Abstinence Only? No Way!

             While walking down the steps at my high school, I began to wonder what exactly we were going to see at the assembly. After the entire school was seated in the gym, only then did we all realize that we were there for sex education. The presentation began, equipped with skits, facts, questions from the audience, and finally, we were taught how to put a condom on. That was when all hell broke loose. Administrators were furious. My private, Catholic, college prep high school did not believe in teaching safe sex, only in teaching no sex until marriage. At the end of the presentation, the group began to pass out condoms, only to be told that their condoms were not good here, and if Marin Catholic High School students needed condoms, they could buy them on their own time. Going to a Catholic high school had its bright sides, but it also had dark sides. Obviously the school was aware that statistically, about half of its students were sexually active, or had engaged in some type of sex, and yet, because Catholicism did not believe in sex before marriage, they refused to teach students about safe sex. Now, not only are Catholic schools staying firm on teaching abstinence only, but public schools around the nation are now adopting abstinence only programs also.
             Sex education is an important part of national education today. The necessity of sexual education in schools increases yearly, with the number of teens who experiment with sex before marriage rising. The sexual education controversy has been an issue for over a one hundred years, beginning in 1892, when the National Education Association passed a resolution supporting sexual education as a necessary part of national education (Prilick). Sex education programs have been looked down upon and questioned for many years in the United States. In the 1960's the John Birch Society accused sex education programs to be "smut," "immoral," and a "filthy communist plot"(Donovan). S...

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