Lessons On Abstinence Might Lead to Ignorance

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Even in loose and liberal California in the late 1970s, sex education was no inducement to having sex. I still remember the graphic shots of those sores that signaled Stage 1 syphilis, and the thing that looked like a mattress coil and was supposed to go in your uterus if you really didn't want to get pregnant.

Today, many public school sex-ed classes are skipping the birth control information in favor of abstinence. In some schools, pupils learn they should refrain from all sexual activity, even masturbation.

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Lessons On Abstinence Might Lead to Ignorance

So far, there's no good evidence that sex education will help protect anyone from the AIDS epidemic or unwanted pregnancy. Some studies suggest that teens being ta...

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