Sexual abstinence

Importance of Abstinence Pregnancy could be a shocking thing, especially if unintended and at a young age. Throughout history, many parents have been shocked from their daughters being pregnant at a very young age. Teen pregnancy is a life-changing situation and has ruptured many teens’ lives. Today’s youth love to be in a relationship and feel that the best way to express their feelings toward one another is through intimacy. Most of them realized the unwanted effects of a sexual intercourse…

Sexual education is important infomation that must be taught to kids. Teaching our youth about Sex Ed through preventative programs in school is essential of before adulthood. The debate over when sexual education has always been debated. The debate about when to teach your child is where the debate always begins. It is essential that children begin learning about o sexual education in primary school; this is so they are begin to conceptualize and understand the biological and physical…

teach teens about human anatomy, sexual reproduction, abstinence, and some comprehensive methods to avoid unwanted teen pregnancies. Even though most parents agree with schools teaching their children about the consequences of sex, “public discussion indicates that there is little agreement about what forms of sex education should be taught in schools” (Kendall). Many studies bring attention to the fact that while most schools throughout the country teach abstinence-only lessons when it comes to…

health advocate in the Virginia Senate, flipping the district in our favor.” (Stewart-Reid). Planned Parenthood also uses a little humor to get their point across, in this email sent out around Halloween, “Let’s face it: vampires can rack up a lot of sexual partners over the years. Your vampire might be the same age as you, or she or he might be thousands of years old. But no matter how old you are, if you’re going to jump into bed with a vampire, you’re going to need more than a clove of garlic…

Birth Control: Male or Females? Nausea, breast tenderness, headaches, weight gain, mood changes, acne, and depression. These symptoms listed above are just a few ideas of what women experience while using contraception. A good portion of women have used birth control since ancient times but safe and effective methods have only became available since the 20th century. Birth control is used to prevent pregnancy and can be used in different methods such as condoms, prescribed pills, IUD, or…

Abstaining From Common Sense: A Persuasive Essay on Why Abstinence Education Should Not Be Taught In Schools In the U.S. the states with the highest teen birth rates all either do not mandate sex education or stress abstinence-only education (Lowen). Almost all studies on teens health indicate that abstinence only programs should not be used in schools. According to Leslie Kantor’s article, “Abstinence-only Education Violating Students' Rights to Health Information,” the 1996 Welfare Reform bill…

people have extremely misguided information, as research has proven time and time again that there is no correlation between comprehensive sex education and an increase in sexual activity. The problem with this ideology is that the goals of comprehensive sex education and abstinence-only education do not share a common goal. Abstinence only education even goes as far as to discourage people from masturbating. While it is absolutely true that abstaining from sex is the only 100% sure way to be…

especially with the influence of popular media and contemporary ideas. Christians believe that sexual activity should be reserved solely for married couples and for procreation purposes. Sex and marriage has a divine origin and was God’s idea. Sexuality is part to the relationship between a man and wife that involved God joining them together. It is the ultimate expression of deepening intimacy which comes with sexual pleasure as the pinnacle of their relationship and an additional blessing from…

exposed to HIV/AIDS. Multiple research efforts over previous decades have revealed multiple risk factors contributing to HIV infection in African American female youth. These include infrequent condom use, multiple sexual partners, substance use, low self-esteem, interpersonal trauma (child sexual abuse), and ineffective coping styles (Danielson, Walsh, McCauley, Ruggiero, Brown, Sales, Rose, Wingood, & DiClemente, 2013). African Americans accounted for an estimated 44% of all new HIV infections…

Sexual acts between unmarried couples have drastically increased in our modern society, leaving us vulnerable to all kinds of diseases, among other things. The only way to stop this, is by teaching abstinence in schools. Sex education in schools should only teach abstinence to students, because doing so would prevent unwanted pregnancy, reduce sexually transmitted diseases, and teach student to have strong convictions and moral values. The first reason sex education in schools should only…