Permissibility of airing sexual health programs depends on their content

12-6-2013 | IslamWeb

Question:

Assalamualaikum. I am a Journalist and heading an News Television channel. my viewers are demanding to air sexual health related programs during night times. As a follower of Islam can i permit to air such programs in the television?

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Answer:

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.

Achieving sexual health is something required and it is permissible to aim to achieve it like any other objective which the people need among the objectives that benefit them in their religion and their life.

As for airing programs about sexual health, then the ruling about it differs from one case to another. If the content of these programs are scientific and beneficial, and it does not include prohibitions that are greater than its benefits – like showing forbidden scenes or inciting desires, the thing that may cause temptation and spread it amongst the Muslims, then it is permissible to broadcast them on the channels and teaching them to the people like all other programs that benefit the individual and the whole society.

But if the content of these programs includes the prohibitions that we have mentioned, and its harms are greater than its benefits, then it is not permissible for you to permit broadcasting them to the people, as the objective of the Sharee’ah is to repel harms and reduce them and achieve benefits and complete them.

Allaah Knows best.