The appropriate content for sex education is a subject of political dispute within the United States, and within other countries. The greatest division is between the comprehensive and [[abstinence]]-only schools of thought. Proponents of comprehensive sex education believe that instruction should include education on methods of [[contraception]], as a means to prevent the twin threats of pregnancy and the transmission of sexually-transmitted infections. Proponents of abstinence education maintain that instructing unmarried teenagers on contraception is implicitly endorsing sexual activity outside of marriage, and so sex education should omit contraception and instead concentrate on helping teenagers to avoid pressure towards pre-marital sexual activity, and to wait until they are in a monogamous, married relationship to begin sexual activity.
==Sex Ed as part of the business plan==
Organizations like [[Planned Parenthood]] lobby state [[legislature]]s in order to mandate their Sex Education curriculum. They make the most money from women under thirty and especially from return customers who had their first abortion as a [[teenager]]. [[Abortion]] would not be as big of a business if not for the sexualization of children through [[Hollywood]], [[media]], [[government]] and esp. [[public school]]s. That's why they sell the "safe sex" lie and promote a worry-free message of sex without consequences. One result ends up being millions of [[Teen pregnancy|teen pregnances]] which lead either to abortions or to sexually transmitted diseases. Young clients often go to their clinics to get help for treatment of their [[STD]] while certain medications can be quite expensive. From a business standpoint, it makes sense that Planed Parenthood, with more appropriate name "Preventing Parenthood," aims for young impressionable kids with developing [[hormone]]s by promoting [[promiscuity]] and sexual experimentation. The concepts of [[abstinence]], purity, and self-restraint are nowhere to be found. Their message is the blatant [[indoctrination]] intended to increase Planned Parenthood's business income. One employee lectured students at Ramona High School, Riverside, CA, saying: ''"At Planned Parenthood you can also get birth control without the consent or knowledge of your parents. So, if you are 14, 15, or 16 and you come to Planned Parenthood, we won't tell your parents you've been there. We swear we won't tell your parents."''<ref name="FIORAZO2012">{{cite book |author=David Fiorazo |title=ERADICATE: Blotting Out God in America |publisher=Life Sentence Publishing |place=Abbotsford, WA |year=2012 |chapter=4 |page=100-2 |isbn=978-1-62245-026-8 |url=http://davidfiorazo.com/2013/02/introduction-to-eradicate-blotting-out-god-in-america/}}</ref>
==Liberals vs. Conservatives==
In general, comprehensive education is favored by [[liberal]]s while abstinence-only education is favored by [[conservative]]s.
==Specific components==As well as subjects directly related to physical sexual acts, sex education may also include instruction or guidance on relationship management, self-control, pregnancy, the physiological changes of puberty, so called "sexual orientation", the term of [[Gleichschaltung#LGBTI_Gleichschaltung|LGBT+ gleichschaltung]] used for masking [[sexual disorientation]], and sometimes the morality of sex. This variety adds to the political controversy, with varying groups advocating the inclusion or exclusion of specific components.
Sex education is typically taught at varying points throughout education, either as a separate short course (often with a visiting specialist teacher) or as a module in the science curriculum. Thus an individual student will go through several sex education courses, each one imparting information considered appropriate for their age at the time.