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Dr. Prince Morrow
Dr. Prince Morrow organized the American Society for Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, which was the first to rally for sex education in schools as a means to eradicate venereal disease and other “diseases of the social order” -
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger began her pioneering work dispensing birth control information to young women in New York City -
Sausalito News, Volume 28, Number 29,
National Education Association called for teacher training programs in sexuality education during their 15th meeting in Chicago. -
Charles
Sex education in schools gained popularity as the Social Hygiene movement of the Progressive era grew, specifically in 1913 with the establishment of the American Social Hygiene Association (ASHA) -
Victorian era
sex was still thought of in moral terms and followed the notions of purity, chastity, and sexual repression of the Victorian era. -
Laissez-faire lessons
Education Act gave lip-service to the need for sex education in schools. However, it was an extremely laissez-faire situation, with individual schools being allowed to choose how they wanted to approach the subject, and there was little government support. -
American Medical Association
American Medical Association, in conjunction with the NEA, published five pamphlets that were commonly referred to as "the sex education series" for schools -
The Pill
1.2 million Americans women are on the pill; after three years, the number almost doubles, to 2.3 million. -
Opposition: Phyllis Schlafly
leader of the far-right Eagle Forum, argued that sexuality education resulted in an increase in sexual activity among teens -
HIV/AIDS
The discovery of AIDS in the 1980’s brought a stark reality to America’s consciousness – that sex had risks far beyond the STDs of past generations or the. -
Adolecent Family Life Act (AFLA)
Through AFLA, the federal government for the first time invested on a small scale in local programs designed to prevent teenage pregnancy by encouraging "chastity and self-discipline" among teenagers. -
U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop
U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop issued a report calling for comprehensive AIDS and sexuality education in public schools, beginning as early as the third grade. -
US school systems
By 1988, over 90 percent of all U.S. schools offered some sex education programming. The current debates over sex education focus mainly on the relative merits of abstinence-only curricula and comprehensive sex education programs. -
Emergency contraception
Emergency contraception prevented 51,000 abortions in 2000. -
Teacher Survey
The survey results, published in 2000, show that the percentage of public school teachers in grades 7-12 who teach abstinence as the only way of preventing pregnancies and STDs rose dramatically between 1988 and 1995. -
Compulsory plans fail
Plans for compulsory sex ed classes (which included contraception, abortion and homosexuality) in schools were Plans for compulsory sex ed classes (which included contraception, abortion and homosexuality) in schools were dropped by dropped by Labour before the election after being blocked by the Tories. The move was welcomed by faith groups, who wanted the choice to opt out.
