However, the article also explains how the comprehensive program not only teaches abstinence as an option but also a variety of other useful information on sexual education: Comprehensive Sex Education teaches about abstinence as the best method for avoiding STDs and unintended pregnancy, but also teaches about condoms and contraception to reduce the risk of unintended pregnancy and of infection with STDs, including HIV. It also teaches interpersonal and communication skills and helps young people explore their own values, goals, and options (Alford).
While the comprehensive program of study teaches that abstinence is the most effective way to head off any unwanted pregnancies or diseases, the abstinence only program tells that abstinence is the only morally accurate ways to approach sexual intercourse before marriage. The rest of the article goes on to show the different courses side by side in a comparison of how different subjects are taught in each course style. At nearly every point, the comprehensive programs covers a variety of issues per topic lesson and tells of various ways to handle each situation a young adult may encounter in their sexual life, and the abstinence only program tends to avoid cover topics that pertain to what happens after sex, consequences, and anything besides the idea that sex before marriage is morally unacceptable. The abstinence only program tends to be strictly centered on religious views and lifestyles instead of knowledge and a curriculum. .
This first article supports my view on this issue because I believe that all sexual education should be based on a comprehensive scale. This source gives me many examples to use in why abstinence only education is not the better choice for young students. On the side of comprehensive program, the author used logos to present their argument, basing all of their information on facts of the curriculum. However, on the abstinence only program, the only way the argument was able to be made was through ethos because the program relies heavily on morals and values as it is.
