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Sex Education

Sex Education. Judy Carman Frank Dunn John Hjelle Sean Joyce Whipp. Prelection: What Are We Talking About?. What’s the issue? (Sean) The issues are many and personal, cultural, political, educational, familial, moral and religious.

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Sex Education

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  1. Sex Education Judy Carman Frank Dunn John Hjelle Sean Joyce Whipp

  2. Prelection:What Are We Talking About? • What’s the issue? (Sean) • The issues are many and personal, cultural, political, educational, familial, moral and religious. • Specifically, how does this affect schools? (Frank and John) • Things to consider: STDs, pregnancy, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation. • Sex ed in school: pro and con (Judy) • Our thoughts (collective braintrust)

  3. What’s the issue? (personal and familial) • Reality #1 (of four): • What’s in the bag? • Nothing but shame and embarrassment • If we feel this way, how do you suppose a 13 year old feels? • Additional burdens: • Gender identity issues (W. Meredith Bacon) • Sexual orientation issues (Bill Glenn)

  4. What’s the issue? (Cultural) • Reality #2: • What’s on the board? What does it mean? • magazine covers (SI and Cosmo) • What does our society say about what it means to be a man or a woman? • Merchants of Cool (mook and midriff) • What happens when teensperceive that others (friends/siblings) are having sex?

  5. What’s the issue? (Society and Culture) • Reality #3: • You wanna “hook up” • What are our students’ patterns of sexual behavior? • Half empty or half full? • Teachable moment or a time for despair? • What do these behaviors say about power and (in)equality and gender?

  6. Many teenagers experience pregnancy and STDs • More than 800,000 women younger than 20 become pregnant each year • 80% of these pregnancies are unintended • Nine million teenagers and young adults acquire an STD each year • Two young people every hour become infected with HIV Guttmacher Institute

  7. U.S. teenagers have higher rates of pregnancy, birth and abortion than teenagers in most other developed countries

  8. In Nebraska? • 2004 Sexually Transmitted Diseases Statistics

  9. What’s the issue? (Political and Educational) • Reality #4: • What’s the bottom line? ($$$) • Since 1996, ~$1Billion in federal funding • What’s the catch? (but some say it isn’t a ”catch”) • Only funds abstinence-only programs • Some studies shows that AO programs may (not) postpone teen sex, but also result in more risky behaviors. • Some states are now rejecting federal funds althogether

  10. Most school district policies promote abstinence Districts with a sex education policy

  11. There is a large gap between what teachers believe should be covered in sex education and what they actually teach

  12. What’s the issue? (Moral and Religious) • Realities #5 -  • We won’t be covering them due to time constraints, but they might include: • Catholic doctrine and the requirement to teach in conformity with the Church • Morality of comprehensive sex education • How much do you include in “comprehensive?” • Racial, economic, and gender disparities • Inclusion of sex ed, or a separate sex ed class?

  13. Now to some specifics • John and Frank will discuss: • HIV, STDs, Pregnancy, Gender Issues, and Homosexuality as they relate to schools and children

  14. Physical Health Issues • Hygiene

  15. Hygiene • Deodorant • Showering • Hand Washing • Brushing Teeth

  16. Physical Health Issues • Hygiene • STD’s

  17. Sex Stats • Over 50 percent of students will have sex before graduating. • 16 percent will have 4 or more partners in High School.

  18. STD’s HIV Disease Lymphogranuloma Venereum Molluscum Pediculosis Pubis Pubic Lice (Crabs) Salmonella Scabies Shingellosis Syphlis Trichomoniasis Yeast Infection Vaginitas TO SLIDES • Amebiasis • Bacterial Vaginosis • Campylobacter Fetus • Candidiasis • Chancroid • Chlamydia • Condyloma Acuminata • Cytomegalovirus • Enteric Infections • Genital Mycloplasmas • Genital Warts (HPV) • Giardiasis • Gonorrhea • Granuloma • Hepatitis Herpes

  19. Some Statistics • U.S. Center for Disease Control (2003) • 40,000 New cases of HIV a year • 20,000 Infections occur in those under 25 • 10,000 Infections occur in those under 22 • 12 Million cases of STD’s are reported each year • 3 Million occur among Teenagers

  20. Physical Health Issues • Hygiene • STD’s • Teen Pregnancy

  21. Teen Pregnancy • Ages 15-17 • 281,900 Pregnancies • 84,770 Abortions • 157,209 Births • 39,920 Miscarriages • Ages 14 and Under • 19,640 Pregnancies • 8,560 Abortions • 8,519 Births • 2,560 Miscarriages • National Center for Health Statistics of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

  22. Physical Health Issues • Hygiene • STD’s • Teen Pregnancy

  23. Abstinence or Sex? • Now Judy will discuss the pros and cons of different school curricula

  24. Pro Sexual outcomes, knowledge, and attitudes are most influenced by family, schools, and peers. Sex Ed in the schools promotes positive, healthy, and skillful attitudes toward sexuality. Young people deserve open and honest sexual health information Con Abstinence is the only 100% effective approach to individual safety. Parents should be the only providers of Sex Education. More education is related to more sexual behavior and promiscuity. There is no form of funding for this type of education Sex Ed: Should We or Shouldn’t We?

  25. In conclusion • Some closing thoughts • Questions?

  26. Bibliography • ABC News. (2005, November 26). Transgender professor becomes a woman: wife stays with spouse despite gender change. Retrieved June 6, 2006, from http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1347784. • Coburn, Tom & Lee, Barbara. (2005, September 16). Pro/Con. CQ Researcher, 15, 32. • Comander, Lauren. (2005, December 5). Together. Forever. People, 64, 197-200. • Denizet-Lewis, Benoit. (2004, May 30). Friends, friends with benefits, and the benefits of the local mall. The New York Times, Section 6 Col 1, 30. • Friedman, J. (2005, September 16). Teen sex. CQ Researcher, 15, 761-784.

  27. Bibliography, con’t • Glazer, Sarah. (1993, May 14). Preventing Teen Pregnancy. CQ Researcher, 3, 525-550. • Glenn, William D. (2001, May 21). As God intended. America, 184, 26-30. • The Allan Guttmacher Institute. (2005, July). Sex Education: Needs, Programs and Policies. Retrieved June 6, 2006, from http://www.guttmacher.com/presentations/ed_slides.html. • Haffner, Debra W. (1995). Facing facts: sexual health for Americas adolescence. Sexuality Information and education Council of the US. N.Y., New York. • Nebraska Health and Human Services. (2005). 2004 Sexually Transmitted Diseases Statistics - Nebraska Females and Males. Retrieved June 6, 2006, from http://www.hhs.state.ne.us/std/std04at.htm.

  28. Bibliography, con’t • PBS Home Video. (2002). Merchants of Cool. See also:http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool. • Rajani, Nicole & Starkman, Naomi. (2002). The case for comprehensive sex education. Aids Patient Care and STDS, 6, 7. • Somers, Cheryl L. & Surmann, Amy T. (2005, February). Sources and timing of sex education: relation with American adolescent sexual attitudes and behavior. Educational Review, 57, 37-54. • Wilson, Robin. (2005, October 7). Second Sex. Chronicle of Higher Education, 52, A10-12.

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