Abstinence-Only Education Vs Comprehensive Sex Education

There are two main ways to teach sex education, comprehensively or abstinence only. Comprehensive sex education focuses more on the idea of protecting yourself during sex. Abstinence-only education focuses on the idea of abstinence, and waiting until marriage to have sex. Teens need to be taught because of the high teen pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) rates. Comprehensive sex education is more effective than abstinence-only education. In the U.S. the teen pregnancy and STD rates need to be reduced. They are a big problem in the youth and they need to be educated. If adolescents are taught more about sex this can definitely decrease these rates. If they are not educated nothing else will help because they do not realise what …show more content…
No matter what they are taught, teens are going to have sex. The average person loses their virginity between sixteen and seventeen. This is obviously before marriage and people are definitely not “abstaining themselves”. If people are going to have sex no matter what, they might as well be taught to protect themselves from any further harm. Before teaching comprehensively was called “destructive of religious beliefs” but the church is now more advanced and people know sex is natural and a common thing within the current society. Another reason comprehensive sex education should be taught is that some adolescents don’t have parents that teach them about the birds and the bees. People need to be educated about sex because it is what humans naturally do. Parents can sometimes be uncomfortable with talking to their children about sex. For this reason people should be taught about sex in school so that all students can be educated about the subject. This will allow for a greater amount of people that are prepared and know how to protect themselves in a sexual situation. If this is done then there will be less STD and teen pregnancy