Sex Education

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This paper examines how American educators depend heavily on propaganda and persuasion, using statistics or "scare tactics" to discourage students from engaging in premarital or unsafe sex. It debates different methods used to teach of sex education. It looks at why one of the reasons that sex education is so desperately needed is the fervent promotion of sex in the media. Popular media, television programs, movies and news programs use sex as a method of selling products, which in turn influences and promotes sex among the younger generation.

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"Rather than explaining sex and sexuality, along with all of the possibilities that stem from both, teachers choose to disclose the most shocking statistics they can find as a means of frightening students into avoiding unprotected sex, or sex altogether. The "scare tactics" used include statistics about pregnancy rates among teens, single parenting, sexually transmitted diseases, and accounts of the lives ruined by the three. Educators persuade students to fear sex, because it will ruin their lives. This is supported by accounts of young, single parents who are unable to finish their schooling and are often forced to work undesirable jobs in order to survive."

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