Sex Ed:Opinions Please :]?

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I am doing an argumentation paper on if Sex Education should be encouraged or discouraged. Part of it is getting others opinions. I need both sides of opinions. All the info I need is:
-Female or Male
-Country [would be very much appreciated]
-If you are pro sex ed or against it.
-Your reasoning for your opinion [the more information, the better. I want to hear it all, so don't be worried about if I agree or not.]
-Personal experiences? [Optional]

Thank you so very much. If you want to know my opinion or anything else, I would be glad to send you my paper if you wish. Email me or add me as a friend. :D
 
Female
USA
Depends

It depends I am against sex ed for elementary and junior high students. I believe they are to easily persuaded and would be more apt in trying it after learning; however I believe high school aged kids should be educated to decrease teen pregnancy.
 
Female
United States
Pro Sex Ed

I think sex ed classes are must. Not enough parents out there that are teaching their children about sex and the different ways they can protect themselves. I also like the thought of someone teaching teens the proper use of condoms and other birth control methods. Also not all parents are comfortable talking to their kids about sex, so with the sex ed classes teens who's parents are uncomfortable talking about sex learn some basics from an adult not from other teens who have no clue what they are talking about.

I think the more information teens have the better off they are. I think its good for them to know about pregnancy, std's, and other things that come from sexual experiences.

The one problem i found when i had sex ed is that the teachers need to give more information. Like what is aids, hpv, herpes, genital warts, pregnancy. They need to give these teens in these classes the bad side of sex like incurable diseases. Also how to know when a condom is outdated, etc.
 
Female
USA
Pro-sex education

Sex education below the Mason-Dixon line is a complete joke. Here in the Bible Belt, it's abstinence-only education (well, at least now it is). Back when I was in sex-ed, it was maybe ONE day of explaining condom usage or lightly breezing over birth control pills, but other than that they attempted to scare us, using videos of worst-case scenario STD cases. Hell, I got a better explanation of how to feel myself of than how to protect myself from those STDs. I think that sex education should go over everything, from condoms and hormonal birth control to how to deal with a teenage pregnancy (and the options for that, whether it be keeping it, giving it up for adoption, or having an abortion). Sex education right now is a complete and utter joke, and it needs to be refined.

Other than my personal experiences above, I learned so little in sex education that I was forced to use the internet to research my questions, just as many teens do in the Adolescent section here on Yahoo! Answers. Maybe if our sex education was better, kids would know all these insane questions they're asking.
 
-Female.
-Obama Nation.
-Very much pro sex ed.
-Teenagers need to know about sex, and they need to know how to prevent pregnancy. A lot of schools teach abstinence, and that's just stupid. We're teenagers, we're going to have sex. So we need to know the consequences of it and how to prevent those consequences. The schools will say that we need to leave it up to the parents, but parents will also teach abstinence, and their kids have no idea that they're supposed to protect themselves.
-Teen mom. My mistake was not caring enough to use a condom, thinking I was invincible, and knowing that the man I was with was the man I would spend the rest of my life with. Luckily I got pregnant at 17, instead of being like all these other kids and getting pregnant at 12.
 
Female
Scotland
Pro sex ed

Hey, i totally agree with sex ed being taught younger!
Im 21 and at school we werent taught much at all, sex ed should be taught more in depth ie more about sti's instead of just about periods.
From what i can remember at school we had an afternoon learning about period, pads and tampons!! It should be taught from a younger age on the dangers aswell as the good things, i feel that if we werent made to feel like sex was a"forbidden Fruit" as youngsters then our opinion of sex would be a lot higher!! Everyone will try it, but its just trying to get people to hold of instead of rushing into it!!

Well thats just my opinion, really interesting question tho !! x

Good luck with ur paper!! x

Stephanie x
 
Female
USA
For It

I would love to say that I was against sexual education being taught in schools. However, since a lot of parents don't take the time to actually sit and talk with their children about sex, STDs, or anything else of the sort, I think it's good that it is taught in schools. If it wasn't where would these kids learn it? On the street when they are out having sex and end up with an STD or pregnant?

I would prefer that it would be taught more or less to the realities of sex and not "this is how you put a condom on". When I was in school sex ed started at 6th grade, and I think that is an appropriate age, anything younger seems inappropriate as kids that young shouldn't know anything about sex in my opinion.

I was in a pregnancy center group that went around to high schools 9th-12th graders and taught sex ed classes, talked about STDs, emotional hurt, the effects of adoption and abortion, and really just got down to more than 'sex is fun, here are condoms'.


If it were a perfect world, sex wouldn't be promoted at such a young age, parents would have real relationships with their children, and tons of teenagers wouldn't be out getting pregnant.
 
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