COMM 1323-03‚ Rhetoric and Public Speaking Sex Education in the Public School System “How do you teach sex education in order to make the best impact?” (Ewart) I believe that most middle-school and high-school aged children know what sex is. The question I have is‚ do those same teenagers know about the risk and consequences of having sex and how to prevent those risks? “Unfortunately‚ the debate regarding sex education does not end at whether or not it is necessary‚ it continues into
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Mandaluyong City CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF PRE-MARITAL SEX TO TEENAGERS Researchers: Custorio‚ Servino T. Barro‚ Vina Jane CEIT-19-301E/WS 6:00pm-7:30pm Professor: Ms. Leagieren Kates Aquino Thesis Statement: Topic Outline: INTRODUCTION I. Background Of Study A) History of Pre-marital Sex (Sexual history falsification) B) Cultural Views and Religious Views C) Science of Pre-Marital Sex 1. Psychological Perspective 2. Emotional Component 3. Physical
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teenagers have sex before the age of fifteen‚ and by the age of nineteen‚ 7/10 teens have had their first sexual encounter. What makes this even more alarming for North Americans‚ is that European teen are more likely to use contraceptives. That means that teens in Canada and the U.S. have increased risks of pregnancy and contracting sexually transmitted infections. These effects are fairly well known when speaking of teenage sexual intercourse‚ but what causes teens to start sex so early to begin
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Effective Sex Education Each year‚ U.S. teens experience as many as 850‚000 pregnancies‚ and youth under age 25 experience about 9.1 million sexually transmitted infections (STIs).1‚2 By age 18‚ 70 percent of U.S. females and 62 percent of U.S. males have initiated vaginal sex.3 Comprehensive sex education is effective at assisting young people to make healthy decisions about sex and to adopt healthy sexual behaviors.4‚5‚6‚7 No abstinence-only-until-marriage program has been shown to help teens delay
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Sex Awareness Angela Jorgensen Everest University Online Sex Awareness In today ’s society there is a continuing debate over sex education and its influence on our children. Sex has been a part of the public school curriculum and a subject of debate since at least the nineteenth century. With teenage pregnancy rates higher than ever and the threat of the contraction of STD ’s‚ such as HIV‚ the role of sex education in the school is of greater importance now then ever before. Denying children
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You never want to hold me after sex‚ you just go to sleep or watch tv. I didn’t know you would like me to hold you after sex I just figured its relaxing time and that is something that relaxes I thought both of us. You never touch and caress me before we have sex. We never talked about this before; you never gave me indication that you wanted me to do that I just can’t help myself when I am in the mood. You don’t talk sexual to me before or during sex. You don’t talk sexual to me so we didn’t
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American University of Beirut Medical Center between 19-21 November 2003‚ explored university students’ perceptions on those issues‚ with a margin of error of + 2.6%. The poll found that the majority of male university students‚ or 61%‚ approve of sex before marriage‚ compared to a much lower 27.3% of female students. The students in the study were distributed equally by gender and by university over the following five institutions (in each university‚ a random sample of students was selected from
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child to be sexual sexually active till their child is married. But In this society‚ that is impossible. Teenagers are getting pressure to have sex by their peers‚ friends and the media. It’s good to talk about abstain from sexual intercourse‚ but it’s wrong to leave them in the dark about the preventions and the consequences‚ when they do decide to have sex. Sex education should be taught in school. American teenagers have more pregnancies‚ births and abortions than youngsters in any other western
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reduce such pregnancies‚ programs of sex education were instituted‚ initially over strong opposition from parent and religious groups. The outbreak of AIDS has given a new sense of urgency to sex education. In many African countries‚ where AIDS is at epidemic levels (see HIV/AIDS in Africa)‚ sex education is seen by most scientists as a vital public health strategy.[citation needed] Some international organizations such as Planned Parenthood consider that broad sex education programs have
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role into society for women all over. However‚ the battle that seems to keep reappearing over time is the constant struggle between man and women and the fundamental question that still is left unanswered‚ who is inferior? In her novel‚ The Second Sex‚ Simone de Beauvoir discusses the role of women as being oppressed in the views of men who characterize women as “the other‚” a very dehumanizing theory. For ever subject‚ there must be an object‚ “[A]t the moment when man asserts himself as subject
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