Outline for Speech on Sex Education

Introduction: Do you know the outcome of lack of sex education, which can cause us the worst consequence? “It’s bringing the HIV into our body”, according to Former U.S. General Jocelyn Elders at a Community Health Centers of Arkansas. Today, I will talk about the consequence of lack of sex education, and the advantage of having sex education. According the General Jocelyn Elders, the lack of sex makes the children vulnerable to sexual assault and sexually transmitted infections. It is also cost the U.S a heavy price for not educating our young people. Thesis: The lack of sex education bringing to our people, adolescence many troublesome. If we have this education for them, we would avoid many bad consequences for them, the your people and for the our country.
(TRANSITION: Now, we will examine the reason why
Body:
I. There are various kinds of effects lack of sex education bring us, but HIV is one of the most serious one.

A. HIV/AIDS epidemic remains a serious health concern for young people, and unprotected sexual activity is responsible for a substantial majority of these infections in youth.

1. Several groups of young people are at an elevated risk for HIV infection, including young men who have sex with men, bisexual, victims of sexual abuse.

2. Through December 2000, CDC statistics show 774,467 reported AIDS cases; 4,061 cases were among teenagers 13 to 19 years of age. One in eight women of them, ages 15 to 19, becomes pregnant each year.

II. Many facts show that people who have learned sex education is conscious for avoid engaging in sex. A. According to the study published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine found that only one third of sixth- and seventh-graders who completed abstinence-focused programs had sex within the next two years, compared to nearly half of the students who attended other classes, including ones that taught combined abstinence and contraception
B. After the sex education spread widely in U.S during last decade. Number of teens involved into sex effect steadily decline.
1. The pregnancy rate among U.S. women aged 15–19 has declined steadily—from 117 pregnancies per 1,000 women in 1990 to 75 per 1,000 women in 2002.
2. Teenage birth and abortion rates also declined, with births dropping 35 percent from 1991 to 2005

Conclusion: Lack of sex education is very harmful for us, especially on the youth. Its bring them many serious ill such as HIV/AIDS, STD, etc. So sex education is a need for all of us. The schools should provide this program to the children in their middle or high school year in order to avoid the effects of our life and to the nation.