So about a week ago a health teacher close to my district was arrested for showing her students how to properly apply a condom.
I'm not sure about you, but I thought Sexual Education was about promoting awareness and knowledge to teenagers so that if they decided to become sexually active, they were well informed on how to be safe. Since when has it become illegal for teachers to show how to put a condom on? Isn't that part of the Sex Ed corriculum?
While some people may believe that this kind of teaching "promotes sexual activity among teens," I must disagree. I know kids in my school never ran out having sex after health class. It raised awareness as well as the consequences that could come of having sex.
Should teenagers be well prepared for sexual activity? Or should abstinance be the only thing taught?
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If abscenece is the only thing that is taught, it is just going to be defied. And then they will not be properly aware of how to protect themselves.
I think the best way to approach the subject is to combine lessons on safe sex with the mental/emotion aspects of having sex. I never had sex ed in school because I went to a Catholic school and I guess it was considered "innapropriate" but from what I've heard, a lot of schools seem to take the approach of: "Well, having sex is a personal decision, but since you'll choose it anyway here are the condoms." I think it's important for students to know how to be safe, know the dangers and risks, but also not be told sex is something dirty or scary like some abstinance programs may teach.
Abstinance is not 100%. What do I mean by that? Well I've heard of people (no one I know personally) who planned to not have sex until marriage but later changed their decision. They did not know how to protect themselves and had to do some research on their own. But what if they hadn't?
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