'Learning about sex is a normal part of growing up'

Research has shown that abstinence-only sex education hasn't worked. That's no surprise, says Simon Blake, who believes young people need more, not less, information and choice.

New American research has confirmed that abstinence-only education doesn't work. The study found that teenagers who had been educated to believe they should not have sex before marriage were, in fact, just as likely as other teenagers to become sexually active.

Hopefully, the advocates of the chastity pledge, both in the US, and in the UK where some recently have tried to emulate the American approach, will now accept that abstinence-only education is not the silver bullet that can solve high rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

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