sex education

[Tommunist]

Originally posted by: 3chordcharlie

Originally posted by: Riprorin

Originally posted by: 3chordcharlie

Originally posted by: Riprorin
The central message should be abstinence and monogamy since they are the most effective means of reducing the spread of AIDS and STDs.

For people that can't practice abstinence or monogamy, there are condoms.

They aren't 100% effective in providing protection from AIDS and STDs but they're better than nothing.

See now that's more reasonable.

The thing is, I would suggest that the message needs to be tailored to the society. If you have a society where large-scale abstinence is a reasonable outcome (eg. a country with fairly strong religious beliefs, or perhaps a relatively well-educated country), then it makes sense to emphasize the abstinence and fidelity part of the message, while still encouraging condom for others.

In a lot of Africa, I would suggest that the abstinence and monogamy message is dommed to have a low success rate, and promoting condom use needs to be the emphasized portion of the message.

Are you suggesting that African blacks are incapable of self-contol?

Wow.

I'm not sure why you would say given the success in Uganda where abstinance and fidelity are the primary messages.

No, that's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying some cultures are more conducive to extra emphasis on abstinence than are others. Americans in southern states don't seem to be very good at abstinence either, despite best efforts. Better birth control education would have an excellent chance of reducing pregnancies and disease there, as well.

Your stand on Uganda is still very interesting, since most of the recorded progress was achieved under a comprehensive publicity campaign, not one that emphasized abstinence at the expense of other messages. The fact that Uganda is apparently doing so NOW has little to do with what happened in the past.

Actually - I think based on a lot of African culture abstinence would fair better in most of Africa - at least that's what I gained from that social sciences class I took long ago taught by a native African (he should know better than I).

 

[Riprorin]

There has been no change in the Ugandan policy.

Link

The focus is on abstinence and fidelity with condoms as a fall back.

 

[imported_tss4]

Originally posted by: Riprorin
There has been no change in the Ugandan policy.

Link

The focus is on abstinence and fidelity with condoms as a fall back.

exactly, all 3 are critical to its success.