...private schools should have sex education classes. Some of the American public believes that sex education should be taught at home by the children's parents. They feel that sex education programs in schools do not put an emphasis on abstinence and encourages children to have sexual intercourse. Sex education in public schools has been a controversial issue in the United States for over a decade. With the HIV and teen pregnancy crises growing, sex education is needed. Sex education classes can prevent sexually transmitted diseases. Sexually transmitted diseases are also called STD’s which are infectious diseases that spread from person to person through intimate contact. STDs can affect guys and girls of all ages and backgrounds that are having sex it doesn't matter if they're rich or poor. STD’s are spreading rapidly due to lack of knowledge about sex education. Some of the many STD’s are not curable, meaning that they are long term. For example AID’s is not something that will go not go away in due time, it is a lifelong. But if teens had knowledge on the different diseases many would not be suffering from STD’s. Next, sex education classes can prevent teen pregnancy. Teen pregnancy is at its peak in today’s society. The effects of teenage pregnancy vary greatly depending on a number of things including maturity, readiness, planning, health, and more. Becoming pregnant can only take one time and one time only and that seem to be one of the most common misunderstandings teens...
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...Pelvic Inflammatory Disease There is an estimated one million women in the United States who are treated for pelvic inflammatory disease. About 75,000 suffer from infertility due to damage from PID. That affects the fallopian tubes and uterus. What is Pelvic inflammatory disease? PID is an infection of the women reproductive organs How do women get PID? Women can get it from having a STD and not know. With the STD untreated it causes pelvic inflammatory disease. The bacteria spread from the vagina and cervix and causes PID. In 75 to 90 percent of the PID cases gonorrhea and Chlamydia are present. You can also get it by having many sexual partners and drug use. When a female douche she increases her chances of getting PID. It is proved most cases of is often poly microbial....
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...parental responsibility or school system curriculum. Most parents feel that it is their responsibility to educate their own children about sex education in the comfort of their own home, providing their children with the information they (the parents) are able to demonstrate to their children. Schools are children constant source of learning. In having school systems incorporate Sex Education into the curriculum, it would make it mandatory for children to learn about the details, and the consequences of reproduction in a more elaborate setting. This would allowing students to be taught the same knowledge with the most up to date information provided by a licensed school professional in subjects: contraceptives, teen pregnancies, and STD’s. Individuals could argue that distributing condoms in schools would promote unjustified premarital sexual activity amongst school-aged teenagers. Those same individuals believe that parents should take apart of their own child’s development in sexual knowledge. Properly equipping them (their child) with prescribed contraceptives from doctors, or condoms disbursed directly from them (the parent). It is not uncommon for parents to give their children condoms; however, it can provide moments of awkwardness between the parent and the teenager. Having the educational system deal contraceptives could prevent that awkwardness. This also lets the Sex Education teacher respond to comments or questions that teenagers may be too embarrassed to...
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...English 100 30 August 2012 Teenage Pregnancy Misguided The United States has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in the world. Staying abstinent is the one and only way to prevent pregnancy. The U.S. government has implemented sexual education in public schools for many years now. However, these programs only teach the younger population about abstinence-only education. Teaching our adolescence about abstaining does not stop them from engaging in sexual activities. This country can reduce the overabundance of unwed teenage mothers by educating our teenagers about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases (STD’s), as well as abstinence-until-marriage. At one point in time teenage marriage was accepted and thought of as the norm. Many ancestors within family trees throughout the nation are filled with young wives and mothers. Time, culture, and the economy prevent younger couples from taking part in the union of marriage. The financial inability to support a family in today’s frugal world has put a damper on the morality of marriage. In essence, society has helped promote teenage sexuality. The two most crucial outbreaks among our younger society is out-of-wedlock childbearing and sexually transmitted infections (STI’s) (175). A large number of kids today are not educated on the harm of STD’s and STI’s. Our public schools are only required to lectures about ghese effects to Jr. High and High School students, one day per school year. Up until recently it was up to parents...
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...Kemoya Riley Maria Labbato LBST 2101-207 4/4/16 Prostitution Debate Paper Prostitution is the occupation or act of providing sexual services with someone in exchange for payment or some other benefit. Prostitution is known to be the world’s oldest form of occupation. It dates back to around 2400 B.C. The profession is recorded to produce about one hundred billion in revenues annually throughout the world. Prostitution is considered illegal in the United States, with exception of some places in Nevada. The criminalization of the trade is a controversial issue because it is said to be damaging to not only the individuals involved in the trade but also surrounding others. According to sources, prostitution cause the spread of diseases, moral shame, and human trafficking. The amount of effort and money put into destroying prostitution hardly shows good results. Although it brings much complaint and conflict, legalizing prostitution would help limit problems for the sex workers, improve the economy and help weaken the spread of diseases. There are many reasons argued about why prostitution should be illegal. One of the most argued reasons about why prostitution should be illegal is because its morally wrong. Morals is a person’s standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to do(google.com). Morals are based off of a piece of information or an experience and differs from person to person. Morality is subjective and what is considered morally...
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...Should Birth Control Be Readily Available Teenagers and Sex: Should Birth Control Be Readily Available? Of the many controversies that have affected the United States in the past 100 years, birth control devices have been one of the more significant. Some common birth control devices are male and female condoms and the birth control pill. Both of these devices protect against pregnancy and the male and female condoms protect against sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and HIV. This arouses the question should teenagers be allowed to obtain these devices without parental consent. The answer is yes. Teenagers should be able to obtain birth control devices without their parents’ permission. There are countless reasons why birth control devices should be available to everyone. Among these reasons are the number and effects of teenage pregnancy, the right to privacy and living a disease free life. Every 31 seconds a teenager is reported pregnant and approximately 70 percent do not receive the proper care they need. When a teenager becomes pregnant a lot of problems follow soon after. Some of these problems are due to the teenager's physical immaturity, the fact that they are still growing and poor nutrition. Pregnant teenagers need extra care in the way of psychological and emotional support. Living in the United States we have the right to privacy. If teenagers choose to engage in sexual activity without making the situation known to their parents that is their own personal...
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... Helps decrease the amount of teen pregnancies each year in the United States. Access to birth control can help decrease the abortion rate in the United States. Allowing birth control displays a level of responsibility for your teen (Demand Media, Inc., 1999-2012). Cuts the risk of ovarian and uterine cancer by half (Demand Media, Inc., 1999-2012). The most popular method of contraception among teens is the birth control pill (Demand Media, Inc., 1999-2012). Free birth control allows teens who may not have been able to afford it to access it, this may not always be because a teen wants to be sexually active it could also help control their menstrual cycle especially if a doctor has prescribed it but they could not afford it (Word Press, 2011). If this whole process is done right and communicated well when talking about birth control or sex, it could lead to more sexually educated kids, which is never a bad thing because they will then know enough to make safer sexual decisions (Word Press, 2011). Cons The teen’s parents typically end up taking responsibly for the baby (Demand Media, Inc., 1999-2012). The teen may feel supported in the quest for sexual freedom if allowed birth control (Demand Media, Inc., 1999-2012). Birth control does not prevent STD’s and only prevents against pregnancy. STD’s can still be caught therefore a condom still needs to be worn during sex. You need a prescription (WebMD, LLC, 2005-2012)...
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...STD's - Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sexually transmitted diseases, STD's, also known as Venereal diseases, VD, are spread through sexual contact, and the exchange of body fluids. Anyone who is sexually active can contract an STD. Most STD's don't show symptoms, so you can have, spread and even contract an STD without even knowing it. Some STD's are serious and others can have long term consequences. Some of the consequences could be infertility, certain cancers, and other chronic diseases years after initial infection. If symptoms do appear it may take anywhere from two days to a couple of months after initial exposure to appear. Some may take years to show up. One out of every five Americans carry a sexually transmitted disease. More than thirteen million are affected every year. Nearly one-fifth infected are younger than twenty-five years of age. Every year three million American teenagers acquire an STD. Adolescents are at a higher risk because they may have multiple partners, unprotected intercourse, and their partners are at higher risk. You would be at a higher risk of acquiring an STD if: you or your partner have had unprotected sex with someone, if you or your partner has had sex with someone after using drugs or alcohol, you or your partner have had sex after using cocaine, or you or your partner have used IV drugs. General Symptoms Some general symptoms of sexually transmitted diseases are genital sores, bumps, or blisters, pain and itching. In men some common symptoms...
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...Prostitution: Not so Bad After All There are many great risks of being a prostitute. The physical risks being assaults, STD's, and robbery. And the mental effects resulting in lack of self esteem, depression, thoughts of suicide, and nothing is going to be the same after sinking as low as prostitution. Being a hooker is flat out dangerous. Why do it? The simple answer is: desperation. Statistics show that 92 % of women say they want to leave prostitution but cannot due to lack of money or food.[1] If prostitution was legalized, many of these risks could be prevented. Several people let their morals and religion decide that legalizing prostitution is bad for the country. However, a scientific study proves that a causal relationship between legalized, regulated prostitution and the benefits of lower crime, better healthcare, lower suicide rates and lower divorce rates.[2] The legalization would not only make the prostitutes feel safer, but it would also pull all of the focus of law enforcers from harlotry to worse matters that our country is facing. Prostitution being illegal is simply unconstitutional and denies women of her rights. The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people [3] Which basically states that the constitution protects our personal rights not explicitly expressed in the constitution. Being a prostitute is a personal decision that the government shouldn't have to control. The...
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...planning at all. Teens often don’t think that their perfect plan for life could ever take a detour. It’s easy for it to happen, and we should all be informed on the reasons why. The first problem we are seeing is the lack of education on contraceptives, and sexually transmitted diseases. Teenagers are not receiving enough or none at all education on what contraceptives are and how sexually transmitted diseases can affect your life as well. There are about 1,700 school-based health centers nationwide, and only about ⅓ --almost all of them high schools--provide contraceptives. Only ⅓, that is a very small portion that is receiving information at all. Sexual education is very important when it comes to these two things. Yet there are three states that still require parents to sign off their children receiving any sexual education in schools, which in many cases some teens are embarrassed to talk to their parents about it simply because their parents are not taking part in talking about it to their child. Although it parents should be the...
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...E’Lexus Moore EN 111 003 Mr. Brian Kehler June 22, 2012 How can the high teen pregnancy and sexual transmitted disease rate among Mississippi teens be solved? The United States teen pregnancy rate has fallen, but Mississippi still has the highest birthrate in the nation. Mississippi reported 64 births per 1000 teens aged fifteen through nineteen in 2011, more than 60 percent above the United States average. To solve the high rate of teen pregnancy and sexual transmitted diseases in Mississippi, public schools should offer abstinence plus classes for the fifth through ninth graders and comprehensive sex education for the tenth through twelfth graders. “A mutually faithful monogamous relationship in the context of marriage is the expected standard of human sexual activity.” Different people will disagree about the veracity of this statement, but we know that it does not reflect the experiences of the majority of young people. Therefore, classes should be offered to educate the younger people about sex and its consequences. Abstinence plus programs teaches teens abstinence but includes information about condoms and contraception methods. Simultaneously, comprehensive sex education teaches abstinence as the best method for avoiding pregnancy and sexual transmitted diseases but also teaches condoms and contraception to reduce the risk of unintended pregnancy and of infection with STDs. Offering comprehensive sex and abstinence plus classes in the schools are age appropriate...
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...Many people in the United States cannot afford health care. Monthly costs for basic health care can cost upwards of three hundred dollars. With this, many people either go without health care or find other ways to keep up with their health. One of the most useful but controversial ways includes Planned Parenthood. Without Planned Parenthood many women and men would go without things such as breast exams, STD testing, and prostate screening. In this essay I will explain what planned parenthood does, the controversy, why we should fund it, and what will happen if Planned Parenthood is defunded. With 38,000 staff members, Planned Parenthood is responsible providing health services to 2.7 million men, women, and young adults. (Planned Parenthood...
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...Community Description and Data Interpretation Anchorage is the most populated city of the state of Alaska. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, approximately 300,950 people reside in Alaska’s largest city (factfinder.census.gov). Anchorage land area is approximately 1700 square miles with approximately 180 people per square mile (www.city-data.com). The city is located in the south central region of the largest state in the union and is known for its travel and tourism industry. People come to Anchorage from around the world while on their way to view the rest of this majestic state. Anchorage is the home of the World Championship Sled Dog Race as well as the ceremonial starting location of the world famous Iditarod Sled Dog Race. Anchorage is a military friendly community with the United States Air Force and the United States Army both stationed at the military installation known as Joint Based Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) located within the municipality. Anchorage’s economy consists of revenues from the petroleum industry, the military, and the tourism/service industry. Anchorage is also known for its closeness with wildlife since the Chugach State Park, which is one of the four largest state parks in the United States, is located within the municipality (dnr.alaska.gov). It is not uncommon to read and hear about moose or bear encounters while walking on the local bike trails, as well as whale watching in the body of water known as the Cook Inlet, named after the famous...
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...relate to. What my experience illustrates is the sexual pressure college students’ feel. Disregarding gender, I feel like most students attending college are exposed to the idea of having a spontaneous sex life. It has just become a common stereotype many people start to live up to, that once you are in college your sex life needs to be adventurous. The main concern with such pressure is the type of dangerous exposure college students face when they pursue such an active sexual life. One of the most common issues related to an active sexual life, is the common factor of risking your health with sexually transmitted diseases. When looking at statistics, many of the numbers show people from the ages of 18 and up are the ones who attract STD’s the most. These numbers signify the problems that this age up has. According to Guttmacher institute, there are approximately 19 million new cases of STIs each year, half of them among 15–24-year-olds, and that 65 million Americans have at least one viral STI, most commonly genital herpes (Guttmacher). If you think about it these numbers are really high, but are these numbers enough for young adults like us to stop us from having sex? When it comes to sex for a young adult he or she doesn’t...
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...The effects of Teenage Peer Pressure Hunter Clark Marion Technical College In today’s society, most teenagers are extremely influenced by their friends. Relying on friends more than family is very common among today’s teenagers. Unfortunately this results in poor decision making skills and giving into peer pressure. Many teenagers, before the age of 15 years old will have tried drinking, sex, and recreational drugs. Underage drinking is very popular among teenagers. Research has shown that 70% of parties held by a teenager serve alcohol. Many times these parties have no adult supervision, which can result in a disaster. When a teenager is new to drinking he/she can possibly overdose on alcohol. Drinking too much will impair their thinking process which will then lead to horrible decisions such as drinking and driving. Today’s teens are willing to do almost anything to fit in and become popular. If a teenager drinks then drives he/she not only risk his/her own life but the life of the others. He/she choose to drink to fit in with the crowd, not thinking of the consequences. Many teenagers try drugs out of peer pressure and curiosity. They think it will make him/her look cool and fearless. Many teens are actually afraid to try drugs but do it anyway because they are in an environment where others are doing it as well. Drugs can become very addictive and if they like the “buzz” they get the first time, then they will continue to use and form a deadly habit. Doing drugs raises...
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