Sex education in canada
Abstinencebased sex programs are divided in two types: Abstinence Only (AO) and Abstinence Plus (A+). These two types of sex education agree that the only way to avoid any kind of sexual disease or unexpectedpregnancy is by not having sex or at least not having sex until marriage. Students in these classes are taught that they should not have sex before marriage. Both kinds of sex education have a strongreligious background and the students are taught based on what their faith says. Virginity pledges, a promise of students to not have sex until they are married, is something common in AO and sometimesstudents use things like rings to remind themselves that they have made a pact. An AO program is stricter and they hardly speak about contraception methods, but when they do they talk about theirineffectiveness and sometimes even give inaccurate information overstating its failures. A+ is a derivation of AO. In this class students are taught on the same basis that they should wait until marriageto have sex. But with the difference that they are also provided with information about contraception methods and how these can be used so they can be protected in case they don’t wait.
Besides AO...
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