SEX EDUCATION
AN ETHICAL VIEWPOINT
Keywords:
AIDS, Committed Love Relationship, Monogamy, Moral Judgment, Premarital Abstinence, Premarital Sex, Responsible Sexual Behaviour, Sex Education, TeenagerAbstract
The purpose of sex education is to help students arrive at the moral judgment that sex outside a committed love relationship is wrong because it violates the value of caring — caring for oneself, one’s partner, the child that might result, and society as a whole. In this article, an attempt is made to help teenagers become aware of the advantages of avoiding premarital sexual activity, and to demonstrate to them that their sexuality has the power to create a new human life. Besides, this article explains how diseases like AIDS are transmitted, the risks involved in the use of condoms, and the advantages of monogamy and premarital abstinence, especially for the prevention of AIDS. Thus, this article invites them to have responsible sexual behaviour.
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