Topic > The importance of sex education - 570

Sex education is a very controversial and sensitive topic among adolescents and parents. However, sex education should be taught in schools and thoroughly online. Sex education should emphasize protection and safety among adolescents, promote abstinence to reduce adolescent sexual activity, and provide factual information about sex and pregnancy on the Internet and in the classroom. Adolescent sex education emphasizes protection and safety. The conflict began at the beginning of the modern era of sex education, around the time the HIV/AIDS epidemic began, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Sex education teaches that condoms are extremely effective in fighting the spread of HIV and many other sexually transmitted diseases. Research shows that this is a much more effective approach than abstinence until marriage education. Abstinence sex education teaches that the only appropriate sexual activity is within opposite-sex marriage, excluding a group of adolescents. Safe sex programs are not based on ethnic viewpoints, but are scientific and medically accurate. They teach teenagers about contraception...