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Gay/Lesbian Studies: Sexual Education The Term Paper

A modern comprehensive sexual education program should begin before most students have already begun experimenting sexually rather than afterwards. Likewise, it should include appropriate focus on ethical values and moral concepts that relate directly to sexual patterns and choices and to the reality that many students will become sexually active sooner more than later. To the extent is includes information about sexually transmitted disease, pregnancy, and birth control, it should do so within a framework that acknowledges earlier onset of expected sexual experimentation consistent with current social trends.

Finally, the comprehensive sexual education program should be used to challenge socially detrimental beliefs and expectations based on gender as well as on alternate sexual and gender orientation. Only by substantially expanding the focus of traditional sexual education program can increase its usefulness. Doing so could radically transform sexual education in American education from a meaningless exercise in student embarrassment and...

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Ultimately, the comprehensive sexual education program is a tool for much more than merely teaching about sex.
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Angier, Natalie. Birds Do it. Bees Do it. People Seek the Keys to it;

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Baker, R., Elliston, F. (1998) Philosophy & Sex. Buffalo: Prometheus

Branden, Nathaniel (1999) the Psychology of Romantic Love.
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