Talk about sex and pornography is in
Mauritius a taboo discussion. First of all the state does
not allow pornography of any type on the island even erotic
is a taboo. But it is not because it is forbidden by the
laws that you don’t see pornographic films sold in the
different video shops of the island.
Sex is taboo since years the population can’t talk about it.
Now may be, the mind of the younger Mauritian is changing
they start feeling free talking about sex.
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A lot of young girls are often pregnant very young just
because they don’t really know what may happen if they had
sex with a boy. There is no sexual education made by the
parents, on a side it is normal because the parents
themselves haven’t got any sexual education in the past.
It is not like in Europe where young girls are brought to
the doctor to take the anti baby pills as soon as they have
a boyfriend or when they start their menstruation.
Mauritian parents would never bring their daughters to
doctors to take anti bay pills, some will tell you that it
is against their religion, others will just tell you that a
girl should have first time sex after marriage.
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A lot of Mauritian families are living in the past, they
just can’t understand that life is changing and they need to
get along with it.
Nowadays, there are some school that propose Family Life
Education which consist in learning about your own body and
it also in consist in sexual education as how girls gets
menstruation, how you get a baby and so on.
But even though sex is a taboo, there is a large number of
prostitution in Mauritius and a large number of pornographic
films sold.
There is still in Mauritius arrange wedding between boys and
girls to tell you how some Mauritian families are living in
the past, this mainly happens in Indo-Mauritian and
Muslim-Mauritian families.
