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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The coalition now has 140 member organizations
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
