They identify problems, seek possible solutions, and then act to make things better. This process validates participants and empowers them, and the dedicated educator or clinician helps people become more conscious of their own values regarding childbearing and more able to act in ways congruent with those values. By confronting the chaos of sexual messages that confuse them, people are able to learn how to take charge of their reproductive lives. Positive sexuality indeed. Teaching Abstinence, Contraception , and Sexual Health .
Survey finds parents favor more detailed sex education.
New York Times , October 4, 2000. Catholics for a Free Choice. A Matter of Conscience . Freire P. Pedagogy of the Oppressed . This issue focuses largely on positive sexuality the belief that sexuality is a natural, normal, and positive part of being human, of being a teen, of being alive.