Where do babies come from? Many parents say the typical stork or otherwise, but what happens in a couple years when their child is genuinely curious? Can parents and guardians rely on public school to offer quality sexual education? Most of the sex ed programs in schools today provide ambiguous, often overlooked and varied sexual education. Sexual education in the United States has many problems regarding standardization and content that can be dealt with by passing federal laws and providing extensive sex education that introduces healthy and correct knowledge about the subject. One of the many problems associated with the current sexual education model is that there is not a federal law that requires sex ed to be taught to all students,
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Unfortunately, sex, especially uninformed sex among teens, is seen as the “be all end all” of life itself and is not regarded well in today’s society. As a byproduct of sub-par sex ed, this problem of “slut shaming” or criticizing, degrading or mocking anyone for his or her real or presumed sexual activity has begun because people are not sexually educated. Another byproduct is the construct of virginity and that having sex transforms a person, mainly women. According to Julie Zeilinger, a feminist author and editor at Identities.Mic, "We only speak of virginity when it comes to women. Society has constructed the idea of virginity to shame women of their bodies." Women and men alike need to learn that having sex shouldn’t change how the entire world looks at them, and that's why sex education that helps destigmatize the subject is necessary. We hear these sayings of being “loose” if a woman has been with so many men but scientifically and medically speaking, that doesn’t even make sense. If everyone were taught correct, extensive sexual education, the knowledge gained would be the anatomy of genders, the knowledge of all forms of birth control and how to use them effectively, as well as that the right to say ‘no’ is always an option, that sex is natural and happens all the time, and
Unfortunately, sex, especially uninformed sex among teens, is seen as the “be all end all” of life itself and is not regarded well in today’s society. As a byproduct of sub-par sex ed, this problem of “slut shaming” or criticizing, degrading or mocking anyone for his or her real or presumed sexual activity has begun because people are not sexually educated. Another byproduct is the construct of virginity and that having sex transforms a person, mainly women. According to Julie Zeilinger, a feminist author and editor at Identities.Mic, "We only speak of virginity when it comes to women. Society has constructed the idea of virginity to shame women of their bodies." Women and men alike need to learn that having sex shouldn’t change how the entire world looks at them, and that's why sex education that helps destigmatize the subject is necessary. We hear these sayings of being “loose” if a woman has been with so many men but scientifically and medically speaking, that doesn’t even make sense. If everyone were taught correct, extensive sexual education, the knowledge gained would be the anatomy of genders, the knowledge of all forms of birth control and how to use them effectively, as well as that the right to say ‘no’ is always an option, that sex is natural and happens all the time, and