Abstinence only education is a failure on almost every level. First off to expect anyone to remain abstinent is unrealistic. It is human nature to want to have sex, just like it is human nature to want to eat, or socialize. It is just part of being human. I remember my sex education in public school, and looking back on it. I realize it was terrible. The first misstep I remember were separating the girls, and the boys. It was adding fuel to the fire, of this "sex" thing we were all so curious about. I remember each side talking to each other wanting to hear what they learned and vise versa. So instead of learning about the opposite sex from a teacher,we learned about them from our classmates, not a very accurate source. I remember when we discussed sex there was no talk of contraception, of any kind, and everytime they mentioned sex it was always precluded with the phrase when a man, and his wife, or when the married couple have sex, and with wording like that, it completely ignores premarital sex, and homosexual sex. Which is just wrong. This country really needs to dump this stance on sexual education, it leads to nothing but, unwanted pregnancies, and disease. Without proper information, on how to practice safer-sex, or the accommodations to practice safer-sex(i.e. access to condoms, in schools, or health centers) then we will never cut down on the numbers of STI's, or unwanted pregnancies. I personally didn't really know all too much about sex until had access to internet sites, that are run by real sexual educators that don't want to work for the government because the governments stance on sexual education is just terrible.(Just to clarify I'm not talking about personal websites, or blogs. I'm talking about sites run by professional sex educators that want to give teens, a proper sexual education. One example of the sites I frequented were scarleteen.com)
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