Sexual abstinence

Sexual Education has been encouraged to be a part of public school education since the late 1800’s. It is a program that is supposed to help young adolescents understand their body, promote abstinence, types of contraception, the risks of engaging in sexual activities, and how to prevent diseases or pregnancy. However, many parents fight this program because of their beliefs that teens should stay abstinent till marriage, and learning about sex will increase their urge to have sex. Depending on…

continuation of teaching abstinence-only education trumps evidence given by scientists and professors who state that it is unrealistic and censors young adults from dangerous consequences when certain precautions are not taken. If the intent for sexual education is to prevent teenage pregnancies and sexual diseases, then the teaching of abstinence-only education should be replaced with curricula that creates a safer and more informative background for young adults. Sexual education is defined…

Throughout the generations, teenagers are still the way they used to be. They are full of energy, disobedient at times, and just want to have fun. This is all what youth is about. You should always cherish certain stages in life because time is one thing you never get back. However, for some, their time has accelerated so rapidly that it ultimately comes to a screeching halt. A halt by a series of loud cries. At the tender age of sixteen, thousands of females find themselves in this tough…

In tenth grade, I had two days of sexual education in my health class. They consisted of our teacher telling us how if you had sex before you were married, you would contract an STD or get pregnant. He said this as an absolute; there was no chance that these things wouldn’t happen to you. He then showed us slides of what different sexually transmitted diseases looked like, and that was the extent of my public school sexual education. This is a huge problem because at some point everyone has to…

‘Abstinence is key’ everybody claims, but not when it comes 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…

transformative decision concerning his/her sexual and reproductive health. However, due to the current curriculums in America, such as Abstinence-Only, a majority of these adolescents lack the knowledge to make that decision responsibly, often resulting in unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. In order to provide the knowledge needed, Comprehensive Sexuality Education should be offered, if not mandatory, in all fifty states. The history of Abstinence-Only began primarily in…

shown 30% of 9th graders admitted to having sexual intercourse before or during that school year. With that amount of sexual activity at such a young age what precautions are being taught in order to protect the youth of tomorrow? In America 37 states have a specific law that requires abstinence only teaching, and 27 of those require the the abstinence be stressed within the lectures (Amanda Beadle). With abstinence being one of the main concepts of sexual education in school systems, students…

body, let alone her boyfriend’s body, or how to protect herself from the risks. Her abstinence-only course at school taught her absolutely nothing about that and now she just does not know what to do. Shy is only one of many cases of people who do not know what they must know about sexual relationships. She was taught that abstinence is the only way to remain safe and therefore she never got that…

[Title]: [Subtitle] Comprehensive sexual education in public schools is crucial to our youth’s sexual health. The government’s proposition to enforce an abstinence-only curriculum in schools is not only misleading and misinformed, but dangerous. Denying students a balanced sexual education puts them at a higher risk of displaying unhealthy sexual behaviors, teenage pregnancy, as well as contracting and spreading sexually transmitted diseases. Introducing comprehensive sex education will provide…

effectiveness of both abstinence-only and comprehensive sex education, what comprehensive sex education curriculum will inform the students, where they will be able to go to seek help and information, and why comprehensive sex education is a better form of sex education. This is a crucial topic because it is important to find and use the most effective way to inform students about sex ed. There are two different forms of sex education that is taught widespread across the United States,…