Sexual Education: the Ignorant Teach Abstinence

<Tab/>The statistics involving teenage sexuality are on the rise. Each year approximately 48 percent of students graduating from high-school have been sexually active at some point in their lives. Other countries, such as Canada, England, France, and Sweden, that have the same average age of first sexual encounters as the United States, hold a teen pregnancy rate half that of America's, and statistically less teens are infected with STI's. Sex Education in these countries is based on a policy explicitly favoring sex education, openness about sex, consistent messages throughou…