Persuasive Essay About Sex Education

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Sex is a natural, healthy part of our lives and we have the right to a proper sex education in schools. Sex education in schools have been a controversial topic since 1912, which is when teachers began to be trained on how to teach sex education. The main debate today is whether the sex education should focus on abstinence-only programs or comprehensive programs. Abstinence-only programs focus on teaching students that the only socially acceptable time to have sex is during marriage and abstinence is the only way to protect yourself from contracting STD’s and from becoming pregnant. Comprehensive sex education focuses on reducing the spread of STD’s and teen pregnancies by giving you the facts and information of the different forms of contraceptives that are available. Although America’s various cultures have different views of sex education, it’s important to teach students proper sex education in schools because there is hardly any …show more content…

Scientifically, abstinence-only programs do not have better results than comprehensive programs. Many supporters of abstinence-only programs favor a specific study on the results of abstinence-only that was conducted by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy by the use of surveys. The results of the survey showed that students who were more religious had more conservative views on sex, leading to a longer period of time before having sex. Another study that is favored by abstinence-only supporters is a study that was done in 2001 whose results show that students who

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