d how some guys will lie to girls just so they can have sex. They could also discuss how girls or guys should never mix drugs and sex because the results could end up traumatic. Teachers could also talk about the students self esteem. Most cases show that if a child has low self-esteem, they are more likely to engage in sexual activity earlier than ones that have high self-esteem are. (11.Alexander, Linda. Sex Ed. Coalition) Recently, Dr. Sharon Thompson stated that “fear is a leading emotion that causes girls to rush into having sex.”(12.Weston, Louanne. Teaching Teens to Think before Sex) Another conflicting matter at hand is the media’s influence on sexual behavior. The programs that are shown on television today only promote the opposite ideas of the sex education programs. When a child turns the television on, they then have access to the TV shows that contain sexual matters; they can hear music with subjects pertaining to sex. In the children’s mind, all these things do are promote sexual desires. Television programs are defeating the sex education programs, because the media is teaching kids that sex is okay as long as they use protection. Instead of the media promoting safe sex and abstinence, they continue to show people having sex, and never mention anything about safe sex. The parents are then disabling their children for watching TV programs that contain immoral messages about sex. But it isn’t the children who are doing the harm. They should not be punished for watching TV, because everything we see in today’s society is marketed by sex.In general, sex education has it’s pro’s and con’s. But the reality of the matter is that sex education is our only hope for the future. The sexual educated classes produce as a result, healthy adolescents that are well education and have been taught to think any sexual activity completely through. The reason many sex education classes ha...
