Posted on 17/07/08
Girls-only sex ed
A just-for-girls sexual education curriculum taught in Waterloo, Ont., schools appears to be having a positive effect on teens' sexual health knowledge. An evaluation of the Girl Time: Grade 7/8 Healthy Sexuality Program released in yesterday's edition of The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality found that students who had taken the course were more likely than non-participants to gain sexual health knowledge, discuss sex with their parents, feel confident in their ability to enact a variety of safer behaviours such as buying condoms and say they intended to engage in safe sex practices.
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