Should Pupils Recieve Sex Education?

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Controversies are abundant when dealing with such delicate issues and there are many pros and cons to sexual education being taught in the public schools. It seems that most parents are either strongly against or strongly in favor of sexual education classes, but very few parents are in the middle ground. And, in fact, there are more parents that are in favor of sexual education classes.

Apart from offering various pros, sex education has its list of cons as well.

The issue of providing high school students with a quality sex health education has become very acute nowadays especially since the HIV/AIDS problem has turned into a world-wide disaster.

Sometimes student do not know the simplest things about sex and that causes much trouble for them and their sexual partners. In this essay we will study in brief the problem of sex health education.

Pros

Appropriate sexual education can have an impact on preventing sexual problems in adulthood.

Sex education in schools can help children understand the impact of sex in their lives.

  • 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.

* Appropriate sex education in schools has a great impact on preventing sexual problems in adulthood. Also, it teaches students on what is right and what is wrong.

Through sex education, young people are able to communicate, listen, negotiate with others, ask for and identify sources of help and advice when it comes to sexual relationships.

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With children getting pregnant and the STDs we have in our world today, we cannot continue to rely on parents to talk to their kids about sex. Some parents were never taught themselves and are uncomfortable with the subject matter to begin with.

The advantage is that our youth will at least have the education necessary to make an informed decision regarding sexual activites and sexual identity. While many will still choose to take risks, they will at least be informed of methods that may be used to reduce the risk of contraction of STDs or causing pregnancy.

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