Sex Education

In 1994 The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) was held in Cairo, Egypt. At this forum, there was an article published called the ICPD Programme of Action (Haberland, Rogow, August 15, 2014, pg. 1), which became known as the Cairo agenda, that urged governments to provide adequate sexuality education for their youth. In…

The public education system has many programs integrated within its system. One of the arguably most important lessons that’s being taught today is the lesson on Sex Education. Although it varies in each state, the main connotation of what type of program is being enacted in schools usually varies from Abstinence Only Education (no sex…

“Each year, half of the estimated 12 million new cases of STDs in the United States are happening among teens.” stated by ashasexualhealth.org . There are multiple risk factors of having multiple partners; there should be some type of knowledge taught to both sexes to promote these risk. Some people agree that sex education is…

There is a policy on sexual education that seems very flawed. Over and over again we have come to the question of what sexual education should be teaching the children and where to actually draw the line. In the article State Policies on Sex Education in schools Blackman and Scotti tell their readers why sexual…

STD rates in Philadelphia are at an alarming level amongst adolescents. Many educational and preventative methods have been put into place to help reduce the amount of teens that contract a sexually transmitted disease. Heterosexual teaching is no longer the only method of sex education, with LGBT Teen rates increasing alternatives to traditional instruction is…

The word condom is probably derived from Latin “condus” meaning receptacle. Another explanation is that the gut condom was invented by the English army doctor Colonel Quondam in around 1645 and that the word is a corruption of his name. We do not know who invented condoms, but we do know that they were in…

.. tegies for educating faculty and students, problems, and tactics for distributing and encouraging the use of condoms among teens who are sexually active. Data collected in 1991 and 1993 suggests that the presence of the condom availability plan did not increase the rates of sexual activity among students, although it may have contributed to…

It has been a problem that many people overlook, simply because they think it does not actually exist! However, sexism is present in our current society today, and is proved perfectly by Alleen Nilsen in her quote stating, Anyone living in the United States who listens with a keen ear or reads with a perceptive…