Sex education- prevent teen pregnancy
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Speaking about sex, everyone like it right? Okay, I guess I shouldn’t ask that sort of question since its pretty personal, but really…people like it and that’s why most people get addicted to it. Grown up or I should say mature adult understand the risk of having sex, but our teen doesn’t because they are not mature enough to understand the risk of having sex. All the things that go around their head are all about the pleasure. Hey, pleasure is fun, but really, you have to think twice before making any decision. Having intimacy relationship with your partner is not just getting pleasure or have fun but also making commitment that you will be responsible for whatever that troubled after sex, such as pregnancy. On the news a couple of month back, a young lady buried her baby in the back yard after giving birth. It is very heart breaking and I believe that we need to teach our teenagers how to protect themselves from pregnancy. Sex education really start at home, parent should really be talking to their teens about sex…well…if your comfortable talking about it, but most parent isn’t and they rely on their doctors or other health profession to talk to their teens about it.
However, I don’t talk to my parent about it, instead I do research. Most teen rely on the internet now and they get plenty of resource from different website such as the plan parenthood website. Some schools have health classes that most students would attend before graduating from high school and the education bring student the idea about sex. I remember taking health class and our health instructor uses a banana to show us how to put on a condom and why condom should be used during sexual intercourse activity.
1. It helps protect from getting HIV, STD, and Herpes
2. It is 99% prevention from pregnancy
Because condom is 99% prevention from pregnant, there is a 1% chance of getting pregnant. That does not mean that you shouldn’t use it. Out of 1-100 woman and men who use condom, at least 12 are pregnant. Which it is not a lot for most, but most reason why they get pregnant even if they used condom it is because condom breaks. Condom is an inexpensive type of birth control method that is being used every now and then. You could get them free at any health care center or buy them at a nearby pharmacy or drug store.
Well sex education help teen understand the risk of having sexual intercourse and how to protect them from pregnancy if they did?
Yes, I do believe that sex education in school well help prevent teenager from getting pregnant by using protective method of birth control such as condom. It will teach student what different type of protective things that they could use when they have sex and the different type of risk that they might encounter during sex such as STD. But I don't believe that sex education will help prevent teenage from having sex. For my personal opinion, I think that teen shouldn’t be allowed to have any sexual activity with anyone until they are mature enough to understand their risk.
As a health profession, I have some teen coming to me and tell me that after sex they could jump and let the sperms comes out, which I think it’s funny. You know, if it is true, then it would be so nice to jump around and wouldn’t have to waste money buying birth control pills.
Whatever the myth that is being spread around at school by other teen, it is not true…and I guarantee that. Any adult out there, whether they are a health care provider or not, they pretty sure know that jumping around after sex will NOT make the sperms comes out. Some would say, having sex in the water would help prevent them from pregnancy, again it is not true. Some would say, the pull out method would help prevent them from pregnancy, which is a 50-50 if the guys know his body. A lot of time, most couple who did that didn’t work. Why? It is because sperms could still live outside of the body after ejaculation for a minute to a few hours.
Therefore, sex education is a valuable resource for teenagers and even adult to learn the method of preventing pregnancy. Teaching your teen about the type of birth control or protection can help teen from getting STD or going through pregnancy.
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Teenage pregnancy put girls to so much risk. Thank you for sharing this useful hub.
Education in general prevents a lot of bad outcomes. It's mind boggling that parents will teach their daughters from a young age to never ever talk to, or get in a car with, a stranger, but refuse to have the "sex talk" a few years later.
Does cautioning little girls to avoid strangers make them want to immediately seek out a stranger and be kidnapped? Of course not. What it does do is teach them how to avoid being harmed in the event they find themselves approached by a stranger.
To deny the reality that *most* teenagers *will* have sexual intercourse while in high school - some even earlier - and refuse to prepare them for the eventuality is a blatant violation of the responsibility of parents and other authority figures to protect the children in their care from harm in any form.
Far as I'm concerned, denying teenagers access to condoms and birth control pills is endangering a child's life as surely as beating them daily. What a sad state we live in where the first is considered "religious freedom" or "exercising one's parental rights" while only the other is a prosecutable felony.
VERY BOLD ARTICLE.I SHOULD APPRECIATE YOUR GUTS AND OPENNESS IN WHICH YOU HAD ADDRESSED THE ISSUE.IAM SURE AND WISH MORE AND MORE TEENAGERS GET TO READ THIS AND BECAME AWARE OF THE CONSEQUENCES ON UNPROTECTED SEX WHERE MAINLY GIRLS ARE ALWAYS UNDER LOSS
A very useful article. You have a very wise head on your young shoulders.
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Hi Rajan, thank you! :)
I am not trying to rain on your parade but I have simple question: If it is true that having sex education classes in public schools prevents teenage pregnancy, then how would you explain the fact that teenage pregnancy is 900 percent higher than it was before sex education started? And sexually transmitted diseases are 900 percent more prevalent as well since sex education began in public schools.
The primary goal of sex education is not to talk to youth about sex and how it works, but to teach them about sexual morality. Whether these teen attend sex ed or not, they are still going to have sex anyway. You asked, “If Sex education help prevent teen pregnancy and disease, why teenage pregnancy and transmitted disease are higher than it was before sex education started?” Good question that I too have this question pop in my head that I have hard time answering. Is it the education promote student to have sex or is it individual decision? I know it is a simple question but not all simple questions can be answered because there is no right answer. Now explain to me why are kids these days are more sexually active at an early age as 11? Sex education are given to student reaching 10th grade...that is age 16 and by the time they attend that class, they are already pregnant and infected. Budget cut is to blame for lack of resource. Parenting is also a problem.
Since sex education start, you’re saying that sex education program is the cause for high rate of teen pregnancy and disease? What about the lack of resource causing people to get infected by AID/HIV/STD in the 80s? Back in the 80s, five million children and that includes 5000 teen younger than 15 were infected by AIDS/STD, because of why? Is it lack of resource or because of sex education? If these teen are not getting into these material or resource than you think they would not have sex? Do you think it’s a good idea to stop this program and close all the resources on sex? Without this knowledge, you think it would help them from getting infected by AIDS/HIV?
There are so many pros and cons about sex education.
Thank you for the gracious reply. I am a results oriented person. If something works or doesn't work is important. Now when sex education started in the US, the reason for its existence was to reduce teen pregnancy and venereal disease. But statistics show it has been a terrible failure. There are now 9 times more of each than when the programs started.
The church tells a young person to wait for marriage to have sex, the parents may tell them the same thing. But they get to school and they are shown how to have sex, offered birth control—which is like a governmental stamp of approval on fornication—and told "Oh, we know you are all going to have sex anyway. That is what we expect from you. Your parents and the church out just old fashioned."
Is it true that human beings cannot help themselves from having sex as teenagers? Of course we know it is not true. In history billions of teenagers have lived without sex. 77 percent of all American females were virgins when they got married just 45 years ago. The human heart has not changed. The culture has changed.
How did AIDS spread? The truth is that AIDS is the first disease in 500 years where when it was discovered the victims of it were not quarantined. If they had been quarantined it would have saved a hundred millions lives. It was not quarantined because of pressure from homosexual rights groups—the same groups who applied pressure to get the name changed from its original name: Gay Cancer.
I am no fan of Fidel Castro but one thing he did do right was when AIDS was discovered he had everybody on the island tested and those who had it were quarantined. How many more cases do you think appeared in Cuba? ZERO.
I enjoyed your article and your reply even more. Thanks again.
"The human heart has not changed. The culture has changed." I absolutely agree with you as I too love that quote you stated!
I have attend sex education classes in 10th grade, here is how they teach it:
“Okay everyone! Grab a banana and your favorite color choice of condom,” said the teacher. TA would go around the aisle passing out condom and each student would have their banana on their desk. "First, condom is a method of contraception. It act as a shield to prevent pregnancy and sexual transmitted disease. Although it act as a method of birth control, it is only 99.99% preventable. 1% left is small though it can damage you, 12/100 woman who uses condom were pregnant." said the teacher. Overall, if the student is smart, that means condom has no Guarantee and never is.
The teacher than showed the student how to open the condom and how to put the condom on. When it is presented, student were to mimic what the teacher did. After learning how to put the condom on, our teacher would asked us to open up our health book and talk about the disease that condom would prevent. Our teacher never had showed us any video or discuss about "how to have sex". When you said, "they are shown how to have sex" I'm thinking of showing them sex video, where to insert (first time sex, men don't know where the vagina is located), which position is best and deep, the prone, supine, standing, or proctology position? But I think I understand what you meant. Teaching a student how to put on a condom is similar to telling the student it is okay to have sex, your protected.
At the time, taking this in a mature adult series, I do not know how a penis looks like until I sign up into the nursing program that is mid 2007, when I reached college. I don't even know how it even felt, I totally thought its made of bone and not flexible, I even asked my instructor if I touch it, would it break? Overall, its all muscle after I learned it. "My virgin eye got raped by a book" I shouted in nursing class, with good laughter that morning for the first time in my life seeing a picture of a penis.
Anyway, your comment has given me something that I would personally take time to think about. I think if we were to teach student the old fashion way, it would do better in such society like this. I can't honestly blame everything on Sex education in public school but I would too blame on MTV music video, music on radio using such foul language, peer pressure...and kids are exposed to that every single day.
Born with less knowledge and less experience, I bow my head to you with full respect. Thank you so much, I appreciate your time and effort for sending such knowledgeable and useful comment! Thank you!
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I have heard, the United States has highest teen pregnancy in the developed world. Thanks for addressing this much needed issue.
Hi Vinaya, yes...the US has the highest teen pregnancy! Thank you
Stump Parrish Level 2 Commenter 12 months ago
Most of the opposition to sex education here in the south is due to religion. The same group of people who fight so hard to stop abortions, also fight the best way of preventing them. That this makes sense to them simply points out how popular ignorance is. Great hub, voted up and useful, Thanks for posting it.
They have forgotten what it is to be a teenager with all of those hormones racing around their bodies. They actually believe that if you teach a child comprehensive sex education it will suddenly make that child rush out to have sex. I understand that they are incapable of having an intelligent conversation about sex with their children. I don't understand why they are willing to risk their daughter becoming pregnant or contracting aids simply to make them feel better about themselves. Withholding information that could save your child's life is admitting the willingness to watch your child die for your beliefs.