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|Abstinence message: Is the abstinence-only message appropriate? |
|Abstinence-only helps youth avoid emotional damage of sex Robert|Comprehensive sex ed rightly teaches about sexual pleasure. |
|Rector. "The Effectiveness of Abstinence Education Programs in |Susan Wilson, a US school teacher, said to a reporter from the ||Reducing Sexual Activity Among Youth". Heritage. 8 Apr. 2002 - |Atlantic in 1994, "it is developmentally appropriate for |
|"Young people who become sexually active are vulnerable to |teenagers to learn to give and receive pleasure."[1] |
|emotional and psychological injury as well as to physical |Abstinence-only wrongly teaches suppression of sexual impulses. ||diseases. Many young girls report experiencing regret or guilt |Individuals should not deny their natural sexual impulses. If an|
|after their initial sexual experience. In the words of one |individual has a strong desire to have sex, they should probably|
|psychiatrist who recalls the effects of her own sexual |pursue that desire, albeit responsibly. Teaching teens that sex ||experimentation in her teens, 'The longest-standing, deepest |is wrong, forces them to believe that their natural sexual |
|wound I gave myself was heartfelt; that sick, used feeling of |impulses are wrong - causing great confusion and self-doubt - |
|having given a precious part of myself--my soul--to so many and |and causing the needless and frustrating suppression of sexual ||for nothing, still aches. I never imagined I'd pay so dearly and|impulses. Instead, teens should be taught that these impulses |
|for so long.'" |are natural and beautiful, and should be helped in the process |
|Comprehensive sex ed fosters an irresponsible sexual culture |of understanding and channeling these impulses. This will help ||Comprehensive sex ed and forms of contraception such as Plan B |teens live a more fulfilling life, opposed to a life of |
|make it appear acceptable to have rampant sex without taking |self-denial. |
|full responsibility for unintended pregnancies, among other |Abstinence-only sometimes encourages oral/anal sex alternatives.||possible consequences. |"[Teenagers making virginity pledges] were just as likely, the |
|Abstinence-only promotes healthy, fulfilling relationships. |study found, to contract STIs as the teenagers who had sexual |
|Valerie Huber. "Opposing view: Abstinence works". USA Today. 30 |education in their history. Not only this, but the pledges were |
|July2007 - "Abstinence programs offer a holistic approach, |more likely to engage in risky behavior, such as anal and oral |
|teaching teens how to build healthy relationships, increase |sex, because they associated virginity with vaginal sex." |
|self-worth and set appropriate boundaries in order to achieve |Sex-ed empowers informed decisions about risks of sex ||future goals." |"Editorial: Abstinence-Only Sex Ed". The Philadelphia Inquirer. |
|Abstinence-only discourages youth sex and risk-taking Robert |1 Sept. 2008 - "While teen pregnancies have fallen recently, |
|Rector. "The Effectiveness of Abstinence Education Programs in |sexually transmitted diseases, especially among young girls, ||Reducing Sexual Activity Among Youth". Heritage. 8 Apr. 2002 - |have been on the rise [...] A study earlier this year by the |
|"Young people who become sexually active enter an arena of |federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that |
|high-risk behavior that leads to physical and emotional damage. |one in four young women ages 14 to 19 was infected with at least|
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