"It's okay to talk about sex! It's okay to think about sex! It's okay to want to have sex, but sex can wait!"

For years, the state has only required our schools to teach teens about sexual abstinence - not contraception, consent, or safety. In this episode, we'll explore the consequences of keeping young people in the dark.

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Music: "Sitting-Fog" by Ketsa used for educational, non-commercial purposes.

Citations:

1. Stats of the State - Teen Birth Rates. (2021, February 8). Retrieved April 24, 2021, from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/teen-births/teenbirths.htm

2. Preventing Pregnancies in Younger Teens. (2019, December 19). Retrieved April 24, 2021, from CDC Vital Signs website: https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/young-teen-pregnancy/index.html

3. St.Cyr, S. et. al. (2020, December 17). Update to CDC’s Treatment Guidelines for Gonococcal Infection, 2020. Retrieved April 24, 2021, from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6950a6.htmAbuse/IPV source

4. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children’s Bureau. (2021). Child Maltreatment 2019. Available from https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/research-data-technology/statistics-research/child-maltreatment.

5. The SIECUS State Profiles: Kentucky. (2020, April 7). Retrieved April 24, 2021, from SIECUS website: https://siecus.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Kentucky-PDF.pdf

6. An Act Relating to Health Education, Kentucky S.B. 71. (2022, February). Retrieved April 10, 2022, from Kentucky General Assembly website: https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/sb71/bill.pdf

7. An Act Relating to Health Education, Kentucky H.B. 13. (2022, February). Retrieved April 10, 2022, from Kentucky General Assembly website: https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/22RS/hb13/orig_bill.pdf

8. Sexuality Education, Sexual Violence Prevention, Abstinence, and Distribution of Condoms in Schools H-170.968. (2018). Retrieved April 24, 2021, from AMA Policy Finder website: https://policysearch.ama-assn.org/policyfinder/detail/sexual%20education?uri=%2FAMADoc%2FHOD.xml-0-993.xml

9. Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Policies and Programs: An Updated Position Paper of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. (2017, September 1). Retrieved April 24, 2021, from Journal of Adolescent Health website: https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(17)30297-5/fulltext