sex education
Also known as birds and bees, sexual education
instruction on issues relating to basic sexuality
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Sex education is instruction that teaches people about basic sexuality and related issues. It matters because it provides people with factual information about their bodies and sexual health.
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Example of a pedagogical tool: The Austrian Sexkoffer, a "suitcase" of sex education materials used in Austrian schools in the late 1980s, including a booklet intended to explain contraception during sexual education sessions (District Museum Josefstadt, Vienna, Austria) Sex education, also known as sexual education, sexuality education or sex ed, is the instruction of issues relating to human sexuality, including human sexual anatomy, sexual activity, sexual reproduction, safe sex, birth control, sexual and reproductive health, emotional relationships and responsibilities, age of consent, and reproductive rights.
Sex education that includes all of these issues is known as comprehensive sexuality education. In contrast, abstinence-only sex education, which focuses solely on promoting sexual abstinence, is often favored in more socially conservative regions, including some parts of the United States.