Why are people SO opposed to s*x education for young people?

Question

The question "am I pregnant?" has appeared 421,858 times on YA. Obviously we are dropping the ball!

Answer 1

After reading some of the answers and seeing that some of the people think that young people are getting adequate s*x education, I am prompted to answer and defend your question.

When young girls are giving oral s*x to boys and saying, "It's not the same thing as having s*x", it is way more than obvious that their s*x education is lacking.

This is a time and age when s*x education should be the top priority of every parent and educator.  It used to be that herpes was one of the worst things that could happen to our children.  Now we have HIV/AIDS, which can be a virtual death sentence.  I have encouraged many teens and young adults to make their first date a trip to the health department.

Answer 2

People are opposed for a number of reasons - some for religious reasons, they believe no one should have s*x before they are married, teenagers are obviously not married, therefore they should not have s*x.  

Other people feel the same way, but just out of sort of prude reasons rather than strict religious ones.  

Both of the above groups, plus a third group who are not so much  morally as practically opposed, seem to think that if young people do not know about s*x, they cannot have it.  (Obviously this doesn't really work so well...)  Or, conversely, they believe that talking about s*x will cause teens to have more s*x.  

It's a moral hysteria combined with a total lack of logic about what information does/does not cause.   Plus a lack of recognition of the fact that people in their teens and twenties are going to have s*x.  Better that they have the information necessary to protect themselves.  

People opposed to s*x education are ignoring a reality.  In reality, there are two scenarios:

1) young people are having s*x, but they are totally uninformed, so some of them inevitably are getting pregnant and/or spreading diseases

2) young people are having s*x, but they have the necessary information, so many more of them are able to avoid pregnancy and STDs.

The people opposed to s*x ed mistakenly believe there is a third option:

3) If we just tell them not to have s*x, they won't!

Yeah... Right.

Answer 3

i dont think they are. there is s*x education in most school systems from 6th grade till 12th. i wouldnt say thats exactly shying away from the subject. kids are just ignorant and dont listen, their loss.

Answer 4

-Parents are opposed due to the fact that if their child becomes aware that it's "socially okay"  then they will start having s*x earlier.  

-Religion (as above... parents do not want their children having s*x before marriage.)

However, I feel strongly that every child once they reach the age of 12 or 13 need to know how to protect themselves from getting pregnant or catching a sexually transmitted disease.  Ignorance is not an excuse!  We need to inform people so they can protect themselves.

Answer 5

because, people feel like young, unmarried people should be completely abstinent, and therefore, do't need to know abiut s*x. the probem is, this is not reality; younger and younger people are having s*x. the least schools can do is make sure kids keep themselves safe. but because some schools don't offer s*x ed, and some parents don't want to talk to their kids about it, the result is teen pregnancy and worse.

Answer 6

The fear that education itself will provide a pool of qualified participants for study or possible incorporation in extended studies and or reqruitment.

All one has to do is be aware of yearbooks....

Answer 7

Ironically, it's those who claim to oppose abortion most strongly who are also the reason we don't have complete and accurate s*x education (which would be the best abortion-preventative).

Why?

They hate s*x, and are convinced (despite mounds of evidence to the contrary), that education is basically telling the young "Boff each other! Boff often! Boff everyone!"

In fact, the more the young know, they less likely they are to have s*x young, and to succomb to pressure from others to have s*x (like young girls giving in to boyfriends, when they really don't want to yet).

Yes, we've dropped the ball. "Abstinence-only" s*x pseudo-education took over.

You can see it more strongly in the incidence of STDs.

As well as in "you can't get pregnant the first time" and other commonly-spread myths amoung the young.

Answer 8

yeah you're right. It seems to be such "forbidden knowledge" and it's causing a fault!

Answer 9

In our society, advertising and the media send messages to overindulge in everything. Money, s*x, food, ect. It's all thanks to American business. The bigger the better. The more the merrier. People need to start controlling themselves. We're all becoming sick, uncivilized animals.

Answer 10

finally..

BRAINS

oh btw.. im 12, am i pregnant ??

:) just kidding.

Answer 11

lmao

i definetely think we need to know these things

its better to know than to learn thru our mistakes

Answer 12

Because they are prudes.  For some reason they think that if it is taught in the schools that young people will be more inclined to have s*x.  What they are refusing to recognize is that when those hormones start to rage and they are raging sooner and sooner nowadays young people are going to start having s*x so s*x education and access to birth control should be done because they are going to be doing it anyway so they should be safe and taking steps to avoid unwanted pregnancies.