re sex education in article mar athos rutgers edu swansond nextnet ccs csus edu dennis swanson writes in article mar athos rutgers edu heath athena cs uga edu terrance heath writes when i do programs i spend about half the time talking about absitinence i find that most people who object to sex education actually object to the teaching anything other than abstinencne and that imo is just as irresponsible as only talking about comdom use i m under the impression that most sex ed instructors and or policy makers actually object to making any more than a passing reference to abstinence wishing to spend time only on the realistic choices in the sex ed portion of the high school health course i took in it was impressed that the only positive way to not get pregnant was to not have sex other methods of contraception were discussed in the framework of a chart which showed both the expected failure rate theoretical assumes no mistakes and the actual failure rate based on research top of the chart was something like this method expected actual failure rate failure rate abstinence and nfp natural family planning was on the bottom the teacher even said i ve had some students tell me that they can t use anything for birth control because they re catholic well if you re not married and you re a practicing catholic the top of the list is your slot not the bottom even if you re not religious the top of the list is safest yes this was a public school and after dr koop s failing abstinence use a condom statement on the prevention of aids jen include stdisclaimer jenk microsoft com msdos testing
