Sexual Education - Abstinence Analyzing Term Paper

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In comparison to traditional sexual education programs, it provides absolutely no benefit, and conceivably causes additional harm attributable to the deliberate withholding of invaluable information about STD transmission and unwanted pregnancy. As part of its message, it distorts the truth about the relative effectiveness of condom use, thereby only decreasing the likelihood that teenagers who ultimately choose to reject abstinence (as virtually all adults do in our society before marriage) will do so responsibly, by using a condom correctly.

Instead of limiting the scope of sexual education, the effort should, at a minimum, include essential information relating to safer sex practices and effective pregnancy prevention.

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A well-structured comprehensive sexual education program could also provide valuable insight that is generally lacking in society in general, and among teenagers and young adults in particular: namely, the fundamental nonsense inherent in the gender-based sexual double standard.

In addition to undermining genuinely effective sexual education programs, the Bush administration's insistence on abstinence-only programs represent an intrusion of religious values into secular legislation and funding decisions, that under the U.S. Constitution, also violate the supposed Separation of Church and State by virtue of the true origin and political lobby behind the "Family Values" position embraced by this President. Works.....

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