Public opinion polls have confirmed that the majority of Americans, both parents and students, support teaching sex education in our schools. For example, a poll conducted in 2004 by the Henry Kaiser Family Foundation, the Kennedy School of Government, and National Public Radio determined that more than 90 percent of parents supported teaching sex education in schools. The results of this study also revealed that: 93% of parents found that sex education programs at their children's school were very or somewhat helpful in addressing sexual issues, 98% wanted their children to know about sexual 'HIV and AIDS, 94% wanted their children to know how to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases, 93% of respondents wanted their children to be taught abstinence until marriage, 83% were interested in their child learning to use a condom correctly, and 71% of participants believed that it is important for their children to know that “adolescents can receive contraceptives from various family planning clinics without parental permission” (Kaiser Family Foundation , National Public Radio, Harvard University, 2004). And in a recent survey, 89% of Americans said it is important that sex education in schools include information about contraception and the prevention of unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV (Henshaw S., 2002 ). The Kaiser poll also found that approximately 46% of Americans surveyed believe the most appropriate approach to teaching young people about sexual health is “abstinence plus”; This means that, overall, respondents believe that schools and programs should teach effective condom and contraception use while emphasizing abstinence. Approximately 36% of respondents said they believe that abstinence is not the most... focus of the paper... sex education is necessary because students will undoubtedly encounter a situation throughout their lives where they could use the knowledge gained during the sex education program. Nowadays, children acquire their knowledge about sex from the media and more often than not the messages they receive from the media are highly negative and degrading. Children cannot and should not rely on the media for their sex education or be “scared” out of having sex because of alarmist misinformation taught by abstinence-only programs. Rather, children need to be properly educated about these concepts so that they can understand the importance of safe sex, how to avoid unprotected sex, the risks of sexually transmitted diseases, effective communication and relationship skills, as well as being in an environment where they feel comfortable. talk about sex (Lagina/ Lawyers for young people, 2009).