'''Sex Education''' is classroom instruction on [[human reproduction]] and [[sexuality]]. It is a very hot cultural issue in American politics because of a division between those who feel that it should teach only the facts relating to contraception and sexually-transmitted infection and those who favor a more moral curriculum based on abstinence.
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'''Sex Education''' is classroom instruction on [[human reproduction]] and [[sexuality]]. Liberals oppose teaching abstinence, the only effective way to avoid sexually transmitted diseases that cause infertility and probably cancer.
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Many Conservatives favor abstinence-only sex education, arguing that schools make it more socially-acceptable for sexual promiscuity through educating students. They also underscore the importance of monogamy and point to poor protective measures by many popular contraceptives. Other conservatives are against sex education in schools altogether, and would prefer the schools do not indoctrinate or promote any sexual practices; they tend to prefer instructing their children in sexual morality and sexuality themselves.
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Many conservatives favor abstinence-only sex education.