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States vary in policy regarding parental role in sex education; some states require parental consent to teach certain aspects of the sex/HIV education curriculum while others require that parents are active participants in the education. 40 states (and the District of Columbia) require the inclusion of parents in sex and/or HIV education.
During World War I, the federal government asked the American Social Hygiene Association and YMCA to create sex education for soldiers in an effort to steer them away from prostitution and inform ...
The National Association of School Psychologists, [111] the American Academy of Pediatrics, [112] the American Public Health Association, [113] the Society for Adolescent Medicine [114] and the American College Health Association, [114] have stated official support for comprehensive sex education. Such curricula are intended to reduce sexually ...
It’s also rooted in history: For as long as there’s been sex ed — a topic first discussed and called for by the National Education Association in 1892 — there has been pushback over it ...
Comprehensive sex education is the main topic in the documentary The Education of Shelby Knox (2005) about Lubbock, Texas, which has one of the highest teen pregnancy and STD rates in the nation; the "solution" to which is a strict abstinence-only sex education curriculum in the public schools and a conservative preacher who urges kids to ...
Dr. Mary Calderone, founder of SIECUS. The organization was founded in 1964 by Dr. Mary Calderone, then medical director at Planned Parenthood.With the conviction that sex education was sorely lacking in American society and simply "handing out contraceptives was not enough," Dr. Calderone quit her position at Planned Parenthood and established the Sex Information and Education Council of the ...
From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.
Social norms were changing as sex became more widely discussed in society. Erotic media, such as films, magazines, and books, became more popular and gained widespread attention nationally. Sex was entering the public domain. [1] Throughout history, the United States has undergone waves of feminism, in response to their needs and wants during ...