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This is for all those "holier than thou" types who feel that sex ed contributes
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to sexual activity at an early age. Read on, unbelievers!
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Reprinted without Permission from the K-W Record, Dec 16, 1993
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"Sex Education not linked to promiscuity"
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Sex ed in schools does NOT lead to earlier or increased sexual activity in
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young people, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) analysis of 35
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studies conducted in the U.S. and other countries.
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"The belief that sex and AIDS education may encourage sexual activity in young
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people is a powerful barrier to the introduction of HIV prevention programs for
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youth," said Michael Merson, Exec Director of the WHO Global Program in AIDS,
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referring to the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS. "Yet all the
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evidence we have looked at suggests that the opposite is true."
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Of the 35 studies reviewed by WHO, 16 indicated that sex ed led to a DELAY in
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starting sexual activity; in those who were already sexually active, there was
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a decrease in sexual activity or increased use of safer sex practices.
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Seventeen other studies showed that sex ed was linked to neither an increase or
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a decrease in levels of sex activity.
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The WHO survey also found that programs promoting both postponement of sex and
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protected sex were more effective than programs that taught the value of
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abstinence alone.
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End of article.
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Hmmmm, well zealots, what say ye to this? Certainly abstinence alone is not
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enough because the reality is that people are just plain having sex and a
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younger age without knowing all the facts! SOLUTION: Get condom machines into
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the damn highschools so that the adolescents who ARE active can have access to
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them without feeling embarrassed and then using NO protection whatsover. Think
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of how many unwanted teen pregnancies MIGHT have been prevented had the
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Ministries of Education taken a proactive stance on this issue!
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Jason Sack
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P.S. I hate my own university's hypocritical views on this issue -we have
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hundreds of $$$ spent on "awareness" seminars by the Students' Council, the
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University Admin and the Residence Admins, but the only condoms available
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on-campus for purchase are in the 2 campus pubs and they are those cheap, thin
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condoms with names like "Arouse" and other two-bit bargain basement 'domes. If
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the UNIVERSITY was serious about this issue and preventing STD's and AIDS, and
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unwanted pregnancy, they would insist on having condoms which are of a better
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reputation available on-campus like SHIELDS, SHEIKS, TROJANS and other
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reputable brands, not this cheap crap! Hyprocites, I say!
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