Misconceptions of human sexuality
The first reason as to why it is important for schools to give its students sexual education is to get rid of all the misconceptions about human bodies and how it works. I'm sure we've all heard weird misconceptions. If you haven't, however, here is/are(???) to name a few:
1. Babies are born through the anus. Wrong, because the anus is a part of the digestive system, not the reproductive system.
2. Women cannot pee during their period. Wrong, because urine comes out from a different hole than the period blood. Urine exits through the uretra while period blood exits through the vagina.
3. A female is able to get pregnant without sexual intercourse (for example, only by hugging or kissing). This is very wrong …show more content…
The Spread of STDs Stds, short for sexually transmitted diseases, are diseases that can be transmitted from one person to another through sexual contact. You can get stds by having sex with someone who has stds or having multiple partners.
Stds aren't rare, especially among young people. According to the result of the 2013 survey among US high school students, 47% had ever had sexual intercourse and 15% had had sex with four or more people during their life. Nearly 10,000 young people (aged 13-24) were diagnosed with HIV infection in the United States in 2013 and nearly half of the 20 million new STDs each year were among young people, between the ages of 15 to 24. In 2014, women aged 15–19 years had high rate of gonorrhea (430.5 cases per 100,000 females). There are lots more incidents like these and, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), young adults that are at risk of getting affected by the social and cultural conditions that affect sexual risk-taking behaviors need to be given intervention such as sexual education in order to lessen the rates of STDs and out-of-wedlock pregnancy, which leads to the third
The first reason as to why it is important for schools to give its students sexual education is to get rid of all the misconceptions about human bodies and how it works. I'm sure we've all heard weird misconceptions. If you haven't, however, here is/are(???) to name a few:
1. Babies are born through the anus. Wrong, because the anus is a part of the digestive system, not the reproductive system.
2. Women cannot pee during their period. Wrong, because urine comes out from a different hole than the period blood. Urine exits through the uretra while period blood exits through the vagina.
3. A female is able to get pregnant without sexual intercourse (for example, only by hugging or kissing). This is very wrong …show more content…
The Spread of STDs Stds, short for sexually transmitted diseases, are diseases that can be transmitted from one person to another through sexual contact. You can get stds by having sex with someone who has stds or having multiple partners.
Stds aren't rare, especially among young people. According to the result of the 2013 survey among US high school students, 47% had ever had sexual intercourse and 15% had had sex with four or more people during their life. Nearly 10,000 young people (aged 13-24) were diagnosed with HIV infection in the United States in 2013 and nearly half of the 20 million new STDs each year were among young people, between the ages of 15 to 24. In 2014, women aged 15–19 years had high rate of gonorrhea (430.5 cases per 100,000 females). There are lots more incidents like these and, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), young adults that are at risk of getting affected by the social and cultural conditions that affect sexual risk-taking behaviors need to be given intervention such as sexual education in order to lessen the rates of STDs and out-of-wedlock pregnancy, which leads to the third