Where does one first learn about sex? Is it at home? Maybe at the playground from a friend? Doctor? Church? School? Many can agree they have received some basic information but not everything to make informed decisions on one’s health. “Forty seven percent of all teens are sexually active in the United States of America,” according to SIECUS (SIECUS Oct.2009) but do they have the correct information needed to make the right choices? With nearly half of all teenagers engaging in some type of sexual relations, only twenty-three states teach comprehensive sexual education. The remaining twenty-seven states teach abstinence-only in schools. “Comprehensive Sexual Education teaches about abstinence as the best method for evading sexually transmitted
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(advocatesforyouth.org 2) These programs include age-appropriate, medically accurate information on a broad set of topics related to sexuality, including human development, relationships, decision-making, abstinence, contraception, and disease prevention (seicus.org). Abstinence-only is government-funded program that teaches children abstinence until marriage. It teaches that there are physical and psychological effects to having sex before marriage. To encourage adolescence and teenagers not to have sex, abstinence only avoids teaching students about many important sex related topics. At a young age media is exposing to sex in America; it is all over commercials, movies and social media. It is very hard to avoid and in a sense, it is a normal part of life but what age is too young to learn about sex? What should schools teach teens and who’s responsibility is it to teach the younger generations? Although there are many Americans who believe schools should teach some form of sex or sexuality education, there still are many who oppose it. (Source) Thesis: Knowledge of health and sexuality can help teens make better decisions when it comes to their sexual health and body which will lead to lowering teen pregnancy and STI rates as well as clearing misconceptions that are detrimental to student’s health, therefore all schools, private or public, should make teaching comprehensive sexual education a requirement in the United
(advocatesforyouth.org 2) These programs include age-appropriate, medically accurate information on a broad set of topics related to sexuality, including human development, relationships, decision-making, abstinence, contraception, and disease prevention (seicus.org). Abstinence-only is government-funded program that teaches children abstinence until marriage. It teaches that there are physical and psychological effects to having sex before marriage. To encourage adolescence and teenagers not to have sex, abstinence only avoids teaching students about many important sex related topics. At a young age media is exposing to sex in America; it is all over commercials, movies and social media. It is very hard to avoid and in a sense, it is a normal part of life but what age is too young to learn about sex? What should schools teach teens and who’s responsibility is it to teach the younger generations? Although there are many Americans who believe schools should teach some form of sex or sexuality education, there still are many who oppose it. (Source) Thesis: Knowledge of health and sexuality can help teens make better decisions when it comes to their sexual health and body which will lead to lowering teen pregnancy and STI rates as well as clearing misconceptions that are detrimental to student’s health, therefore all schools, private or public, should make teaching comprehensive sexual education a requirement in the United