How Sex Education Should Be Taught

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at the Alan Guttmacher Institute attributed 80 percent of the decrease from 1988 to 1995 to the increased use of contraceptives and the remaining 20 percent to teen abstinence. This study was compromised by the fact that the peak year for the teen birthrate (1991) occurs in the middle of the study time frame.
As this issue heats up studies on sex education will be more closely scrutinized. Imagine how these analysts would have critiqued the studies of William Fisher and his team at Perdue University. This paper suggests that although their work revealed new information about sexuality and led to conclusions that still hold value today, some of their techniques left something to be desired.
Social scientist Donn Byrne, who was just beginning to study sexual behavior in the mid-1970s, asked Fisher to analyze data from a study of men's and women's reactions to pornography. Findings showed that participants with the most negative feelings about sexual movies also had, or ...

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It may have been better to approach the research in the following manner: After stating the hypothesis and before conducting research, the team should have defined the parameters for the IQ test. The questions listed would be gained from other studies on the topic and/or interviews with students about possible situations that could cause negative emotional reactions. Once determining the IQ criteria, the researchers would (as earlier) validate the erotophobia-erotophilia measurement by comparing reactions of male students had to the erotic slides to their test results. It there was a positive correlation, the researchers could continue. If not, they would have to ...

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