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Comprehensive Sex Education vs. The Authentic Abstinence Model
  • Non-Directive Comprehensive Model
  • Focuses on sexual roles and “rights”
  • Encourages giving and receiving pleasure

  • Intends for kids to be sexually literate and comfortable
  • Describes oral sex, self and mutual stimulation, and outercourse as “low risk” behaviors and alternatives to intercourse
  • Lists many options and choices in regards to sexual behaviors
  • Redefines abstinence as “not having genital sex”
  • Heralds “safe/safer sex” message

  • Diminishes significance of consequences
  • Fails to focus on marriage
  • Redefines the family
  • Dissolves inhibitions and feelings of guilt or shame

  • Promotes limited parental involvement
  • Describes “mature teen sex” as “responsible sex”
  • Considers waiting until you are “ready” for sex as responsible
  • Directive Character-Based Abstinence- only Model
  • Teaches societal norms that guide behavior
  • Helps to prepare individual to exist and thrive in family and community
  • Teaches refusal and assertive skills
  • Presents non-sexual healthy alternatives to sexual activity

  • Gives ideas on creative dating
  • Teaches the difference between sex and love
  • Stresses freedoms derived from saying “No” to sex and “Yes” to relationships
  • Seeks to develop self-respect, character and integrity
  • Celebrates differences between men and women
  • Enables kids to know the traits of a healthy relationship
  • Helps kids discern unhealthy messages from the media and motivation behind the messages
  • Encourages parental involvement
  • Empowers kids toward dignity and ethical behavior
  • Teaches steps to intimacy
Additional Benefits of the Authentic Abstinence Model
  • Helps teens to set boundaries with regards to sexual behavior
  • Encourages renewed virginity and second chances
  • Helps teens with short and long term goals setting
  • Abstinence builds personal efficacy and establishes a foundation of responsibility.
  • Focuses on changing behavior
  • Is fact-based, not fear-based
  • Recognizes the extreme power of sex and sexual relationships
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