Pro Sex' Education in High Schools

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Pro Sex. Education in High Schools

• Tazmyah Warfield
• CIS 1055.622

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Thesis

• Sexual Education, preferably Comprehensive Sexual
  Education, should be taught in high schools
  because teenagers are becoming increasingly
  sexually active during their teen years and are
  uneducated about sex.

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What is Sexual Education?
I wish I would have had sexual education.

• Course that helps teens form their own opinion
  about sexual activity while giving them a look at
  the reproductive system, sexual transmitted
  diseases, human anatomy and contraception.

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Types of Sexual Education

• Comprehensive Sex Education
• Course that includes information about human
  anatomy, reproductive system, contraceptives, and
  sexually transmitted diseases.
• Abstinence Centered Sex Education
• Course that includes HIV information,
  contraceptives, non-coital sexual activity
  reproductive, but stresses the benefits of
  restraining from sexual activity.
• Abstinence Until Marriage Sex Education
• Course that includes material that emphasizes
  restraint from all sexual activity outside of
  marriage. No information about STDs or
  contraceptives are given.

OR
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Why Comprehensive Sex Ed. Should Be Taught

• Young People under 25 experience 9.1 million
  sexually transmitted diseases a year
• The average sexually active age is 14.9
• By age 18, 70 of girls and 62 of boys have had
  sex
• In the U.S., young women experience as many as
  850,000 pregnancies a year

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Why Abstinence Sex Ed. Shouldnt be Taught

• Studies found that federal funded abstinence
  courses curriculum contained over 80 of
  misleading information
• Students who participate in these programs are
  just as likely to be sexually active as students
  who dont participate in the course
• Students also have similar number of sexual
  partners as those students who dont participate
  in the course
• Congress spends 176 million dollars a year on
  abstinence programs that arent effective

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What Parents Think

• 2004 poll from parents given by the Kaiser Family
  Foundation
• 93 of parents want Sexual Education in high
  schools while 7 of parents do not.
• The 93 thought that the sex. education would be
  helpful to their children

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In Conclusion

• Comprehensive sex. education is effective and
  doesnt promote sexual activity
• Helps young people develop their own opinions
  about sex and sexual behavior while giving them a
  healthy look at sexual behavior
• Make sure to vote for the 2008 Presidential
  Candidate who supports comprehensive sex.
  education in high schools and urge Congress to
  support it for federal funding!

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Works Cited

• McKeon, Brigid. "The Facts Effective Sex
  Education. Advocates for Youth. 2006. 09
  November 2007. http//www.advocatesforyouth.org/pu
  blications/factsheet/fssexcur.htm
• Conclusions Are Reported on Teaching of
  Abstinence. The New York Times. 15 April 2007.
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• Facts and Stats. PBS. 13 April 2005. 09
  November 2007 lthttp//www.pbs.org/pov/pov2005/shel
  byknox/special_overview.htmlgt
• Issues and Answers Fact Sheet on Sexuality
  Education. SIECUS. 2001 August. 09 November
  2007 lthttp//www.siecus.org/pubs/fact/fact0007.htm
  lgt
• The Abstinence-Only Delusion The New York
  Times. 28 April 2007.09 November 2007
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