USA Sex Education Controversy?

Question

I am not American. I am from a liberal, tolerant (well, mostly) other culture and country.

I just cannot understand all the fuss in the USA over COMPREHENSIVE sex education in schools. When I was 17 and 18 our sex education courses included study of beliefs from the most libertine to the most puritanical. It taught the SCIENCE of the effects of hormones and what these chemicals do to give
young adults overwhelming desires and how to combat them IF WE WISHED TO. It taught how if we wished to give in that the only truly safe way was (no, not with condoms) mutual masturbation, everything else had at least some risk. In fact, one of our texts actually had a chapter teaching (with drawings) how to touch another to give maximum pleasure. The same text was just as explicit about STDs. Why can't Americans bear to have sex ed
classes with this honesty? (By the way, in my culture we have more teen-age sex but 1/2 the teen-age pregnancies and 1/3 the STDs than in America).

Answer 1

It comes down to the values of the collective US in general. The government spends everything they have on the military so they can invade and bomb other nations, steal their oil and pursue global domination as some "superpower". The best way to do this is to spend little on education, keep the voters dumb so that they continue to vote in the current administration. And hey, it seems to be working so I guess they're achieving their objectives eh?

Answer 2

the problem is that by the time we get around telling our kids about how to deal with sexual emotions, they have already heard all or most of it from their friends. Then you have to uneducate and start to educate. I don't know about you, but I would never listen to my parents until I grew up and had to eat some crow
I don't agree with just giving them rubbers and have them go at it like jungle bunnies, but the responsibility of having an unwanted pregnancy has to be passed on somehow as quickly as possible and if the parents won't or can't do it, I appreciate school doing even if they aren't the most qualified.

Answer 3

intercourse education is between the main effective the thank you to sidestep teen being pregnant and STIs. States that don't enable intercourse education have the optimal expenditures of juvenile being pregnant. So if the female Scouts are coaching this (they did no longer whilst i became into in, yet possibly they do now), it fairly is a robust element. As for deliberate Parenthood, abortion is an exceedingly small element of the centers they provide. tens of millions of girls persons, distinctly low income women persons, remember on deliberate Parenthood for known checkups, pap-smears, mammograms, birth control, and extra. i'm unsure what you mean once you assert they're "funded with the aid of abortion." Like I mentioned, abortion is barely between the different centers they provide. no remember what your opinion is on abortion, i think of that deliberate Parenthood can provide a needed and significant function contained regionally, and the female Scouts' connection with them should not be seen as a destructive. I actual have buddies with out scientific well being coverage that ought to no longer get healthcare with out deliberate Parenthood. Why no longer circulate to their internet site and enable them to talk for themselves?

Answer 4

First of all, when you cite statistics it would be wise to include your source data, otherwise we all have to take your word for it. Assuming you are correct and America does indeed have more teen pregnancies and STD's per capita than your mystery country there are a number of reasons to explain it. I don't think it all has to do with what you perceive to be a substandard sex education program. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that coitus=possible pregnancy and possible STD's. I personally think most American kids are just stupid and no amount of education would change it.

Answer 5

I agree. i wish it were that brutally honest so that the teens wont have to think about researching it on their own like I had to.

In the US they teach abstinence...that, is stupid. i asked once "well how do you know if the condom is safe (no holes)or not" and they told me "I can't discuss that with you we teach abstinence only, so condoms are not an issue here.

The reason most condoms fail in our culture may be because the guys have no clue how to put them on in the first place.

whatever country you are in, tell them to send some of their ways of education our way!

Answer 6

Sex education belongs in the home, not in taxpayer supported schools.