Sex Education in the U.S. and Japan

How much sexual knowledge should adults provide to adolescents for decades in order to reduce teenage pregnancies and sexually related diseases? According to the US Youth Prevention and Unexpected Pregnancy Campaign (2013), the teen pregnancy rate is the highest in developed countries and in 2008 about 68 girls got pregnant. In order to change this situation, we offer two types of sex education: abstinence education and comprehensive sex education in the United States.

Over the years, discussions on sexuality in the United States have evolved to satisfy the message of advocating sex education. One of the most important changes in the mission of promoting sex education in the United States is promotion of comprehensive sex education, not just "sex". According to Barbara Whitehead of the Atlantic Ocean, "Comprehensive sex education contains several movies, one or two menstruation and human reproduction. It has been in high school since kindergarten, it includes various fields, Including reproductive biology Learning, psychology of relationships, family sociology, and sexology of masturbation and massage not only reduce the risk to young health but also increase self-esteem, prevent sexual abuse, It encourages respect for various families and makes young boys more difficult.The little girls are more confident

There are two main forms of sex education in the United States. Comprehensive sex education and abstinence. Comprehensive education is also known as abstinence, abstinence, abstinence plus risk mitigation and sexual risk mitigation education. This approach uses abstinence as an option, but also to inform adolescent young people about sexual behavior, to agree on the availability of age and contraceptives, and techniques to avoid contraction of sexually transmitted diseases I'm waiting. Sex education, restricted to abstinence, is also known as abstinence basis, abstinence until marriage, sexual risk avoidance, and recent youth empowerment education. This approach emphasizes the prohibition of sexual activity before marriage and refuses contraception. These two methods are very different in philosophy and strategy of educating young people about sexual behavior.