Definition Of Current Sex Ed Curriculum - 1104 Words

Chloe Sullivan Ford, Period 3 2/20/15 Current Sex Ed Curriculum If you don’t want your kids to drown in the pool, don’t teach them to swim, hide all of the life jackets, and let’s pretend water doesn’t exist. This is the general underlying concept of the Abstinence-only programs taught in schools across the country. Abstinence-only curriculums are taught in thirty-seven states and is considered the most common method when instructing sex education. I wouldn’t call education though, seeing that only thirteen of these thirty-seven states require the information presented to students to be medically accurate. With a staggering amount of 850,000 teen pregnancies a year and 9.1 million cases of sexually transmitted diseases annually. America†¦show more content†¦These curriculums should be open to identifying with all genders, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. It should address rape culture, what constitutes abuse, and what behaviors are acceptable in a sexual relationship. Abstinence only programs are ineffective. 62% of U.S. males and 70% of U.S. females have had vaginal sex by the time they were eighteen. Humans are primal creatures with biological urges, and assuming that we all have the same morals is outrageous. Abstinence-only programs promote an idea that if one has sex outside of marriage that it is dangerous and sinful. Though our body is a temple, and we must respect our boundaries. Not everybody’s boundaries are the same. Columbia University concluded that virginity pledge programs increase pledge-takers risk of pregnancy and STDs. 88% of these pledge takers initiated sex prior to marriage, they were also proven less likely to use contraception or get screened for sexually transmitted diseases. The Abstinence-only program is instilling humility in culture. Children cannot reach out and ask questions when sex and any kind of sexual desire is ostracized. Sexual activity in high school students decreased noticeably from 1991 to 97, pri or to funding abstinence-only programs. Why did this happen? It wasn’t the government’s grand old testament pitch? It was the introduction of contraceptives. There is nothing wrong with abstinence.