Sex Education Essay

2015 Sexual Education According to the University of Kansas historian Jeffrey P. Morgan in his book Teaching, Sex, sexual education was first thought about in 1913 when Chicago public schools instituted a lecture series for girls and, separately, boys, on “physiology, moral hygiene and venereal disease” (Friedman). Americans have viewed adolescent sexuality as an impulse to be controlled or, better, repressed. Sex education has mainly aimed at saving teenage girls from early sex, and, therefore…

abstinence only programs because they tend to have different perspectives about sexuality than the rest of America. Eighty-one percent of Christian Americans voted to have abstinence only education while only thirty-one percent of other Americans voted for abstinence only education. The Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE) program has mostly funded organizations that have strong religious faith. A Silver Ring program has even been placed in schools where students had to swear to God that…

abstinence-only sex education in schools leads to many societal repercussions in areas where this education is taught. Abstinence-only education is the only sex education to teach children in schools is to abstain from sex. The issue of teaching abstinence is an important issue to address because the area in which abstinence-only education faces societal repercussions. Some of these societal repercussions are increased teen pregnancy, increased STD rates, and belief in sex myths. Abstinence-only…

these devices, such as people who suffered the consequences of the original IUD, and religious communities who endure as adherents of abstinence--the only 100% effective contraceptive method. Alongside the increasing acceptance of IUDs, should sex education programs for adolescents advertise the prosperity of the device; more so will a religiously dominated country like the United States endorse such a successful contraceptive…

to educating our youth about safe sexual behavior. Many schools are beginning to introduce abstinence only education programs to their curriculum with the mentality that this will prevent high school students from engaging in sexual activity. This impractical method of prevention will not only hurt those being, or not being educated, it will also hinder our society. Abstinence-only education programs, many critics argue, use fear based models to scare teenagers into not engaging in sexual…

“Teaching sex ed in schools is really important for obvious reasons. No parent wants to talk to their kids about sex and no kid wants to talk about sex with their parents”., This quote from John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight puts the conversation taking place in the U.S about sex into an informative, yet entertaining package. Sexual education in the United States is a controversial topic shrouded with misinformation and bias. Policy makers and makers of the curriculum may have a personal bias or…

Professor McCann English 1301 14 October 2014 The Truth In Rush Limbaugh’s essay, “Condoms: The New Diploma”, he talks about the foolishness of the distribution of condoms in high school. He says in his essay that abstinence should be the one and only sex education because condoms don’t actually offer one hundred percent protection against pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Limbaugh’s essay would appeal to the average conservative republican, but would probably separate the liberals.…

standard in the United States for sexual education. Resulting in some states having comprehensive sexual education but others have none. However, states with comprehensive sex education have seen far better outcomes. Advocates for Youth summarized the positive effects of comprehensive sex education, “Behavioral outcomes have included delaying the initiation of sex as well as reducing the frequency of sex, the number of new partners, and the incidence of unprotected sex, and/or increasing the…

In this scenario, Levy brings up Deborah Tolman’s observation regarding two teenage girls’ experience with sex that “often becomes a conversation about being wanted” (Levy 163) and they “had remarkably difficult times experiencing or expressing sexual desire.” (Levy 163) This observation demonstrates the dangers of utilizing sex acts solely for the affection of males rather than fulfilling sexual desires, enabling Levy to assume that women participating in sexual conduct…

experience poor health, increased chance of teenage pregnancy themselves, and lower levels of education (Collins 2). With comprehensive sex education, the likelihood of this happening goes down, because adolescents receive education on how to engage safely in sexual activity. When students have knowledge on condoms and have access to them, studies show that the use of condoms increases, while the average amount of sex stays the same (SIECUS 2). Teaching students about condoms, how to use them,…