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Morals and sexuality
Promoting sexuality Sexual education has been a major moral dilemma since the year 1892, when the National Education Association passed a resolution citing the need for “moral education in the schools”. This hot-button issue has made notably slow progress over the course of history, largely due to religious principles enforcing conservatism. -
The Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis
The objective of this society was to limit the spread of diseases that have their origin in the social evil. -
the American Vigilance Association were founded
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The American Federation for Sex Hygiene
At the beginning of the twentieth century venereal disease was a prevalent concern for social health organizations. Diseases such a syphilis and gonorrhea affected many people and the social stigma attached to sexually transmitted disease prevented most people from discussing or addressing means of treatment for venereal disease. In 1913, at a conference in Buffalo, New York, several organizations dedicated to fighting prostitution and venereal disease joined together to form the American Social -
First sex education program was in Chicago
In 1913, Chicago became the first major city to implement sex ed for high schools. The program didn't last long, though. The Catholic Church soon launched a campaign against the initiative. http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/10/27/the-sin-of-yielding-to-impure-desire.htmlhttp://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/10/27/the-sin-of-yielding-to-impure-desire.html -
ASHA
American Social Hygiene Association (ASHA) was created on Valentine's Day. ASHA championed sex education. -
U.S. Department of Labor's Children's Bureau
The earliest sex-education film, Damaged Goods, warned soldiers of the consequences of syphilis. A 1919 report from the U.S. Department of Labor's Children's Bureau suggested that soldiers would have been better off if they had received sex education in school rather than from this video. http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/10/27/the-sin-of-yielding-to-impure-desire.html -
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United States Public health service concerns
By 1940, the U.S. Public Health Service had made a strong statement about the importance of sex education in schools. This statement was partly the result of concern over the spread of sexually transmitted diseases among soldiers and sailors during the first and second world wars. -
American Medical Association Pamphlets
In 1954, the American Medical Association worked with the National Education Association to publish a series of pamphlets that became the basis of most school-based sex education programs. http://connection.ebscohost.com/education/sex-education-schools/history-sex-education -
The dawn of the birth control era
In 1960, the first birth control pill was developed.http://connection.ebscohost.com/education/sex-education-schools/history-sex-education -
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Contraceptives for married couples and unmarried couple
In 1965 contraceptives were made legal for married couples. Seven years later, contraceptives were permitted for unmarried people as well. There was some resistance to these transformations in American sexual values, and many saw attempts to broaden sex education in schools as attacks on traditional morals. http://connection.ebscohost.com/education/sex-education-schools/history-sex-education -
Sexuality education and backlash
In the 1970s, Sex education was under attack, many organizations believed that sex education was a communist plot to destroy the fiber of america. They believed that sex education was illegal, unconstituitional, anti-christian, and anti-god. https://books.google.com/books?id=FKmVUwbUlGgC&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=sexuality+education++1970&source=bl&ots=a3P5uu2gGM&sig=1E0ZYoT13pGLn90vPWin080q2TA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mX9mVeDpGMfvtQWE3oGoDQ&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=sexuality%20education%20%201970&f=false -
Adolescent Family Life Act (AFLA)
National conservative groups approached local school boards and national politicians with the message that: sexual behavior among unmarried young people is an epidemic, and abstinence-only-until-marriage programs in school are the solution. One of their early successes at the national level came as part of the which was passed in 1981 and is widely considered the precursor to todays abstinence-only-until-marriage programs.http://www.futureofsexed.org/background.html -
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Phi Alpha Delta
Between 1984 and 1985, Phi Alpha Delta conducted surveys to determine the public and teacher support for sex education. This study revealed that 81 percent of teachers endorsed sex education at the elementary level and 91 percent to high school students. -
The large majority of schools offered Sexuality education
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. http://connection.ebscohost.com/education/sex-education-schools/history-sex-education -
Sex Education 2000: A Call to Action
In June of 1989, SIECUS published “Sex Education 2000: A Call to Action,” which outlined 13 goals that would ensure that all children received comprehensive sexuality education by the year 2000.http://www.futureofsexed.org/background.html -
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Comprehensive sex ed is more effective than abstinence-only sex ed, but the federal government is funding the latter.
Between 1996 and federal Fiscal Year 2006 more than $1.5 billion in federal and state matching funds have been committed to abstinence-only programs..Sexual behaviors of teenagers did significantly improve from 1991 to 1997, but recent studies show that little change evolved from 1999 to 2003 – this is after the implementation of federally funded Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage initiatives in 1998. -
Welfare Reform Act
Religious conservatives, in particular, helped add provisions for abstinence education to the 1996 WELFARE REFORM ACT, and the federal government for the first time began to direct tens of millions of dollars to abstinence education programs, most of which were tied to religious groups rather than the more traditional public health organizations. aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/abbrev/prwora96.htm -
Special Projects of Regional and National Significance–Community-Based Abstinence Education (SPRANS-CBAE)
In 2000, conservative lawmakers upset by what they saw as states’ dilution of the abstinence-until-marriage message (some states were using Title V funds for media campaigns, youth development, and after school programs that lawmakers felt were not sufficiently focused on abstinence), created an additional $20 million federal funding stream, the Special Projects of Regional and National Significance–Community-Based Abstinence Education (SPRANS-CBAE).http://www.futureofsexed.org/background.html -
Case Study: Lower Teen Pregnancy rates
A November 2006 study of declining pregnancy rates among teens concluded that the reduction in teen pregnancy between 1995 and 2002 was primarily the result of increased use of contraceptives.19 However, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics show that teen birth rates are again on the rise.http://advocatesforyouth.org/publications/1487?task=view