ReCAPP's educator skill for April 2001 is designed to help educators prevent and respond to controversy surrounding sexuality education. The following skills and strategies for preventing and responding to sexuality education controversies are presented as a way to effectively relay factual information while combating challenges by opponents. 1 Fanatic A person who has excessive zeal for, or irrational attachment to a cause. 1 Opponent Someone who disagrees with or is resistant in a battle, contest, dispute, or debate.
Little time is dedicated to contraception, condoms, safer-sex, and STIs.
Abstinence-only curricula generally focus on abstinence. These curricula do not discuss contraception or safer sex. Fear-based curricula generally use scare tactics as the major strategy for encouraging abstinence from sexual behavior before marriage. Contraceptive information is omitted, and students are required to consider only the negative consequences of sex. 2 Comprehensive sexuality education curricula generally cover anatomy, physiology, contraception, safer sexual behavior, relationships, and abstinence.