The Pros And Cons Of Abstinence Of Sexual Health Education

Having abstinence only education as a form of sexual health education can lead women to be have problems in the future. As in the article “We need to raise awareness about female fertility before it is too late”, there is a nurse who mentions the importance for young people to be taught the biology of reproduction as a part of a sexual health education class (Denton 32). She states that there are women around their late thirties and early forties who are having a hard time conceiving (Denton 32). This was a result of young women not knowing the facts about reproduction, which let them to have a difficult time when they want to get pregnant. By informing children at a younger age using comprehensive sexual health education it will raise awareness …show more content…
Through proper sexual health education this things mentioned previously can be prevented or decreased. Not does only what kind of sexual health education affect the attitudes toward sex. The type of sexual health education like, abstinence only, can lead to adolescents to drop out of high school. Since teenagers are not aware about the different methods of prevention through abstinence only education, teen pregnancy is one of the outcomes. Teen pregnancy can be a reason why female students decide to drop out of high school. For a young lady who if playing the role of a mother and a student can be a very hard task to do. But teen pregnancy does not only affect the teen mother, it also pulls the partner to take responsibility. So through abstinence only education teenagers are likely to become drop outs. Abstinence only education does not engage in sexual intercourse or as a commitment to wait until marriage. Even though abstinence means having the protection toward sexually transmitted diseases and preventing pregnancy, not all young adults are willing to practice abstinence. Therefore the right thing to do is offer comprehensive sexual health education to adolescents, so they can be taught the methods used to prevent pregnancies and how to protect …show more content…
abstinence – only – until – marriage programs” there was a study done that was dealing with abstinence only education and there were results that indicated abstinence only education did not increase rates of sexual abstinence (Malone, Rodriguez 5). The surprising thing they found out was that there was a similarity between children who received abstinence only education and children who did not receive any sexual health education when it came to number of sexual partners (Malone, Rodriguez 5). Children were having unprotected sexual intercourse with abstinence only education. While with comprehensive sexual health education it “had at least one positive sexual effect” (Malone, Rodriguez 5). There was “40 percent of comprehensive programs examined” and the results were that there were “three important effects of delaying the initiation of sexual intercourse, reducing the number of sexual partners and increasing condom or contraceptive use” that were achieved (Malone, Rodriguez 5). Not only does this article report about comprehensive sexual education lowering the initiation of sexual intercourse, but also in another article “Teenage birth increase; sex education delays debut” it mentions “among adolescent girls aged 15 – 19 years who had received formal sex education…only 9 % reported engaging in sex before age 15, compared with 22 % of those who did not receive sex education” (Schneider 12). While “only 10 % of boys who