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Comprehensive sex education in our nation’s public schools has managed to present sex as a simple physical function. With the ease of explaining any other school subject, sex has merely become a bodily function. One could compare it to the need to use the toilet for the elimination of bodily waste. We have taught youth the mechanics of putting on a condom, and provided pictures of diseases transmitted through sexual activities. Thousands and thousands of youth know all about sex. But do they really? What is missing? How about the feelings associated with sexual intercourse. Are we equipping our youth with information about how loving, caring committed relationships work? When sexual abstinence is taught in our school classrooms, these ideas are discussed as well thinking about how sex can affect our minds and our hearts, as well as our bodies.Abstinence education should be a choice offered wherever comprehensive sex ed. is taught. Why tip the scales unfavorably toward a choice that irrevocably alters someone’s life. Our youth deserve better than this.
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