Despite the lack of funding for comprehensive sex education in the United States, there has been much support for it because it would provide exclusivity within health courses in middle and high schools. Comprehensive education would be efficient because it teaches all aspects of contraception, medication, treatments, abstinence and addresses the diversity of the student body by including students who have different gender and sexual identities. By addressing the universality of students and establishing a more holistic approach towards sex, it provides teenagers with accurate and applicable information pertaining to their reproductive health. Thus, lowering a majority of the student’s chances of contracting STIs, HIV, having an unintended
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This program also educates people that an abortion could be an option for them by teaching through the different processes such as an abortion pill or physical extraction (Kohler et al. 347). In scenarios where the female wishes to go through with the pregnancy, comprehensive sex education ensures that they provide insight on the various terms during pregnancy and what to expect during child birth. Also, if an individual wishes to have the child but put it up for adoption, these pathways are proposed as well. By offering a multitude of choices tends to every individual’s preference gives female students more alternatives rather than being forced to continue with a pregnancy because of the fear of breaking heteronormative gender roles. To lower chances of sexual assault, rape, abuse, and coercion, comprehensive sex education also promotes effective communication skills which are necessary in intimate, friendly, and sexual relationships (Kohler et al. 346). As a result, it eliminates the gender roles when it comes to sex because both males and females will learn to consider other individual’s wants and …show more content…
Another major difference between abstinence only and comprehensive sex education is that comprehensive programs acknowledge the LGBTQ community within middle and high schools (Elia, John, & Eliason 25). This is extremely important because it eradicates any form of alienation that transgender, bisexual, or homosexual students may face. Some abstinence programs do not educate their youth on the basic definition of what it means to have a sexual orientation or a gender identity, thus increasing teenagers within the LGBTQ community to be more prone to bullying, discrimination, and are left unknowledgeable about their reproductive health (Elia, John, & Eliason 25). If these terms were to be introduced in an abstinence only class, they are often portrayed in a negative light since they are not on par with traditional heteronormative gender roles. However, this is not the case with comprehensive programs because they embrace the fact that it’s completely normal for individuals to feel romantically or sexually interested in someone of the same gender (Elia, John, & Eliason
This program also educates people that an abortion could be an option for them by teaching through the different processes such as an abortion pill or physical extraction (Kohler et al. 347). In scenarios where the female wishes to go through with the pregnancy, comprehensive sex education ensures that they provide insight on the various terms during pregnancy and what to expect during child birth. Also, if an individual wishes to have the child but put it up for adoption, these pathways are proposed as well. By offering a multitude of choices tends to every individual’s preference gives female students more alternatives rather than being forced to continue with a pregnancy because of the fear of breaking heteronormative gender roles. To lower chances of sexual assault, rape, abuse, and coercion, comprehensive sex education also promotes effective communication skills which are necessary in intimate, friendly, and sexual relationships (Kohler et al. 346). As a result, it eliminates the gender roles when it comes to sex because both males and females will learn to consider other individual’s wants and …show more content…
Another major difference between abstinence only and comprehensive sex education is that comprehensive programs acknowledge the LGBTQ community within middle and high schools (Elia, John, & Eliason 25). This is extremely important because it eradicates any form of alienation that transgender, bisexual, or homosexual students may face. Some abstinence programs do not educate their youth on the basic definition of what it means to have a sexual orientation or a gender identity, thus increasing teenagers within the LGBTQ community to be more prone to bullying, discrimination, and are left unknowledgeable about their reproductive health (Elia, John, & Eliason 25). If these terms were to be introduced in an abstinence only class, they are often portrayed in a negative light since they are not on par with traditional heteronormative gender roles. However, this is not the case with comprehensive programs because they embrace the fact that it’s completely normal for individuals to feel romantically or sexually interested in someone of the same gender (Elia, John, & Eliason