Internationally, there are various countries in the world with successful sex education programs. One of these countries is Norway, which has comparable rates of adolescent sexuality, yet lower rates of teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and abortion. The most notable difference is that sex education in Norway is compulsory and the curriculum is mandated for all schools, starting at age seven until students are sixteen. Unlike the United States where abstinence-based sex education is a separate course or a part of health class – when it is allowed to be taught, sex education in Norway is integrated into many subjects with the modern system broaden the subject of ‘human reproduction’ to “a comprehensive curriculum covering sexual
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And this is approach appears effective by the data: Norway and Finland’s teen pregnancy rates are 65% lower than America’s, and the Netherlands has a pregnancy rate (per 1000 females) just under a quarter of the America rate. Meanwhile in America, local school districts must ask permission to teach about abstinence and condoms, teachers are not allowed to answer questions outside the scope of legal permission, and students are shunned for having engaged in any form of …show more content…
Before the 1970s, regulation on sex education in Australia was nearly non-existent. Over the concern of the increase of STIs and sexual permissiveness in the 1950s, Australian public officials began to recognize that their schools failed to teach the “rudiments of factual knowledge or the glimmering of a healthy attitude.” One of the key factors of this change was what people viewed to be sexual permissiveness during that time period. Around that sometime, in the United States, the scare of sexuality changed from prostitution and masturbation to homosexuality and the violence of sexuality in general as personified by the “dubious spectre of the ‘sex offender.’” All sorts of non-heteronormative, intra-martial activities where politically, socially, and psychologically stigmatized against. Having deep historical ties to Great Britain, the United States and Australia have both been influenced by the culture and politic of Great Britain, especially the religious aspects such as the Victorian Social Purity Movements of the 1800s. These movements have continued their hold on these three countries well into the mid-1900s. Unlike the United States, Australia eventually ended up with a more comprehensive sex education that focuses
And this is approach appears effective by the data: Norway and Finland’s teen pregnancy rates are 65% lower than America’s, and the Netherlands has a pregnancy rate (per 1000 females) just under a quarter of the America rate. Meanwhile in America, local school districts must ask permission to teach about abstinence and condoms, teachers are not allowed to answer questions outside the scope of legal permission, and students are shunned for having engaged in any form of …show more content…
Before the 1970s, regulation on sex education in Australia was nearly non-existent. Over the concern of the increase of STIs and sexual permissiveness in the 1950s, Australian public officials began to recognize that their schools failed to teach the “rudiments of factual knowledge or the glimmering of a healthy attitude.” One of the key factors of this change was what people viewed to be sexual permissiveness during that time period. Around that sometime, in the United States, the scare of sexuality changed from prostitution and masturbation to homosexuality and the violence of sexuality in general as personified by the “dubious spectre of the ‘sex offender.’” All sorts of non-heteronormative, intra-martial activities where politically, socially, and psychologically stigmatized against. Having deep historical ties to Great Britain, the United States and Australia have both been influenced by the culture and politic of Great Britain, especially the religious aspects such as the Victorian Social Purity Movements of the 1800s. These movements have continued their hold on these three countries well into the mid-1900s. Unlike the United States, Australia eventually ended up with a more comprehensive sex education that focuses