8 Myths About Sex Education

Every young child has a right to sex education in an accurate and balanced, including information about contraceptives, such as condoms.
Complete with a description of the professional health services, safe sex, and so on. Do not let the right is ignored, because we believe more myth.


Here are some myths about sex education which is still undermining the majority of the community. This myth should be straightened so that young people need to get proper and correct information about reproductive and sexual health.


1. Myth: Sex education should be given only to people who want to get married. Fact: According to a study, such an attitude is not going to delay sexual activity among adolescents. Instead of understanding that very little wrong about sexuality and facilitate many teens fall into unhealthy sexual behaviors.


2. Myth: Sex education encourages students to become sexually active. Fact: The World Health Organization (WHO) evaluated 47 programs in the United States and several other countries. In 15 studies, sex education and HIV / AIDS increase sexual activity and pregnancy rates and sexually transmitted infections. However, 17 other studies show, sex education and HIV / AIDS to delay sexual activity, reducing the number of sexual partners, also reduces the incidence rate of sexually transmitted infections and unplanned pregnancy.


3. Myth: Teaching contraception will encourage sexually active students and improve pregnancy rates in adolescents. Fact: Experts who have studied this issue concluded, sex education and HIV / AIDS is comprehensive, including condom availability programs, do not increase sexual activity, but it is effective in reducing high-risk sexual behavior among adolescents.


4. Myth: Often there is a failure of contraception, so we better teach teens to be avoided. Fact: Modern contraceptives are very effective, as long as choosing the type that really fit and used correctly. The average pregnancy in women who use a particular type of pill about 0.03 percent, while wearing a condom for women about 21 percent, and that without family planning around 85 percent. Compare.


5. Myth: contraceptives do not ward off HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Fact: It is only the condom that provides significant protection against sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. That is why teenagers should get a proper education about condoms.


6. Myth: Condoms have an average failure rate is high. Fact: The National Institutes of Health (TNIH) explains, condoms are highly effective to counteract the spread of HIV and prevent pregnancy. TNIH also reported that laboratory studies show that condoms can prevent sexually transmitted diseases caused by other infections, such as gonorrhea, chlamydia, and trichomoniasis.


7. Myth: Condoms can not protect us from HPV (Human papillomavirus). Fact: Condoms are not able to ward off viral infections on the body that are not covered condom. However, TNIH reported, the use of condoms can reduce the risk of HPV-related diseases, such as cervical cancer. This type of disease can be prevented by using condoms consistently and effectively, as well as early detection of HPV through pap smears.


8 Myth: Condoms are not effective for preventing HIV transmission. Fact: TNIH confirmed that condoms are an effective public health tool to fight HIV infection. Other studies in Europe against the so-called HIV-serodiscordant couples (couples where one of them had been infected with HIV and a healthy one) showed there were no infections in healthy couples, among 124 couples who used condoms every time they have sex. In couples who do not consistently use condoms, about 12 percent transmission in couples not previously infected. @ Rin