Preventing Child Grooming: Sex Education From Islamic Perspective

Abstract

Child grooming is an act of sexual abuse in which an adult (groomer) manipulates a child under the age of 18 by building relationships, trusts, and emotional bonds online and offline. One of the prevention efforts of acts of sexual violence and harassment is with sex education. However, modern sex education today has been influenced by political, legal, and economic circumstances of liberal viewpoints. This resulted in sex education in a religious perspective being considered un progressive and relevant to modern society. In addition, for some Muslims sex education is still taboo to discuss. Based on this, this review will involve a comprehensive search of targeted literature and a narrative examination of research in Indonesia and internationally to look for similarities and differences. The result of this review is that Islamic sex education can be used in efforts to prevent sexual violence including child grooming by embracing and providing education to stakeholders such as parents, teachers, and the government.