When condoms are available in schools and are successfully used by sexually active adolescents, they are an effective means of preventing potentially harmful outcomes such as HIV/STDs and pregnancy. Sexually active teens are at the highest risk for contracting HIV. We must provide those who are already sexually active with condoms if we want to protect society. .
Many people do not realize how early kids are having sex. Eleven and twelve year olds are having sex. When I was in junior high school, five years ago, students had sex. Imagine what age sexual activity starts now. Children are having sex earlier than ever, babies are having babies, and worst of all people are dying. Students are embarrassed to go buy condoms, they are too expensive, or they do not know where to buy them. The adoption of such programs reflects a broader community mores, communicated positive social norms and environmental supports and facilitated communication of family values and norms promoting condom use. Opponents of these programs claim that providing access to condoms and even discussing the benefits of birth control and disease prevention methods other than abstinence encourages teenagers to engage in sexual activity that they might otherwise refrain from. They also assert that such education encourages students who are already having sex to do so more often or with more partners. The nurse provides band-aids, and kids are not going to go cut themselves just because they can get one.Providing condoms in schools increases condom use among students who are already sexually active while it has no effect on the numbers of students engaging in sexual intercourse. The availability of condoms would not urge the students to have sex, and more often. Sex is a personal choice depending on when the person is ready. Nothing can change that decision, and if condoms were available for free in high school, when most people have sex for the first time, then it will more than likely be a safe decision.