School sex education refers to providing children and adolescents with age-appropriate phased education related to rights, relationships and sex and reproductive health through formal education channels, providing a gender perspective. The Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on the Protection of Minors clearly states that schools and kindergartens should provide sex education suitable for minors.
At present, the age of adolescent sexual development and behavior is getting earlier and earlier; Lack of necessary knowledge and awareness of self-protection may lead to unintended pregnancy, induced abortion, sexually transmitted infections, sexual assault and school bullying, and endanger the physical and mental health of children and adolescents. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out sex education in schools.
At present, there are mainly three different sex education modes in the world, namely abstinence sex education, comprehensive sex education and comprehensive sex education.
The United Nations International Educational Technology Guide (Revised Edition) defines school sex education as providing children and adolescents with staged education related to rights, relationships and sexual and reproductive health through formal education channels, and providing a gender perspective.
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Sex education is about human sexuality, involving sexual cognition, emotion, body and society. According to different classification standards, sex education can be divided into many categories, such as school sex education, family sex education, community sex education and social education. Or it can be divided into abstinence education and comprehensive education according to the model. Among them, the teaching process of exploring cognitive, emotional, physical and social significance based on curriculum is called comprehensive education.