Lücken in der Sexualerziehung können im Erwachsenenalter nachhaltige Auswirkungen haben, darunter Beziehungsprobleme, mangelndes Selbstvertrauen und eine verminderte Lebensqualität. 1/3 hatte in ihrer Jugend nie Informationen über gesunde Beziehungen, Einwilligung, Kommunikation mit Partnern, Vergnügen oder Dating aus der Schule, Familie oder Freunden.
https://news.iu.edu/kinseyinstitute/live/news/47616-kinsey-institute-study-shows-lasting-impact-of
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I’ve linked to the press release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19317611.2025.2566816
From the linked article:
A new Kinsey Institute study has found **gaps in sex education can have lasting impacts throughout adulthood, including relationship struggles, lack of confidence, and reduced quality of life**.
Surveying 3,895 U.S. single adults (aged 18 to 98 years) on 16 topics typically included in comprehensive sex education programs, researchers found approximately **a third never received any kind of information about healthy relationships, consent, communicating with partners, pleasure, or dating during their youth from any source, including school, family, friends, or somewhere else**.
Only one of the 16 assessed topics was learned about in school by a majority of participants, with 55% stating they covered reproduction or pregnancy. Other topics participants most commonly learned in school included puberty (44%), preventing or testing for STIs (43%), and contraception (41%). Very few learned about consent (17%), gender (12%), or healthy relationships (7%) in school. The least covered topics related how to make you or your partner feel good and communicate about what you want, which were all around 4%.
More than 90% of participants reported receiving more information on at least some of these topics would have created a positive impact on their lives today. Substantial proportions of participants said that better sex education would have led to healthier romantic relationships (44%), a better understanding of how to be a good partner (40%), improved sexual confidence (40%), a better quality of life (35%), and a better understanding of their own body (29%) today.
My not same sex spouse came from a place where there is zero private or public sex education. I come from a place where it starts young and is comprehensive. I was the first person they had ever dated, and when we met, I knew more about their body than they did. I’m not sure they would have ever had much pleasure from relationships if they didn’t meet someone from a different culture.
Aside from consent, which falls under sexual assault awareness and prevention, are any of those topics really the responsibility of teachers?
Lack of sexual education also leaves people open to abuse and exploitation because they just don’t know any better.