked.
She emphasised that it was very important to start this dialogue as there are many students born with HIV who are now in high schools and who will begin experimenting with sex.
"When a man wants to have sex with a girl who is a virgin, if she tells him she is HIV [positive] he won't believe because he will be saying she has never had sex, but she has been born with the virus," Campbell said.
The principal of Alpha Infant School confirmed that a number of basic school children were having 'outright' sex with each other. "Sometime you will have one child ask excuse to go to the bathroom and they will take another student with them and when you think they are in there using the bathroom they are there having sex," she said.
As such, she said it had become important for her to begin engaging members of the PTA in active discussions on the issues surrounding sex.
"We have to start talking to them about these things from early because we can't pretend it is not happening," she said.
The questions asked by many of the parents at the forum showed how limited their knowledge was of the issues surrounding HIV/AIDS.
In a bid to heighten awareness, Scotiabank has sponsored a national primary school HIV/AIDS debating competition in which 400 students will participate and which will have its grand finals on May 19.
"We also want to reach out to parents and the wider community, which is why these seminars are so important," said the manager of Scotia's New Kingston branch.
