I know I am not the sole person in this class who spent the majority of health class giggling when the Nurse uttered the words “penis,” “sex” or any other of the so-called “naughty” words pertaining to the sex education lexicon. However, my immature chuckles are not the single thing I remember from the class. Despite the somewhat awkward vibe I do believe that health class was beneficial when it came to learning about sex education. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your point of view, some Utah representatives would not agree with me. On Tuesday 28th February, 2012 House Bill 363 was passed in Utah. The bill states that schools are only able to talk about sex education if they are teaching abstinence and they forbidden from talking about the use of condoms, family planning, and all forms of Planned Parenthood. According to the new bill promoting no sex at all is the singular way to teach sex education in schools. Planned Parenthood and various other people and organizations oppose this bill and want it to be amended so I guess my question is what are your thoughts? What is the best way to teach young people about sex?
Utah is not the only place in the world that struggles with the question of what is the best way to teach adolescences about sex. A British columnist Peter Hitchens expresses his point of view that sex education promotes sex in the United Kingdom, “the more sex education we have the more sexually transmitted diseases, the more abortions, and the more under age pregnancies we have.” Although this clip is not current I thought it might aid us in our discussion of whether sex education is a good or bad thing?
Video http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/question_time/9509737.stm
Article http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/bill-barring-mention-contraceptives-okd
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