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Sexual Education: Comprehensive Vs. Abstinence-Only

High school is either the best days of your life or four years of struggling and mild torture for teens, and the pressure to be sexually active can push adolescents towards the latter. The idea that sexual activity is the ticket to popularity is burned into teens brains by the media, through television, major label music, and movies, their peers, and celebrity role models. They are bombarded with images and sounds dripping with sexual innuendos and sometimes-blatant encouragement of adolescent sex. It is almost impossible to believe that any teen has not become sexually active after their constant exposure to the sex-craved American entertainment system. These are some of the reasons that recently, within the past decade, high schools have employed abstinence only sexual education programs, partly due to the outcry from parents. These programs encourage students to be sexually abstinent by teaching them what horrors teen......

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