Sex education

Sex education can also be described as "sexuality education," which means that education encompasses all aspects of sexuality, including information on family planning, reproduction (fertilization, conception and development of the embryo and fetus, to birth a child), plus information on all aspects of a person's sexuality including: body image, sexual orientation, sexual pleasure, values, decision making, communication, dating, relationships, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and how to avoid them, and methods of birth control.

Sex education be taught informally, such as when a person receives information from a conversation with parents, friends, religious leaders, or through the media. This can also be delivered through self-help sex author, advice columnist for magazines, sex columnist, or through sex education web site. Formal sex education occurs when schools or health care provider to offer sex education.

Sometimes formal sex education is taught as a full course as part of the curriculum in junior high or high school. Other times only one larger unit in biology class, health class, home economics class, or physical education classes. Some schools do not provide sex education, because it remains a controversial issue in several countries, especially the United States (especially in regard to the age at which children should start receiving such education, the amount of detail revealed, and topics related to human behavior sexual, for example. practice safe sex, masturbation, premarital sex, and sexual ethics).

In 1936, Wilhelm Reich commented that sex education in his time was the work of fraud, focusing on biology while the concealed excitement-arousal, which is what most pubescent individuals interested in Reich added that this emphasis obscures what he believed to be a basic psychological principle: that all worries and difficulties derived from the sexual urge is not satisfied.

When sex education is contentiously debated, controversial point is whether the child's head covering sexuality valuable or detrimental; the use of birth control such as condoms and hormonal contraceptives and the impact of such use on pregnancy outside marriage, teenage pregnancy and STI transmission. Increasing support for abstinence-only sex education by conservative groups has become one of the main causes of this controversy. Countries with conservative attitudes toward sex education (including English and United States) have a higher incidence of STIs and teenage pregnancy.

The existence of AIDS has given a new sense of urgency to the topic of sex education. In many African countries, where the AIDS epidemic on the levels (see HIV / AIDS in Africa), sex education is seen by most scientists as a public health strategy is vital. Some international organizations such as Planned Parenthood assume that programs are extensive sex education has global benefits, such as risk control overpopulation and the advancement of women's rights (see also reproductive rights).

According to SIECUS, the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, 93% of adults surveyed, they support sexuality education in secondary schools and 84% support it in junior high. In fact, 88% of parents and 80% junior high school student's parents believe that sex education in schools makes it easier for them to talk with their teenagers about sex. In addition, 92% of teens reported that they wanted the two to talk with their parents about sex and for comprehensive sex education in schools.