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With so much promiscuity, I think it is wise for high schools to mandate graphic sex education to the students and teach the students how drastically their lives will change when a young girl becomes pregnant.
Also, I think STDs must be discussed openly. Also, birth control must be emphasized. Abstinence is nice but plenty of students lie about it.
I agree sex education should start at a fairly young age in school so as to negate the effect of porn has on children's minds I think they lose a sense of normality
I struggle to see why such young minds need acquaintance with an aspect of life that they have no business engaging in until they are much older. This outlook on sex education runs the risk of being counter-productive. Children’s minds are highly impressionable and to be introducing them to the concept of porn at all is to underestimate their propensity to put this new "knowledge" to practical application. The stage of childhood should be preserved as long as is necessary and this will only serve to truncate it.
In modern society, what you want simply can not happen, and it is unrealistic to expect. Kids are having sex at a young age, and if they are not prepared, they will make mistakes. The average age an individual in the U.S. loses their virginity is between 16 and 17, and if they don't already have a comprehensive education on sex, they run the risk of teen pregnancy and STI's.
Because of this, sex ed should begin in Middle School (I'd say 7th grade) and continue through 8th grade and High School, so that we can make sure that when kids do have sex (because they will), they can be prepared. It may make a lot of people uncomfortable to think about, because ideally we want to maintain the idea of childhood innocence, but ultimately that motivation is simply self serving and does not do justice to the issue at hand, or those at risk.
I think you may have misunderstood me a little. I was not advocating an absence of sex education, I was referring to the age at which it is conducted. Increasingly there are cases being put forth for SE to be introduced below the age range you are referencing - that is, primary school aged children. I believe this is unnecessary and incongruous with the laws established. The legal threshold for sexual activity in countries across the West is no less than 16, yet we are impressing it in graphic detail upon young minds way below that so of course the inevitable will happen. That is something that modern society has engendered, not children themselves so if anyone has been “self-serving”, it is its highly sexed members without which there would be no dilemma to combat.
Such practice amongst children of that age was unheard of in generations past (when coincidentally SE was more modest and teen pregnancy and STIs were not so rife). Having said that ideally I believe such education is something which should be left largely to the parents’ control, particularly as a lot of parents feel discomfort with the state’s handling of that department for the reasons listed.
I'm not saying children should introduced to porn quite the opposite but until you can control the Internet, children will be exposed to unsavoury images, in my experience children who are educated at a young age are far more balanced when they get older I believe you can overprotect children sometimes
Then the onus is on the primary adults around them to prevent that exposure (i.e. parents, teachers etc.). I do not see what is so overprotective about a parent not wishing for their child to be extensively educated about such adult content. Should a child come across it, the parent providing a simple explanation as to why it is inappropriate should be sufficient without launching into a full tutorial on the subject.
underestimate their propensity to put this new "knowledge" to practical application.
Unfortunately, facts say quite the opposite. Children who get sex education don't increase in use of this knowledge and those that aren't taught try to learn about it with hands on experience.
NO NO NO NO NO. No parent, guardian, foster parent, grand parent or any person interested in their young child should want the state teaching their kids about sex in any way shape or form. This is a subject which should be left entirely to the home. At a very minimum, there should be an opt out for those who don't want it for their children. I hear things on the radio being taught in California, NY and other places schools, and think...how on earth would a caring parent allow that to happen? I barely agree with public school, but if we must have it, then at least it needs to stick to reading, writing and arithmetic.
Sex education in state schools goes far beyond basic biology, which they would pick up in science anyway.
Reports by the WHO, NIH, and independent sources have shown that abstinence-only campaigns prove ineffective and can even increase unplanned pregnancies. WHO ReportNIH ReportIndependent report
I would like to support this side of the argument as, anything that is taught , gives rise to an urge of dwelling more on that subject, exploring, brainstorming and a load full of inquisitive clarifications.
By introducing sex education in schools , we are only making a child probably want to try something which is not meant for him at that age. Just like, once a concept of say, algebra is taught in school, children want to solve sums based on it; if at all sex education is introduced, you never know children may go ahead in doing things , they rightfully should not be indulging in! All said and done, we have chapters based on human reproduction taught in biology at school levels, I think that's adequate to quench the thirst of knowledge in that field! Plus, parents can educate their children about the subject by perhaps ,cracking some jokes on it, in the lightest spirit of course.
Lets not do it! This should only corrupt little innocent "impressionable" minds. That should be very bad on our part, expecting kids to mature faster than their normal pace and detract them from their paths. Totally bogus dude!
