Sex education should be comprehensive, medically accurate, and taught throughout a student's school years. It provides information about puberty, reproduction, relationships, and prevention of pregnancy and STIs in an age-appropriate manner. While values of abstinence can be taught at home, schools should provide students with facts to help them make informed decisions and stay safe. Research shows comprehensive sex education that includes contraception information can help reduce teen pregnancy and STI rates by delaying sexual activity.

1. SEX EDUCATION

2. WHAT IS SEXUAL EDUCATION?
Sex education is the provision of information about bodily
development, sex, sexuality, and relationships, along with skills-
building to help young people communicate about and make
informed decisions regarding sex and their sexual health. Sex
education should occur throughout a student’s grade levels,
with information appropriate to students’ development and
cultural background. It should include information about puberty
and reproduction, abstinence, contraception and condoms,
relationships, sexual violence prevention, body image, gender
identity and sexual orientation. It should be taught by trained
teachers. Sex education should be informed by evidence of
what works best to prevent unintended pregnancy and sexually
transmitted infections, but it should also respect young people’s
right to complete and honest information. Sex education should
treat sexual development as a normal, natural part of human
development.

3. Sex education programs that
are effective:
 focus on reducing one or more sexual behaviors that lead to unintended
pregnancy or HIV/STD infection;
 use social learning theories that have been used by other health promotion
programs that are successful;
 give clear messages;
 provide basic, accurate information about the risks of unprotected
intercourse and ways to avoid unprotected intercourse;
 include activities that address social pressures on sexual behaviors;
 provide modeling and practice of communication, negotiation, and refusal
skills;
 use a variety of teaching methods to involve students and get them to
personalize the information;
 incorporate information appropriate to the age, sexual experience, and
culture of the students;
 last long enough to complete important activities adequately;
 select teachers or peers who believe in the program and provide training for
them.

4. The Two Main Sex
Education Programs
There are two basic types of sex education classes,
and which is taught depends on what your state or
local school district mandates. Your teen will either
be learning the Comprehensive Sexuality
Education or the Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage
Program. These programs represent two
completely different schools of thought. It is
imperative for you to know what your child is
learning so you can be the buffer or the fill-in
person for your teenager.

5. Comprehensive Sexuality
Education
Comprehensive Sexuality Education is a program
that starts in kindergarten and continues through
high school. It brings up age-appropriate sexuality
topics and covers the broad spectrum of sex
education, including safe sex, sexually transmitted
infections, contraceptives, masturbation, body
image, and more.

6. It teaches that sexuality is a natural, normal
part of healthy living. It covers topics such as
sexual expression, relationships, and culture.
It includes accurate medical information on
sexually transmitted infections and HIV. And
although abstinence is addressed, it also
emphasizes strategies to reduce the risk of
unintended pregnancy and sexually
transmitted infections.

7. Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage
Program
Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs
emphasize abstinence from all sexual behaviors
and do not cover information on contraceptives,
sexually transmitted infections, masturbation,
etc. It teaches that sexual expression outside of
marriage could have harmful psychological,
social, and physical consequences.
This program usually does not cover controversial
topics such as abortion or masturbation. It may
address using condoms, but it emphasizes the
failure rates of using them.

8. Sex education is important. It's been
proven time and time again. We know
students who receive formal sex education
in schools are shown to first have sexual
intercourse later than students who have
not had sex education. Sex education does
not encourage teenagers to have sex, it
does quite the opposite.
WHY SEX EDUCATION IS
IMPORTANT?

9. Every teenager should have sex education
incorporated into their schooling. It shouldn’t be
opt-in or opt-out but mandatory. Why should
parents be able to opt their children in or out of a
subject that they'll need later in life, one way or
another? Sex education should be mandatory,
comprehensive, medically accurate, and taught
throughout student's school years, just like math.
It's been shown to help students, not hurt. Not only
is having access to sex education that is not only
comprehensive but medically accurate a human
right; it's our fundamental duty as a society to
educate the next generation. Currently, we are
failing.

10. Here are eight reasons parents should
demand better sex-ed in schools:
1. Comprehensive sex education reduces the rates of
teen pregnancy.
 In a study looking into the sexual risk-taking of teens
ages 15 to 19, students who were were given
comprehensive sex-ed are 50 percent less likely to
experience an unintended pregnancy than those
who are given abstinence-only sex-ed. States where
abstinence-only programs are taught have the
highest rates of teen pregnancy.

11. 2. Abstinence-only programs may be
putting our kids in danger.
 Not only do abstinence-only programs fail to
reduce the number of teens having sex,
they’ve also even been proven to deter kids
who are sexually active from using
protection, like condoms.
 Now take into consideration that in any given
year, one in four young people will contract
an STI and one in four new HIV infections
happens among people ages 13 to 24.

12. 3. Comprehensive sex-ed helps delay
the age of first sex.
Some people say that teaching kids
about contraception encourages them
to have sex, but that’s patently false.

13. 4. Parents tend to be terrible at teaching
kids how to use contraception and need
help from trained professionals.
It’s super important for parents to talk to
their kids about how to use condoms and
other forms of contraception. But parents
often don’t have all the correct information
and instructions, and therefore aren’t able to
give their kids the skills they need in order to
stay healthy.

14. 5. Values about sex can be taught at home,
but facts should be taught at school.
 As parents, we have the duty and right to pass our
values about sex onto our kids. If part of your family’s
values system is waiting until marriage for sex, that’s
fine. But schools should be teaching programs that
prepare all kids to have healthy and happy lives, and give
them facts that will help keep them safe.
 Your kids can learn about safer sex and contraception
and still choose to practice abstinence with your
guidance from home.

15. 6. There are great programs that emphasize
abstinence and prepare students with
information about contraception and
preventing STIs.
 Programs that combine abstinence-until-
marriage information with recommendations for
condom and contraceptive use are shown to
positively impact teens’ sexual health and
behavior by pushing back the age at which they
first have sex, as well as reducing pregnancy and
STI rates.

16. 7. Very few people will actually wait until
they’re married to have sex … even
conservative Christians.
 As much as we want to believe that the traditional
value of reserving sex for marriage can be effectively
passed on to future generations, studies show that
95 percent of people do not wait until they’re
married to have sex. Even among Evangelical
Christians, one of the most conservative groups in
the United States, more people are having sex
outside of marriage than not. A full 80 percent of
Evangelicals report having non-married sex and
churches are starting to catch on by encouraging
safer sex.

17. 8. Even kids who wait to have sex
can benefit from comprehensive
sex-ed programs.
 Most kids will have sex eventually and will use
some form of birth control even in marriage.
A comprehensive sex-ed curricula can help
them when the time is right, too!
 If consent education is included, all kids can
benefit from the empowering message of
bodily autonomy and respect for others.

18.  What’s more, teens tend to rely upon one
another as sources of information about sex
and contraception. While this is not an ideal
way for kids to get their facts, the more
correct information circulating among teens
about contraception and safer sex, the
healthier a community can become.
 Most of us hope our kids will wait until
they’re older to have sex, but it’s time we
faced reality and offered our kids a healthier
sexual education.

19.  I believe that sex education should be taught to
young ones with values – needed to reduce
premarital sex, early marriages and moral depravity.
The youth should be trained to become responsible
and morally upright citizens. Children and youths
should be taught how to cultivate values and how to
admire them. All these should be integrated with sex
education – to help them appreciate the beauty of
sex as a gift of God to mankind in the context of
marriage not from what they discovered from
pornographic magazines and video shows.
Will You Agree that Sex Education
Should Be Taught to Young Ones

20.  Young ones need to be educated early about sex to
become aware and to become more responsible in
dealing with this matter.
 Teaching about sex education should start at home
but parents should refrain from using the word sex to
avoid any malicious meanings that the word may
transport to young minds. They can use synonyms for
it such as male and female gender, femininity,
manhood, manliness, masculinity, sexuality,
womanhood, womanliness and many more.
There are many reasons that sex
education should be taught to young
ones, namely:

21.  Since malice among youths start at a young age,
teaching about sex education is a necessity – to
avoid the young ones to indulge in premarital sex
at early age.
 Aside from home sex education should be also
taught in school.
 Teenagers lives are crucial because this is the time
when they are attracted to the opposite sexes.
Here sex education is a good move for children and
teenagers to let them fully understand the
meaning of their being.

22.  Sex education in schools can help children understand the
impact of sex in their lives. It dispels myths related to sex and
broadens their horizon.
 It can also answer all the questions that they have regarding
their changing body and hormonal surges.
 Children are often inquisitive about the other gender. Sex
education in school can help them understand the differences
and keep the desire to explore things for themselves in check.
 Child sexual abuse is a social malice that is afflicting thousands
worldwide. Sex education in schools can play an active role in
curbing the incidence of abuse as through this medium children
can be made aware of the difference between good and bad
touch.
Pros of Sex Education in Schools

23.  It is much better to teach children about sexual health in
school rather letting them use other resources, such as
pornographic material and the internet. This is important
because avenues, such as the internet have a huge store
of information that might be misleading.
 With problems, such as teenage pregnancies and
transmission of STDs on the rise, it is only appropriate that
sex education is made accessible in school so that the
most number of children can be made aware.
 It transforms children into responsible adults. It is a known
fact that teenagers today turn sexually active, therefore,
sex education can help them understand the benefit of
abstinence in the early years or it can at least teach them
how to be responsible sexually active people.

24.  Mostly teachers who are given the task of teaching sex
education to students are not experts and have vague ideas
about sexual health themselves. This is even more harmful
as incorrect information is extremely lethal as it can actually
leave a wrong impression on the students. Children have an
impressionable mind and incorrect information imparted at
an early age can actually transform them into ignorant
adults.
 Students may still be subject to embarrassment or excitable
by subject matter. If not taught properly, sex education in
school can become a matter of ridicule and students may
not take any interest in it.
Cons of Sex Education in Schools

25.  The fact that in most schools sex education is
treated like an extracurricular course and not a
primary one. If the authorising body is not serious
about it then they cannot expect that students and
teachers will be interested in it.
 Sex education at school may be at odds with the
religious ideologies. Unless these disparities are
sorted out by someone, who is aware of the two
ideologies, sex education at school can actually
confuse the students more.