Comprehensive Sex Education Should Be in High Schools

Comprehensive Sex Education Should Be In High Schools

In 2006, Ramey & Young’s studies showed that nearly 19 million Americans were revealed to have new diagnoses of STIs with almost half of them being between the ages of 19 and 24. Many teenagers are preparing for their futures during these ages and many of them might not have had a sex education class during their high school years. According to Ramey & Young 1997, teenage pregnancy has also shown a rapid increase with teens’ ages 15-17 growing 4.0% and teens’ ages 18-19 growing a whole 6.0%. STIS, teen pregnancy, and personal health are all ways in which a teenager might find a way to ruin their lives if they are not properly educated. Sex education classes can teach young adults to stay away from diseases and to learn everything they need to know about pregnancy, being safe with sex, personal health, and preparing for their future encounters with sex. However, comprehensive sex education courses can be looked at as pressuring students to have sex, leading to students having more sex, and giving students information their parents feel they should be learning from other sources.

A 2008 study by Finkel M & Finkel S estimated that 1 in every 4 teenage women, or 3.2 million 14 to 19 year olds has a STI, including chlamydia, herpes, trichomoniasis, or human papillomavirus. From this information, many people may see that STIs are being spread throughout the country. Comprehensive sex education can teach young teenagers about many different things such as how to protect from getting an STI. This is important because many young adults are complicating their lives and even putting their lives in danger by not learning about the diseases they may come encounter with. Through sex education classes, many young teenagers will be informed about these diseases. Although this will not completely stop the teenagers from getting an STI or STD, many of them will be educated about it and there will be more of a chance that they will make a better decision when the time comes.

As shown by Wright Jr., and Cullen (2001) homophobia is the irrational fear and hatred of homosexual individuals. Many students in high school have been studied and the data has shown that a lot of them are afraid of homosexual individuals. Human sexuality courses help students to change their negative views into positive views as shown in This can be talked about in a comprehensive sexual education class and it can help students to become more comfortable with others sexual identities. Comprehensive sex education classes will provide information on homosexuals and it can also help students to express themselves a lot more. This is important because not every student has the same views about their other piers sexualities and they might not have the same mindset on homosexuals. In the comprehensive sex education class they will be able to learn about everyone’s