Persuasive Essay On Sex Education

In the United States, there are many school districts that are not required to teach sex education at all. Instead, these districts teach what they call “abstinence-only education”. This education is to teach teens and young adults about not having sex, instead of how to have sex safely. So, is abstinence-only education effective enough to continue it in these districts?
As a woman who is also a student, this issue affects me greatly. I had to take sex education (the decently comprehensive kind), as a student in high school. It is compelling to me because it affects how many unwanted children are brought into the world, or children that cannot be cared for, and as a person who has considered becoming a mother in my future, I would try to avoid bringing an unwanted child into the world. It is also compelling to me because I also identify as a feminist, and along with that comes the big sex-positive community of feminists. As someone who identifies as both a feminist and a woman, this issue compels me because it affects other women in my community, therefore the issue affects me. The issue of sex education affects me also because I identify as I a queer woman, and I was not given the sex education that I need to be a safe person around the

Office of Adolescent Health), there is still plenty to be done about sex education and youth pregnancy prevention in this country. Part of the cause of this is the fact that much of sex education in this country provides little to no information about birth control, condoms, and things of that nature. Because of this, in places like Texas, where 75% of the sex education is abstinence-only (Web. Sex Education in Texas Public Schools), there was a 30-39% teen birth rate (Web. Office of Adolescent Health). This shows that despite the abstinence-only education students are getting in school, they still need to know how to have safe sex, because they are clearly still having