Comprehensive Sex Education

Sex education is taught in many different ways and styles depending on the state, city, and even school district. Teaching sex education in schools can be very controversial and raises many questions like at what age sex education is appropriate, the curriculum of the class, and choosing specific programs that satisfy the requirements. The different types of sex education are abstinence-only, abstinence plus and comprehensive sex education. Due to past history, sex education in schools all around the United States have been very biased and may not have offered sex education to help the health of all the students. Reforms have been made and some progress has been made to help make a more beneficial and helpful program but it is not quite all …show more content…
Jemmott (year), adolescents reporting coital debut was cut by one third with an abstinence-only program conducted in the sixth and seventh grade. This program has been effective for some teens, but does not compare to comprehensive sex education. Comprehensive sex education has been proven to be more effective than any other sex education method. According to Advocates for Youth, 2014, comprehensive sex education has shown that 40 percent delayed sexual initiation, reduced the number of sexual partners, or increased condom use. The frequency of sex was reduced by 30 percent among the study participants; including returning to abstinence, and 60 percent reduced unprotected sex (Comprehensive Sex Education: Research and Results, …show more content…
A solution to these problems have been sex education and raising more awareness about what can happen. The three different types of sex education have been used all throughout school districts in America. As of May 1, 2014 these were the requirements for each state. For sex education and HIV education, 23 states like Delaware, Kentucky, Minnesota, and Ohio, make it a requirement to teach sex education. Of those 23, 21 states mandate both sex education and HIV education and the other 2-mandate sex education. 34 states, some like Alabama, Georgia, Iowa, Montana, and North Carolina to name a few, mandate HIV education and 13 of these mandate only HIV education. 28 states mandate that when sex and HIV education are provided, that must meet some general requirements. Some of these requirements include requiring that the instruction be medically accurate, that the information be appropriate for the student’s age, that the instruction is appropriate for the students’ cultural background and not biased against race, sex or ethnicity. A couple of states that mandated it to be culturally appropriate and unbiased are California, Colorado, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, and Washington. Only 25 states require that abstinence be stressed and 12 states require abstinence to be covered. 9 states in the United States require that discussion of sexual

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