Sexual Ethics Research Paper
Contemporary Sexual Ethics
Contemporary sexual ethics drastically oppose norms that have been established since the foundation of our country. If a scientist studying animal forms and behavior is asked what sex is for in the life of animals he will answer that it clearly exists for the purposes of reproduction. The built-in focus of sex as a natural activity is outside the individuals who do it. That is why sex is the most important thing in social life of animals. Human beings are definitely animals, but we are more complicated than other animals. Humans understand the meanings of their actions and give them meaning of depth; other animals are incapable of realizing that. The central significance of sex in human life is similar …show more content…
The first two are variations of the nondirective approach: the third, by contrast, is a directive approach. Comprehensive sex education, which quickly became the prototype for the Western world, was based on four premises: Teenagers sexual activity is inevitable, educators should be value-neutral regarding sex, schools should openly discuss sexual matters, and sex education should teach students about contraception. The impact of nondirective, value-neutral, and comprehensive sex education on teenage sexual behavior ranged from three different things. From 1971 to 1981, government funding at all levels for contraceptive …show more content…
Such support is not cheap. Since 1970, the federal Office for Family Planning has spent more than $4 billion to provide women with physical exams, counseling, and contraceptives. Federally funded programs serve 4.5 million women today, of whom a million and a half are teens. Sex education programs seeks to delay reproduction by preventing pregnancy rather than preventing sex. Advocates of programs assume that sex among teenagers is commonplace and neither can nor should be stopped. In this view, the better the sex education and the easier the access to contraceptives, the lower the rate of teenage pregnancy. Contraceptives, particularly among the religious right, seek to delay reproduction by controlling sex. They argue that the federal policy of making counseling, and contraceptives easily available has done nothing to
Contemporary sexual ethics drastically oppose norms that have been established since the foundation of our country. If a scientist studying animal forms and behavior is asked what sex is for in the life of animals he will answer that it clearly exists for the purposes of reproduction. The built-in focus of sex as a natural activity is outside the individuals who do it. That is why sex is the most important thing in social life of animals. Human beings are definitely animals, but we are more complicated than other animals. Humans understand the meanings of their actions and give them meaning of depth; other animals are incapable of realizing that. The central significance of sex in human life is similar …show more content…
The first two are variations of the nondirective approach: the third, by contrast, is a directive approach. Comprehensive sex education, which quickly became the prototype for the Western world, was based on four premises: Teenagers sexual activity is inevitable, educators should be value-neutral regarding sex, schools should openly discuss sexual matters, and sex education should teach students about contraception. The impact of nondirective, value-neutral, and comprehensive sex education on teenage sexual behavior ranged from three different things. From 1971 to 1981, government funding at all levels for contraceptive …show more content…
Such support is not cheap. Since 1970, the federal Office for Family Planning has spent more than $4 billion to provide women with physical exams, counseling, and contraceptives. Federally funded programs serve 4.5 million women today, of whom a million and a half are teens. Sex education programs seeks to delay reproduction by preventing pregnancy rather than preventing sex. Advocates of programs assume that sex among teenagers is commonplace and neither can nor should be stopped. In this view, the better the sex education and the easier the access to contraceptives, the lower the rate of teenage pregnancy. Contraceptives, particularly among the religious right, seek to delay reproduction by controlling sex. They argue that the federal policy of making counseling, and contraceptives easily available has done nothing to