The Importance of Comprehensive Sex-Education in Schools Sex is huge, sex is important; everyone cares and has something to say about sex. Sex oozes from every pore of the culture and no kid can avoid it. Are teens getting enough knowledge on sex and how to prevent teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases,(STD’s)? Comprehensive sex-education promotes abstinence but it also includes information about contraceptives and STD’s, while promoting safe sex if a student chooses to engage in sexual activity before marriage. Me, personally, my parents did not give me the birds and the bees talk, but I was afforded the opportunity to take sex-education in high school.
When schools pass items such as condoms around, kids can easily get the impression that it’s okay to use them. In this sentence he is trying to reach out and appeal to the parents, and older adults who have the same feeling as he does. Limbaugh believes that the distribution of condoms is not only promoting kids to have sex, but is also giving them the idea that condoms prevent all the consequences of sex. In the second paragraph Limbaugh states that, “Kids will have sex anyway, and that this logic leads to schools providing drugs, and bullet proof vests.” Although providing drugs may seem a little extreme, and maybe a little crazy, I would have to agree with Limbaugh. If schools are handing out condoms to students, what would the difference be if they are handing out drugs?
If you decide to have sex during this time, it is really important that a condom is used or it is likely the medicine won’t have worked. How do you prevent Chlamydia? The only 100% effective method in preventing STDs is abstinence, but if you’re sexually active, the best way to avoid the disease is to be mutually monogamous with someone who has tested negative for Chlamydia. Condoms also give good protection against the disease. What’s the worst that could happen?
They are safe as well as effective, they are only given to children after being reviewed and approved. They can involve some comfort and pain, but this is what I would rather me and my children go through, rather than being sick with a disease that can be fatal. A person may have an allergic reaction to a vaccination, but this is a very rare side effect. Before child/children receive a vaccine their parents receive brochures that explain the side effects that are possible and explain the benefits to having that vaccine. Doctors just are sticking people with shots because they think it’s the right thing for the children.
Also because abortions are legal then stem cell research should be made legal because if a fetus is already killed then it can still be put to good scientific research and possibly help another human being. Having the topics legal would also keep many Americans from performing these procedures illegally. Pro Choice has many positives to it. The ninth amendment states:
Teenagers adapt to their surroundings in order to live, and in a non conventional sense, reproduce. The adaptations they have to make are a little different, however in a sense, it does include shedding one's skin and growing a new, possibly tougher one. High school students have to adapt to socially constructed levels; height, sexuality, weight, grades, social life, socio-economic standards, the list goes on. In essence, they survive by changing themselves, whether for better or for worse. For most teenagers, school is as much a popularity contest as it is an opportunity to further one's education, maybe even more so.
If these statistics are ignored or downplayed, the probability of a full blown epidemic could become a reality. Safe sex practices should be cultivated early on in the life of a young adult to where those healthy practices are carried on throughout the individual’s life span. Engagement in risk behaviors peaks during adolescence. Adolescents are over-represented in nearly every category of risk behavior, such as drug use, alcohol consumption, smoking, skipping school, and unsafe sexual activities (Baumgartner, Valkenburg, & Peter, 2010). There are numerous advantages to practicing safe sex, the most important is that individual can expect a life free of sexually transmitted diseases that can cause various cancer like cervical cancer for women in the case of HPV, outbreak of herpes spores which can affect an individual for life, Hepatitis B and C, which can damage the liver and cause death and HIV which can lead to AIDS and eventually death.
It is important to practice safe sex with all partners, especially if you or they have high-risk sexual behaviors. STDs is a serious illness that requires treatment. Some STIs, like HIV, cannot be cured and are deadly. By learning more about STDs, we can learn ways to protect ourselves from these diseases. Common STDs • Genital herpes • HIV/AIDS • Genital warts • Hepatitis B • Vaginitis • Chlamydia • Syphilis • Gonorrhea • Trichomonias OPINION: Since the STD seems to be very dangerous and highly communicable therefore we should follow proper measures/precaution to reduce it.
Another method is a condom. A condom fits over the male erect penis, to protect both partners of any diseases that may possibly exist. It is also vital to buy the right kind of condom. Some condoms are porous, which means bacteria can travel through the holes as well as sperm. A good condom would be one with a small latex tip to avoid breaking of the condom.
They need to know the short and long term effects of these infections, which are the most common and which are the most dangerous, and the difference between viruses and bacterias. Students need to know how they can be contracted, and how to treat them. Schools provide information about STIs that would be very hard to come by outside of school. Teachers often show their students pictures of the infections, which can be startling but are also affective. Kids would often think to themselves: that would never happen to me.