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The document demonstrates and explains why it is crucial to provide young people with comprehensive sex education, including the provision of information about contraceptive and condom use. Themes Sexuality Education
May 16, 2022 · Comprehensive sex education (CSE) is preferred over abstinence-only sex education for obvious reasons. CSE is much more than just “how we have babies” and “birth control”; it focuses on healthy decision-making, respect for the opposite gender, safe sex, ability to consent, and sexual rights.
Nov 16, 2023 · CSE presents sexuality with a positive approach, emphasizing values such as respect, inclusion, non-discrimination, equality, empathy, responsibility and reciprocity. It reinforces healthy and positive values about bodies, puberty, relationships, sex and family life.
Mar 4, 2021 · Sex education during adolescence has centered on the delivery of content (abstinence-only vs. comprehensive instruction) by teachers, parents, health professionals or community educators, and on the context (within school and beyond) of such delivery .
- María Lameiras-Fernández, Rosana Martínez-Román, María Victoria Carrera-Fernández, Yolanda Rodríguez...
- 10.3390/ijerph18052555
- 2021
- 2021/03
May 18, 2023 · There is clear evidence that abstinence-only programmes – which instruct young people to not have sex outside of marriage – are ineffective in preventing early sexual activity and risk-taking behaviour, and potentially harmful to young people’s sexual and reproductive health.
- Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) gives young people accurate, age-appropriate information about sexuality and their sexual and reproductive...
- Sexuality education equips children and young people with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that help them to protect their health, devel...
- Children and adolescents have the right to be educated about themselves and the world around them in an age- and developmentally appropriate manner...
- Many people have a role to play in teaching young people about their sexuality and sexual and reproductive health, whether in formal education, at...
- Well-designed and well-delivered sexuality education programmes support positive decision-making around sexual health. Evidence shows that young pe...
- CSE does not promote masturbation. However, in our documents, WHO recognizes that children start to explore their bodies through sight and touch at...
- There is sound evidence that unequal gender norms begin early in life, with harmful impacts on both males and females. It is estimated that 18%, or...
- By providing children and young people with adequate knowledge about their rights, and what is and is not acceptable behaviour, sexuality education...
- There is clear evidence that abstinence-only programmes – which instruct young people to not have sex outside of marriage – are ineffective in prev...
Apr 1, 2011 · Comprehensive sexuality education holds far more promise for promoting positive sexual behaviors among young people than abstinence-only-until-marriage programs. Yet, the debate goes on about which approach to fund and how medical accuracy clauses should be included in state legislation mandating comprehensive sexuality education.
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Abstinence-only education includes discussions of values, character building, and, in some cases, refusal skills. The sex education debate in America takes on special relevance because sex, and its related health implications, are a reality in the lives of many young people.
