Sex Education in High School

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This paper examines the issues relating to sex education programs in high school which has been a controversial subject since its inception. It evaluates how the recent increase in sexual activity among teenagers indicates that the subject should be revisited for further inspection and scrutiny. It shows how opponents of sexual education in schools argue that the subject promotes promiscuity and liberal sexual attitudes in teenage students whereas supporters of sexual education programs believe that they often reduce the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases as well as unwanted pregnancies. It also looks at how these courses often usurp the role of parents in the education of their teenage sons and daughters as well as alternative programs such as abstinence programs which typically promote sex after marriage.

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"Since the 1960s, it is clearly evident that the United States has accepted and often embraced new attitudes towards sex that have resulted in increased sexual freedom throughout the general public as well as in the media. In today's society, sexual topics are discussed in regular conversation, and media events that contain sexual material inundate the airwaves and television sets of America. Americans are willing to accept a greater openness towards sexual behaviors in the media, but when it directly affects their own children, their opinions differ dramatically. Many possess conservative attitudes in which such honesty in the classroom is unnecessary and dangerous, and that any discussion of sex should wait until marriage (Irvine)."

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