Sexual abstinence

mostly ignored (East, 1999). In the past, limited research in Mississippi has only focused on a small sector of education using the abstinence-only or abstinence-plus approaches. There is a need for education that goes beyond the abstinence approaches that acknowledges that teenagers are sexually active and are becoming sexually active at very young ages. Sexual health education should be placed in the schools, homes, and community centers and organizations. A parent’s attitude about…

it will affect them in the future. To decrease teen pregnancies and infections diseases, schools should teach sex education on topics such as health, abstinence, and safe sex. Sex education should be taught in public schools . Sex education is mainly taught in public schools on topics ranging abstinence and reproduction to sexual orientation and sexual transmitted diseases (source 1). The information from sex education classes will…

It is not wrong to learn both abstinence and comprehensive sex education, however; it is wrong to withhold an education from young adults with very active hormones who could be at risk for the many high-risk factors that come along with sexual intercorse. Abstinence education, according to Kekla Magoon, author of Sex Education In Schools, “means voluntarily choosing not to have sex” (8). As Magoon…

infection rates. Texas sex education curriculum follows an “abstinence-only-before-marriage” approach, and lacks a more comprehensive program to educate teens on disease and infection contraction, pregnancy, condoms, and other concerns which all youth have the right, and need, to know about. However, many are concerned that an in depth program will lead to higher STD and STI contractions, thinking a comprehensive curriculum will promote sexual activity among teens. The opposite is actually the…

Society expects sexual empowerment to be an individual responsibility; therefore, sexual education in schools does not aim to empower students about sexuality but rather to educate them on the basics and expect them to learn other information on their own. The way in which sexual empowerment is portrayed today makes it appear “as an individualistic notion of self-improvement and personal responsibility” (Grose, Grabe, & Kohfeldt, 2014), making it about the individual rather than an institutional…

Mikael Bailey Professor James Johnson English 1112 – Section GT03C 9/02/2017 Persuasive Essay Abstinence Sex Education Ineffective Adolescence is an age marked by huge change and growth. Sexual and reproductive organs mature, sex drive develops, and thus relationships and social interactions change. Biologically speaking, teenagers are at their prime reproductively. The human body is designed to produce and deliver children during the teenage years. The problem is that humans do not…

Stanger-Hall, K. F., & Hall, D. W. (2011). Abstinence-Only Education and Teen Pregnancy Rates: Why We Need Comprehensive Sex Education in the U.S. PLoS ONE, 6(10). Principle Findings In this journal article, the author’s main goal is to analyze the effectiveness of abstinence-only education versus comprehensive sex education. The US ranks number one among developed nations in teen pregnancy and the rate of sexually transmitted diseases despite the US having similar cultural and socioeconomic…

being corrupted due to one major topic; abstinence. Sex Education should not preach abstinence because students are being denied important information and becoming emotionally damaged. There are very important topics that are avoided. For example, STD & STI prevention and testing, pregnancy prevention as in birth control and condoms, and safe sex precautions. This information is not given to teens because what is supposed to be Sex Education is really Abstinence Education (Sanoff). In a survey…

Should sexual education be taught in public schools? Should sexual education be abstinence only? These are two great questions that should be addressed, and that every parent should consider when placing their child in a public school. Sexual education has been one of the most controversial topics in education history. Sexual education should be taught in public schools and I do not believe that it should focus only on abstinence. Sexual education is the broad term to describe education about…

One health area that is usually ignored is sexual health. Most people and studies often focus on physical, mental or spiritual health but forget to take into account sexual health. This is especially true for young adults, a population that has been affected the hardest by an increase in STD diagnosis. STDs or Sexually transmitted diseases are infections that are passed from one person to another during sexual behaviors. Gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis and HIV are among the most commonly…