Today, there are many arguments about whether or not our sex education system should be revamped, not to mention which topics should and shouldn 't be covered in our schools. The idea that abstinence-only sex education is, of course, commonly refuted—after all, it was only recently that a Texas school district, whose curriculum was solely abstinence-only with no coverage on contraceptives, had a chlamydia outbreak. The Guttmacher institute also states that 99% of women ages 15 to 44 have used at least one sort of contraceptive method in their lifetime, although this includes the far-less reliable methods like pulling out and natural planning. This means that at some point, students should be taught about contraceptives, considering that almost
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After all, not only is some of that due to the vigilance of parents who decided to raise their children better and educate them about their bodies and everything that comes with puberty and growing up, but just because something is better does not mean that it is …show more content…
To prove this, I interviewed my mother, Bonnie J. MacGregor, about her experiences with sex education. My mother was born in 1964, which meant that the bulk of her puberty and sex education happened in the 1970s and 80s. Aside from that, she dealt with a mother who did not seem to want to speak a word about sex or anything to do with the natural functions of the human body and lived in the small town of Kinderhook, New York, which is a short distance away from Albany, New York. Because she lived in a small town, everybody knew each other. This meant that her pharmacist knew her grandmother, who would then definitely know if my mother went in to buy condoms (if she could—if she had a latex or spermicide allergy, she wouldn 't have been able to buy condoms at all) and could, hypothetically, spread gossip around the whole town that she was having sex. Especially in such a small town like that, the idea that she had sex—which she didn 't, because as she constantly told me, good girls didn 't have sex—would have been damning for her, which was hard enough, considering that at that age, her mother had already remarried after her father
After all, not only is some of that due to the vigilance of parents who decided to raise their children better and educate them about their bodies and everything that comes with puberty and growing up, but just because something is better does not mean that it is …show more content…
To prove this, I interviewed my mother, Bonnie J. MacGregor, about her experiences with sex education. My mother was born in 1964, which meant that the bulk of her puberty and sex education happened in the 1970s and 80s. Aside from that, she dealt with a mother who did not seem to want to speak a word about sex or anything to do with the natural functions of the human body and lived in the small town of Kinderhook, New York, which is a short distance away from Albany, New York. Because she lived in a small town, everybody knew each other. This meant that her pharmacist knew her grandmother, who would then definitely know if my mother went in to buy condoms (if she could—if she had a latex or spermicide allergy, she wouldn 't have been able to buy condoms at all) and could, hypothetically, spread gossip around the whole town that she was having sex. Especially in such a small town like that, the idea that she had sex—which she didn 't, because as she constantly told me, good girls didn 't have sex—would have been damning for her, which was hard enough, considering that at that age, her mother had already remarried after her father