Sex education in the United States
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Sex education in the United States is taught in two main forms: comprehensive and abstinence-only. Comprehensive sex education covers abstinence as a choice option, but also informs adolescents about the availability of contraception and techniques to avoid contraction of sexually transmitted diseases. Abstinence-only sex education emphasizes abstinence from sexual activity prior to marriage and rejects methods such as contraception. The difference between the two approaches, and their impact on the behavior of adolescents, remains a controversial subject in the United States.
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See also
- Religious views on birth control
- Sexual norm
- Virginity pledge
- Harmful to Minors, a book by Judith Levine, which deals with sexual morality and sex education in the United States
- Permissive society
- Adolescent sexuality
- Is the School House the Proper Place to Teach Raw Sex?, an influential 1968 pamphlet opposing sex education
- Social conservatism
- Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
- Guttmacher Institute
- National Sexuality Education Standards
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