A searchable database of the laws, people, organizations, and litigation involved in sexual and reproductive health and justice in the United States. Imagine a teacher who lets her 8 th grade students say all the dirty, sex-related words they know, and writes them down on the chalkboard. And she has never heard from any angry parents. In the light of studies that show how abstinence-only programs are ineffective, a growing movement in the United States is pushing for accurate, comprehensive and reality-based sexuality education.
Swedish Liberal Attitude Towards Sex - Feminism, Stereotypes & Nudity - Hej Sweden
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The Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, France and Germany protect this right by providing comprehensive sex education in their schools and implementing public programs to promote sexual health. Abstinence-only education in the United States denies American youth the right to sexual autonomy and prevents them from developing healthy sexual identities. Youth in the United States are far less sexually healthy than youth in these other countries. This paper will examine sex education policies and sexual health agendas in each of these countries and look to them for inspiration in proposing a new sex education and public health agenda for the United States. Adolescents in the United States fair consistently worse on most sexual health measures than teens in other industrialized countries.
Two Swedish teenage girls were found guilty of aggravated defamation on Tuesday for so-called slut-shaming 38 youths on the photo-sharing service Instagram, which led to rioting at two schools. The year-old girl who admitted opening the anonymous account was sentenced to juvenile detention, and her year-old accomplice was given 45 hours of community service, reported The Local , an English-language news site in Sweden. The year-old began soliciting tips in December on "which young people are the worst sluts in Gothenburg," Sweden's second-largest city. Within days she had received nearly 1, suggestions. The teen then published photos, mostly of girls, along with derogatory comments about their alleged sexual activities.