Why is sex education so controversial in the U.S.?

Why is sex education or just the topic on sex so taboo in America but not in the rest of the world?

Here, people seem to be ashamed of talking about or be open about sex and human sexuality, especially when their children ask question about it. A good expample is when just recently, my 13-year-old cousin asked her mom "Mom, what's virginity?" and her mother snapped immediately saying, "Shut up. You're not suppose to know about that yet." And one day, not so long ago, her mother was yelling and beating her because she was caught doing or saying innapropiate stuff at school, I don't exactly knew what it was but I just knew her mom got really angry at her. Plus her parents don't even worry about her, about the changes that the teen years brings and the emotional problems she's facing. On the other hand, my neighbor who's Dutch, he says that people are very open about sexuality in Europe and other parts of the world.



Come on, its not my cousin's fault. We're all afraid that she'll mess up her life if she doesn't get educated as soon as possible about sex. What many people don't know is that the younger people get educated about sex, the lower the problabilities of messing up their lives will be. Even my 14 year-old brother who already know a few things about sex is embarrassed to discuss these things with his us when he shouldn't be either.



In my human sexuality class, our instructor showed us graphical statistics map about why the U.S. has the highest unwanted and teen pregnancies, STDs, divorce, lowest abstinence and lowest protected sex rates worldwide. It was so surprising when we saw for how much the percentages in the U.S. surpasses other industrialized nations, the margin was huge. It is believed because we don't usually talk with our children very much about sexuality.



Check out this link: http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/419?task=view

I'm not generalizing, but its the truth.



So why is sex education so controversial in America but not in other parts of the world?Why is sex education so controversial in the U.S.?
Why is sex education so controversial in the U.S.

I'ts not but the age they start is and what they are learning about.

some schools encurage kids to get abortions if they get pregnant when they are in high schools that is not only imoral that should be illegal tucking socialist trucking pricks.Why is sex education so controversial in the U.S.?
Thats just the way it is here!Why is sex education so controversial in the U.S.?
Why is your question so long?





but the answer is american squeamishness.
I think it has to do with how powerful religion is over there, christianity in particular. the want to keep kids sheltered from sex for as long as possible so they don't have sex before marrige and all that. what they don't realize was when the sex before marrige rule was made, people were getting married as young as 12 years old!!!!



so basically old values from religion do not update as the human race does. I am from australia and we started learning about sex ed when i was 12. by then most kids had alread had "the Talk" from their parents. now yes, a lot of kids had sex whilst they were in highschool, but only one fell pregnant and that was due to contraception failing!! we are taught about contraception, abstanence is encourage, but the thingg is not all kids are going to listen to that, so they taught us birth control.



I am a 19 year old virgin. I have a boyfriend of 4 years, my friends and I openly discuss our sex lives (with permission from partners of course) and we all feel better off for it as we know what to expect, we know what to be cautious off, we understand what it is we are doing.