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/^t/Talking about sex usually arouses such different and rather unexpected adults' reactions as disgust, shame, embarrassment, anxiety, and, finally, a feeling of offence. It is quite frequent and common as well that some grown-up people treat sex as a complete taboo, the issue the is not to be discussed and talked about at all. Meanwhile, teenagers experiencing fundamental and rapid changes in both their body systems and personalities are in desperate need of open discussion of their problems and of unprejudiced touching on the subject of sex. Thereby, the compulsory introduction of sexual education into secondary schools' syllabuses constitutes a justified and an irrevocable move in helping youngsters throughout a most difficult period of puberty.