CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISONS: MORALITY – FORMAL SEX EDUCATION IN USA
In contrast to many other societies, children and adolescents in the United States typically receive little formal sex education. Although sex education is a part of the curriculum in many school systems, studies have repeatedly shown that, for the most part, our sexual attitudes and knowledge emerge from more informal influences. Some examples of informal education are: a parent cautioning a two-year-old not to go out unclothed; young children playing "doctor"; an adolescent discovering that genital stimulation is pleasurable; young adults gossiping about sexual topics between classes.
Given these sources of sexual information, the question still remains as to which of these circumstances, formal or informal, are most influential in predicting or shaping our actual sexual behaviors. Recently, the sociologist Graham Spanier investigated the impact of each of these sources of education on the premarital sexual behavior of 1,177 college students. Using statistical procedures, he was able to determine which of these variables best predicted sexual behavior. In males, the single best predictor of premarital sexual patterns was the activity of reading sexually related books and magazines, viewing pornographic materials, and being involved with other sources of erotica. Frequency of childhood sex play and of high school dating were of less importance. For females, being sexually assaulted or exhibited to as an adolescent were the most important predictors of premarital sexual patterns. Perhaps most significantly, the variable of "formal sex education course" was of no utility in predicting the sexual behavior of either males or females. Thus, we gain most of our important sexual information from informal sources, information which is often incorrect and misleading.
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