Sex education is the study of understanding the activity, responsibilities, and health of human sexuality. While learning about this topic there are factors that help enhance or diminish the perspective and knowledge of sex education within adolescence. Factors such as the age, school curriculums, and parent’s involvement of an adolescent contributes to the effects and impacts of sexual experiences that an adolescent may encounter. Somers and Eaves (2002) focus on the introduction of sex education and its impact based on...
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Abstract Sex education has only truly been a topic of study for roughly the last 100 years. In its lifetime, thus far, it has morphed and changed into what we know today as information regarding intercourse, reproductive systems, and the consequences of having intercourse-positive or negative. What started after World War I when soldiers were suffering from diseases such as syphilis and gonorrhea, became a government-funded nightmare for educators and sexual health advocates. With the many changes and mandates from...
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Wellness tends to be much more than non-attendant illness or lack of illness it is about health-promoting behavior to be able to progress to your full potential. Health can refer to nonattendant illness and wellness does not refer to just physical health but spiritual emotional and social issues. Social determinants of well-being tend to be the social, cultural, economic, and commercial factors of an individual’s life. The social determinant of health shapes the conditions of how people are born, grow,...
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Sexually transmitted diseases (STD) have recently increased among young people in Australia between the ages of 15 to 24 years old. This exemplified that chlamydia is the most common STI contracted by young people. The rate of chlamydia has tripled since 2001, increasing from 130 notifications per 100,000 to 435 cases per 100,000 (ABS, 2012). This population accounts for 50% of all STDs, despite representing approximately 25 percent of the sexually active population (CDC, 2017). STDs are an infection transmitted...
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Abstract: Sex education is a major contributing factor toward a stable society. Regardless, sex, sexuality and anything related to them is a huge taboo in India. The year 2007 witnessed a huge controversy over sex education for adolescents in India1. The Ministry of Human Resource Development took initiative to include it in the educational curriculum. The initiative faced widespread protests. Several states including Maharashtra, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan to name a few, banned sex education. The present study was...
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Literature Review In our society nowadays, where teen pregnancies and sexual empowerment exist, there is a need for sex education to be brought about. There are too many people that would benefit greatly from those lessons and that would teach a nice and healthy lifestyle. But then the battle of what topics should be taught comes about if it is even being taught at all. The following review of the literature shows evidence on whether sex education is even being...
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Problem statement to the conceptual framework Bartholomew, Parcel, Kok, and Gottlieb (2006), indicated that a rights-based method aids the needs of young people by involving them, thereby making policies and programs more effective and sustainable. This kind of method provides the framework for meeting the actual sexual and reproductive health needs of young people, and not just as perceived by adults. Glacier (2006) restates that beyond the provision of infrastructure and services, adolescents have yet another need, in this case,...
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The aim of this report is to look at the lived experiences of those who have received sex education while at school, and the impacts this education has on people in their later lives. Previous research has been evaluated in the Irish context, yet no research has looked into creating more inclusive sex education in Ireland. This research report will look at the need for feminist-based sex education in Ireland and pose the question; What do young people think of...
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Teenage adolescence can be a callous time for parents and guardians. With raging hormones comes voice adjustments, rebellious attitudes, and puberty. Educating teenagers about sex is a distressing conversation for most parents. Some parents briefly cover the topic with their children, while a portion of parents and guardians do not initiate any conversations regarding sex, risks, or contraceptives at all. Meanwhile, other parents view it as inappropriate for their children to be exposed to sex topics within the classroom at...
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Introduction Since the early days, sex education as a topic has brought up several heated debates in our society. There have been controversies in schools related to the morals behind sex education and how they need to be portrayed in the classroom. However, with the progressive changes in the society we have seen changes in the ways sex education is taught in schools over time. In the early 90’s, the main focus of sex education was inclined towards the concept...
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Sex, it’s one of the most taboo topics within all of the United States, and Americans are obsessed with it: pornography, music, tv shows, even burger commercials seem to contain a certain sex appeal, these elements are seen in everyday life and yet addressing it in any way, especially to our children, seems to mean the deathwatch beetle of moral and civil society as we know it. Cinema is the most visible example of this belief system, with Americans being...
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This paper discusses what is sex education, its types and the importance of sex education in Kyrgyzstan. It examines the fundamentals of sexuality education of society and sexuality education practice in Kyrgyz society. Introduction Every child has thought about how children appear from mothers’ belly, and often, when a child asks an adult such question, the adult feels uncomfortable, ashamed, and even sometimes angry and can shame the child for interest. Often, when children are already studying at school, in...
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Seeing teenage pregnancy being normalized on social media by some people should be stopped and should not be encouraged. It takes so much responsibility to be a mother, and it is not easy to bear a child at a young age. These careless young parents don't know how difficult it is to raise a child. Back in 2019, the 'BatangIna Challenge' was a trend on social media, particularly on Facebook. Surprisingly, many young women participated in the trend, which was...
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Sexual education can be identified as several things. According to Jaafar & Chan (2008), sexual education is the study of the structural, functional and behavioral feature of human reproduction. It covered different aspects, including reproductive health, affection, interpersonal relationship, intimacy, gender responsibility, body images, and most importantly, sexual development. In the words of Spielhagen (2013), generally sex education is education revolving around sexuality, prevention of STDs (sexually transmitted diseases), contraceptive methods such as drugs and condoms, significance of protection, and...
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Are the sex education classes provided in United States public schools teaching the right things? According to the Guttmacher Institute October 1, 2018 update on State Laws and Policies for Sex and HIV Education, in Illinois public schools sex education is not mandatory, but health education including information on HIV is required and it must include medically accurate information on abstinence. When provided in Illinois, sex education must include information on contraception and the negative outcomes of teen sex and...
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Margaret Sanger’s first clinic handed out cervical caps. During World War I, many servicemen were diagnosed with venereal diseases. Due to this, the government responded by placing out an anti-venereal disease campaign. This changed contraception from a moral issue and began making it public health issue and research began. In Europe, soldiers began to use condoms, for which they brought back to the US and readily supported their use. In 1938, the judge lifted the federal ban on birth control,...
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