| MrBubbles said: ref: the questionable study posted being that santorum says contraception is immoral and causing a degradation of society, i think we can safely assume he would go for the variety of program that "typically portray sex and condom use in a more negative light" rather than the torturous sounding 8 hour abstinence classes mentioned. on top of this the increasing sexual promiscuity of kids is definitely not because of the sex ed classes. |
I could be wrong but I suspect the "8 hour class" was probably spread out over several weeks; although the article doesn't make that clear.
I personally don't think it is the "sex ed" that is increasing promiscuity but the lack of arguing for teenage abstinence in these programs that is leading to increased promiscuit. Way back in the day (mid 1990s) we had (about) weeks of sex education classes per year (from grade 4 through grade 10) and we only (really) had about 1 day devoted to contraception; while the vast majority of the time was spent on the consequences of sexual activity (pregnancy, child birth, STDs, etc.). The overwhelming impression that the vast majority of people had leaving these courses was that the consequences of sexual activity at a young age are extreme; which is (essentially) the truth.
The impression I get from the news is that sexual education courses (especially in the united states) seem to be moving away from the ultimately practical consequence focused education that was highly successful in the 1990s to a program that is focused on gender identity and sexuality issues.
