Sex Education: Abstinence Only or Comprehensive Abstinence?

Sex Education: Abstinence Only or Comprehensive Abstinence?

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

What the heck is sex education??


Sex education is when students gain information about sex, forming attitudes about sex, myths about sex, finding sexual identity, and how to understand relationships. This teaching is used to inform our upcoming generation about how to make the right decisons and develope them so they can make the right decision on their own.

Sex education aims to reduce the risk of disease, unwanted or unplanned pregnancies. The goal is also to inform students on how to have a healthy relationship with others.

Here are a couple of points that are the biggest topics to be covered in sex education: 1

  • Sexual development and reporduction

  • Contraceptions and birth control

  • Healthy Sexual Relationships

    Other information that may be covered is information on abortion, and sexuality as well as sources that are avaliable in their area if they have questions or need assistance.

Robert Rector, writer for the Heritage foundation, believes that policymakers should understand certain things about early sexual behavior:

  • Sexually transmitted diseases, which includes incurable viral infections, have increased to unimaginable proportions in the past years. Annually, 3 million teenagers contract STDs; that means that STDs afflict one in four teens who are sexually active.
  • Studies done on sexually active teens show that they "are not only vulnerable to STDs, but also likely to experience emotional and psychological injuries, subsequent marital difficulties, and involvement in other high-risk behaviors." 2

  1. http://www.avert.org/sex-education.htm
  2. Heritage.org

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