Essays on Sex Education

Adolescence can be a very confusing time for young people. It is a time when children begin making important decisions about relationships, sexuality, and sexual behavior. Decisions made at this age can impact one’s health and well-being for the rest of their life. Sex education...

The importance of effective sex education to children should never be underestimated. In fact, I firmly believe, that they should be taught about this critical aspect of human existence. I am also convinced that our children must be educated by persons who are capable and...

Throughout the history of American society, it has become more sexually dominated than it was in the past. The media portrays more risque and adult themes even though public schools are teaching abstinence-only curriculum. For as sexually dominated as American society is, sex is still...

In our day the internet can provide an answer to any answer or any information that a person searches for, including children, and many children are curious about what life has to offer. That is why they search the internet and learn things that could...

Puberty and sex are indeed sensitive and tricky topics which often people really never want to talk about. This is especially true in an African home where the word ‘sex’ is a complete taboo. I write about an African setting because being an African, I...

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are a group of diseases that can be transferred from person to person or between sexual partners through sexual intercourse. These diseases travel via semen, sperm, blood or vaginal fluids from one person to the next through sexual contact, and from...

Tamera Kreinin, the president of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, who is also an active advocate for comprehensive sex education, once stated, “Young people are going to learn about sex, and our question has to be where do we want...

Like in most coming of age movies and shows, today’s teenagers are obviously adapted to either one of two distinct sexual lifestyles: highly virtuous or extremely confident and promiscuous. In contrast to the mass media and such interpretations of pubescent sexuality, the Netflix show, Sex...

There are many concerns about youth sexual education nowadays, just as it were many years ago. Whether it is in Canada or any other country, there will always be questions whether sexual education provides adequate preparation for children and youth to begin their intimate journeys....

As children develop, they amass information over a long time around an assortment of subjects to plan them for long haul. Children learn from guardians (guardian here means parents); schools, life encounters, what they observe and other influences around them, and it can be either...