Sex Education Is More Beneficial Than Abstinence Only Education

While the department of education does include a recommendation for school districts to develop and implement age-appropriate sex education, it’s not mandated in many states. There is confusion among teenagers about the different methods they can use to protect themselves; for example, contraceptives (such as birth control) do not prevent STI’s, but do prevent pregnancies. In fact, almost 37% of "18-25 year olds incorrectly believe at least one of the following: transmission of HIV is possible by sharing a glass, kissing, or touching a toilet seat" (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation 2006). Without the proper knowledge, teens simply cannot be expected to act accordingly. Abstinence-only education gives students an incomplete education, and expects students to disregard the gaps in teachings. This isn't just unfair; it is dangerous. In a study performed by the American Journal of Public Health involving 4,000 teens over a period of seven years, they found that adolescents who used condoms during their first intercourse had on average the same number of partners as those who did not use a condom. However, the former group was 30 percent more likely to have used condoms in their most recent sexual encounter,

The current abstinence-only education is not only a funding scheme created by the government, but has also proven detrimental to students. On the other hand, a comprehensive sex education has accomplished its primary goal of giving young people the opportunity to receive a full sex education by allowing them to examine what beliefs they want to follow and allowing students to resist becoming sexually active, preventing the transmittance of sexually transmitted diseases and infections and allowing them to become responsible, sexually healthy

Comprehensive sex education is the most realistic way of teaching sex education today. While remaining abstinent is the only way to be one-hundred percent sure one will not have an unwanted pregnancy or contract a Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD), it is unrealistic in today’s society. Teenagers, as well as adults, are engaging in premarital sexual activity. STDs can be a serious or life-threatening disease. Effective comprehensive sex education should contain information detailing sexual development and reproduction, methods of birth control, STDs and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), abortion, and the different religious and cultural views on sex and sexual diversity. With this information,

Sexual education and the methods we should use to get the point across has been debated heavily in the past few years. There are many issues within this broad topic, such as the fact that only 13 states mandate that the information given be medically accurate, and 4 states require that within a sexual education course, sexual orientation be spoken about in a negative manner. However, the overlying problem is abstinence-only (also known as level 3) sexual education. Abstinence-only sexual education is not substantial enough as a system because it fails to inform young people of the real risks that can be taken, and how to counteract these risks.

Almost every young American has had some sort of sexual education— whether it be an in-depth program, or just a mandatory slideshow— having to sit through a sex ed. class is a rite of passage. But does the education we receive here in the U.S. really teach us what we need to know, with an “abstinence-only”— that is, not having sex until marriage— approach being the primary teaching of this educational course? The American method of instructing teenagers and young adults that abstinence is the only way to safely handle sexual education is detrimental to our country as a whole, and would be better replaced by a more comprehensive program. Teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection

Everyone has their own way of raising children. This sometimes causes problems while deciding on what children should learn in school. A child’s upbringing is vital in determining what they will grow up to be. It is hard enough to raise a child, but it is even harder when you have to watch society as well. In today’s age there are a lot of things that parents cannot shield their child from seeing that used to be easy to hide. So much can be easily accessed through the touch of a finger. Which is why children need more education on what is happening in the world now. Schools are the safest place to talk to children about how the times have changed. While some schools cater to religion being taught the same thing is not set in place for sex

Abstinence only sexual education wouldn’t be such an alarming problem if those in charge didn’t insist on falsifying statistics to perpetuate fear. While simply not participating in sexual contact is the only one hundred percent effective way to avoid pregnancy and disease, preventive medical care should no longer be overlooked. The Waxman report reviewed the curriculum and concluded that over eighty percent of schools receiving federal grants contained false and misleading information, generally the exaggeration of contraceptive failure rates (Beh, and Diamond). The Choosing the Best curriculum states that over a four year period condoms have a failure rate of fifty percent (CITE THIS) while the Center of Disease Control states the failure

Teaching children the usefulness of abstinence will not stop teens from fulfilling their urges. In the article Sex Ed by Anna Quindlen she states, “I always think of that day when someone suggests that sex education at school is a big part of the answer to the problem of teenage pregnancy.” Teaching sex education will and is not changing the rate of teenage pregnancies. Teaching abstinence is just preparing our generation for failure. Recently there has been an alarming rate of incidents in schools systems, for example “Superior Court Judge Donald Black said abstinence-only sexual education violated California state law which requires that sexual education be inclusive of pupils of all races, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and pupils with disabilities.” Many schools that teach abstinence-only sexual education do not give light on the fact that you can get a disease or pregnancy from sexual acts without protection. This causes students to become more confused and leaves them not knowing how to take provisions when they do decide to

Sex is considered a private thing not to be discussed in this day and age. However, with the age that people start having consensual sex getting younger and younger each day. There is clearly a need to have a straight dialogue with young people of each new generation about sex, the dangers, and repercussions of having sex before marriage. The type of sex education we are proposing is a comprehensive sex education. In this paper we will outline the best way we found to incorporate a comprehensive sexual abstinence education into your school, what is it, and why we think it’s important to have a secure sex education program.

According to ncsl.org, “As of March 1, 2016: 24 states and the District of Columbia require public schools teach sex education. 33 states and the District of Columbia require students receive instruction about HIV/AIDS. 20 states require that if provided, sex and/or HIV education must be medically, factually or technically accurate. State definitions of “medically accurate" vary, from requiring that the department of health review curriculum for accuracy, to mandating that curriculum be based on information from ‘published authorities upon which medical professionals rely’” (“Comprehensive Sex Education”). Many other states propose abstinence only educations, in which students are taught that the best way to avoid unwanted pregnancies and STDs is to simply avoid sex altogether. Although the idea that avoiding sex is the solution to all these problems, abstinence only education has proven numerous times to be ineffective. According to the Public Library of Science, in 2005 a study was conducted on all states except South Dakota and Wyoming. The results of the study provided evidence that abstinence only education does little to prevent teen pregnancies. States that did not enforce abstinence programs had much lower pregnancy rates than states that heavily stressed abstinence. These results make it clear that simply encouraging students not to have sex does not work. With very few

With abstinence only sex education teens wouldn’t be learning about STD prevention or pregnancy prevention and if they did decide to have sex, they wouldn’t know much about STDs and how devastating they can be and that would eliminate their fear factor and they wouldn’t really worry about getting them. “At the moment the favored approach is called comprehensive sex education. The nation's highest-ranking health officer, Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, has endorsed this approach as the chief way to reduce unwed childbearing and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among teenagers.”(Whitehead). The big controversy is that parents don’t want some stranger teaching their children about sex, but instead they want to be the ones that educate their children when they feel like the time is right. Yeah that’s great and all but the problem is that when the teens parents teach them about sex, they often times miss some key information and that could leave the teen confused, or they could give information that is structured based on an opinion and could mislead the teen to perceive sex as a bad thing which can’t be true because it’s the root of life. When comprehensive sexual education is taught in school it’s information is 100%

Sexual Education suggests to deliver the knowledge, standards and procedures that allow the implementation of human rights, the satisfactory enactment in our personal lives, inspire a thoughtful change in civic values, ethical attitudes, and active oppositions which arouse the personal development and social combination of pre-teenagers and teenagers, and subsequently prevent the transmission of HIV, undesirable pregnancies, and sexual violence. In general it must breakdown all the ties between stereotypes and mythologies about sexuality.

Understanding the issues that come with sexual education in the classroom is the first step in being a comprehensive sex education advocate. To this day, we see classrooms in middle and high schools preaching about abstinence, shaming children and not being able to give proper, thorough, and informative resources and guidelines on how to approach healthy, body-positive, accessible information about sexual activity. The ideal image abstinence curriculum advocates are hoping for is all adolescents will not have sex prior to marriage, that there will be no STI’s flowing from person A to B, and that the risk of unplanned teen pregnancies will just disappear. The realistic comprehensive approach to sex education states that we are aware that no matter how many ‘do not have sex’ programs we fund and promote, there will always be the handful or more of the population who won’t follow through.

People look at this type of teaching as planting a “seed” for sex in their minds. This is very untrue. Teenagers do not need help to think about sex, teenagers already think about sex. With the influx of hormones during puberty primary and secondary sex characteristics become more noticeable and desirable to teenagers. Sexual education does more good than harm and actually helps adolescents development. Studies conducted by the World Heath Organizations has established that sexual education programs both abstinence and comprehensive based programs help delay and reduce sexual encounters. Teaching adolescents sexual education improves knowledge and understanding. This can intern result in the building of autonomy and confidence. Adolescents are faced with what Erik Erikson’s describes as identity versus role confusion (Berger, 2014). In this crisis adolescents must discover who they are so they can plan for the future. Sexual education programs in school can help adolescents plan for the future. By giving them information about sex it can help to avoid unwanted pregnancies along with transmissions of diseases. Because after all education will not plant any seeds, just help plants grow successfully.

Sex education is on issues identifying with human sexuality, including human sexual life systems, sexual propagation, sexual action, regenerative wellbeing, passionate relations, conceptive rights and obligations, sexual restraint, and contraception. Numerous gatherings of individuals accept that in terms of sex education, the cons exceed the pros, for one extremely straightforward reason. They accept, without question, that their children ought not to be presented to something as unrefined as sex, in their school days on the grounds that their religion does not allow it. It goes against their religious convictions and suppositions, and they don't acknowledge it, on standard. Normal methods for sex education are parents or guardians, formal school projects, and public wellbeing crusades. Generally, teenagers in numerous societies were not given any data on sexual matters, with examination of these issues being viewed as unthinkable. Such direction as was given was customarily left to a youngster's parents, and frequently this was put off until just before a kid's marriage. In this paper I will examine the sex education in the public