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Sexuality Education History
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FIrst Sexuality Education Group Founded
The first sexuality group was founded on valentines day in 1914 after meetings at Grace Hoadley Dodge's New York City Mansion. A number of very prominent reformers met at her house to form this group. These members included the recently retired president of Harvard, on millionaire, a woman minister who helped found the Women's Peace Party and the NAACP, a luminary in the reform of women's prisons, two outstanding physicians, and at least two prominent lawyers. -
San Diego institutes a sex education program to cover a wide array of topics
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SIECUS Founded by Mary Calderone
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States was founded to provide education and information about sexuality and sexual and reproductive health. SIECUS' three main goals are to educate advocate and inform. -
Opposition from the Christian Crusade
In 1968, the christian crusade, led by the reverend Billy James Hargis, launched a direct-mail promotion campaign to raise money through the distribution of a 40-page booklet entitled, Is the School House the Proper Place to Teach Raw Sex? by Dr. Gordon Drake. The letter indicated that the overall scheme of sexuality education programs is to demoralize youth and repudiate christian morality, and that it is part of a giant communist conspiracy. -
Federal Support for Abstinence Only Programs began through the Adolescent Family Life Act
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SIECUS founds the National Guidelines Task Force
The National Guidelines Task Force was a panel of experts that constructed a framework within which local communities could design effective curricula and/or evaluate existing programs. -
Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education— Kindergarten–12th Grade was first published.
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SIECUS convened the National Coalition to Support Sexuality Education.
The coalition now has 140 member organizations -
Funding for abstinence only education programs grew exponentially with an increase in 50 million dollars annually.
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In 2006, 87% of U.S. public and private high schools taught abstinence as the most effective method to avoid pregnancy, HIV and other STDs in a required health education course.
Sixty-five percent of high schools taught about condom efficacy and 39% taught students how to correctly use a condom in a required health education course. Seventy-six percent of high schools taught about the risks associated with teen pregnancy as part of required instruction, and 81% taught about the risks associated with having multiple sexual partners. -
A 2007 congressionally mandated study found that federally-funded abstinence-only programs have no beneficial impact on young people’s sexual behavior
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Evidenced Based Sex Education Programs get Increased Funding.
In 2009, recognizing that evidence-based sex
education programs were effective in promoting
sexual health among teenagers, the Obama
administration transferred funds from the
Community-based Abstinence Education Program
and budgeted $114.5 million to support
evidence-based sex education programs across the
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In December 2009, Congress replaced the rigid Community-Based Abstinence Education Program with a new $114.5 million teen pregnancy prevention program to support evidence-based interventions, as well as other programs that have demonstrated promise.
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Congress created through health care reform a five-year Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP).
In March 2010, Congress created through health care reform a five-year Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP). Its stated purpose is to educate adolescents on both abstinence and contraception and to prepare them for adulthood by teaching such subjects as healthy relationships, financial literacy, parent-child communication and decision-making. -
Current Sexuality Education Trends
Currently, 20 states and the District of Columbia mandate both sex and HIV education; one state mandates sex education alone, and another 13 states mandate HIV education. A total of 37 states require that sex education include abstinence: Twenty-six require that abstinence be stressed, while eleven simply require that it be included as part of the instruction. -
Current Sexuality Education Trends Continues
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia require that sex education programs include information on contraception; no state requires that it be stressed. Thirteen states require that the information presented in sex education classes be medically accurate and factual. However, a recent review of 13 commonly used abstinence-only curricula found that 11 had incorrect, misleading or distorted information. Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia require that sex education be age-appr.
