Sexual Education Vs Comprehensive Sex Education

Sexual education is when students are not only being taught about sex but relationships and decision-making. The two main approaches are comprehensive and abstinence sexual education. Comprehensive sexuality education is when students are being taught about both abstinence and how to use condoms and contraceptive methods. Abstinence education is when students are taught to wait for sex until marriage. The debate between the comprehensive and abstinence method is that abstinence is dealing with a child belief and comprehensive is dealing with the teaching and safety of sex. Comprehensive is a necessary method because it gives the teens a choice and responsible of them wanting to wait to have sex or not.

According to the North Carolina curriculum,

Students will most likely limit or have no sex until they are ready. They would be more open and relaxed about the subject. The main advantages are that sex ed will stop children from having babies and STDs. An adolescent can see how sex can change their lives in a positive and negative way. Children will be open to asking questions about the changing of their bodies and hormones. They can have a better understanding of both female and male anatomy. Therefore, a student can know what is appropriate and inappropriate touching on the opposite sex. If the school doesn 't educate the children, many will go to misleading sources such as pornography or anything else on the internet. According to Pros and Cons, “it is a known fact that teenagers today are sexually active, therefore, sex education can help them understand the benefit of abstinence in the early years of it can at least teach them how to be responsible sexually active people” (Pros and Cons). Students who receive condoms are mostly to use them or not have sex. Most parents do not know what to begin with when they talk to their child about sex so it may be up to the school to educate them if the parent approves. “It has to be done in the context of helping them develop expectations for themselves and their lives that will cause them to make decisions that

Which leads to “some parents, politicians, and educators have questioned whether making condom available should be the job of the school” (Ascd). This group feels that school is for learning subjects such as math, reading, and others not learning how to put on condoms in science class. But little do these people know high school is the main places to inform about sex and give condoms because there are teachers and educators that are ready to inform students. Sex education and condoms will help increase teen sex, this is not true because United States teens are having sex at a younger age without using some type of protect from STDs and pregnancy. Some children may think it 's ok to have sex just because they have a condom but a condom is not always hundred percent. This statement is hard to swallow but it 's the truth and the youth needs to hear the true. Students wait longer for sex when giving the right