Sex Education In Schools

How do we know that teenagers are getting all the information in sexual education class that they need? Many students have questions about sex that they are too afraid to ask, but many are wondering about. In libraries and book stores, you can even find books of questions we all wonder about but are too shy to ask about. Though they are seldom checked out or purchased because once again, the fear of calling negative attention. Often times “additional questions” are addressed through anonymous questions written by students then read and addressed orally by the teacher. While this may in effort to prevent embarrassment of the student(s), it may still be difficult for students to ask questions with a controversial nature. There has also been a restriction of topics deemed “not suitable” for students in school, put in place by parents, the government, and other such figures. While teachers try to education teenagers on sex, because of the controversial nature of the subject, only focus on body parts and not what young adults need to know.

Sex/health educations in schools have only been around for about 74 years in schools. It has been argued for the past 30 or so years whether all-inclusive or “abstinence-only-until-marriage” (advocatesforyouth.org) education should be taught in classes. Advocates for youth is a website dedicated to teens/youth to help aid in sex and reproductive health education. With a pro-comprehensive sex education program students are taught that sex is a part of healthy part of human nature while sex education with an abstinence approach teaches to stifle this expression until their married life. With more open health education classes, students are still taught “about abstinence as the best meth...

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