Sex education

Sex education is instruction on issues relating to human sexuality, including emotional relations and responsibilities, human sexual anatomy, sexual activity, sexual reproduction, reproductive health, reproductive rights, safe sex, birth control and sexual abstinence. Sex education that covers all of these aspects is known as "comprehensive sex education". Common avenues for sex education are parents or caregivers, formal school programs, and public health campaigns.

Traditionally, adolescents in many cultures were not given any information on sexual matters, with the discussion of these issues being considered taboo. Such instruction, as was given, was traditionally left to a child's parents, and often this was put off until just before a child's marriage. The progressive education movement of the late 19th century, however, led to the introduction of "social hygiene" in North American school curricula and the advent of school-based sex education. Despite early inroads of school-based sex education, most of the information on sexual matters in the mid-20th century was obtained informally from friends and the media, and much of this information was deficient or of dubious value, especially during the period following puberty, when curiosity about sexual matters was the most acute. This deficiency was heightened by the increasing incidence of teenage pregnancies, particularly in Western countries after the 1960s. As part of each country's efforts to reduce such pregnancies, programs of sex education were introduced, initially over strong opposition from parent and religious groups.

Sex Education (book)

Sex Education is a 1995 book by the American author Jenny Davis. It was written for readers in grades 9-12 and tells the story of two teens who, working together on a term project for their sex education class, are instructed to care for someone else for the semester. They choose a lonely, pregnant neighbor, a task that proves more difficult than they anticipated.

The book has been the subject of many legal challenges, according to the American Library Association.

Sex Education (Parks and Recreation)

"Sex Education" is the fourth episode of the fifth season of the American comedy television series Parks and Recreation, and the 72nd overall episode of the series. It originally aired on NBC in the United States on October 18, 2012.

In the episode, Leslie (Amy Poehler) fights against Pawnee's abstinence-only sex education platform, Tom (Aziz Ansari) struggles to live without technology, and Ben (Adam Scott) and April (Aubrey Plaza) finally meet the Congressman they are working for.

Plot

Leslie (Amy Poehler) has organized a sexual education seminar, as sexually transmitted diseases are rampant among Pawnee's senior citizens. Ann (Rashida Jones) is asked to help out due to her medical background. After getting into a car accident due to constant use of his smartphone, Tom (Aziz Ansari) is taken to court and sentenced to one week without looking at a screen. Tom finds life without technology very difficult, so Ron (Nick Offerman) decides to take Tom to his cabin in the woods so he can "detox" from his technology addiction.