Is there a need for sex education packs?
In only two-three weeks of reseaching the suggestion, we received
requests for over 20,000 packs from schools in the UK. There is
a huge need for this resource.
We quote:
More than a third of women and more than half of all men say they would have preferred to have learned more from school.
Despite the assumed sexual sophistication of the young, the evidence is that they are still not as well informed about sexual matters as they might be. More than two-thirds of young people see themselves as inadequately prepared in terms of information at the time of first intercourse.
The results of a review of 35 studies carried out by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Global Programme on AIDS revealed that in no study was there evidence of sex education leading to earlier or increased sexual activity in the young people exposed to it; in six studies sex education appeared to be associated with either a delay in the onset of sexual activity or to a decrease in sexual activity overall.
Contraception
and Office Gynaecology – Choices in Reproductive Healthcare
page 4 – ISBN 0-7020-2361-2
Edited by Ali Kubba MBChB MFFP FRCOG (UK), Joseph Sanfilippo MD FACOG
(US) and
Naomi Hampton BSc MBBS MRCOG MFFP (UK)
Teenage
Pregnancy League Table of Rich Nations
UNICEF Document - .pdf format