Sexual "Education" part II

There are obvious and many flaws with abstinence only education.

The first one being that it doesn't work. Over 50% of high schoolers have had sexual activity by the time they graduate. 3 million teenagers contract STDs per year. These statistics clearly show that teenagers are still having sex and will continue to have sex regardless of how they are taught. The stats also show that teens are going to contract STDs if they aren't taught how to protect against them in a way other than abstinence. Abstinence only education isn't work and will never work because teens will always have sex since it is part of growing up and becoming healthy adults, so they might as well be taught how to do it safely.

The second problem is that most people don't want abstinence only education in our schools. 70% of people oppose funding earmarked solely for abstinence-only education. 84% of people believe that teenagers should be given information about how to protect themselves from pregnancy and disease. If such a vast amount of people do not want abstinence only education, it should be taken out of our schools.

The third is that no teenager is going to listen to their "old and uptight" health teacher telling them not to have sex because "they should wait until they're married" when their boy/girlfriend is asking them to have sex NOW. Peer pressure is part of the teenage world, it is not going to go away any time soon. Teenage boys especially are not going to want to wait until they get married to have sex when they want to get laid today. Teenage girls are not going to want to wait until they get married to have sex when they want to get laid now, either!

Sex is an important part of growing up, and quite frankly, some of us teens don't want to wait to get it!! And If teens are going to be having sex despite abstinence only education anyways, shouldn't there be a different type of education?