{"id":29008,"date":"2010-11-30T10:33:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T15:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=29008"},"modified":"2013-12-02T23:14:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T04:14:10","slug":"boys-receive-less-sex-education-than-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/11\/30\/boys-receive-less-sex-education-than-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys Receive Less Sex Education Than Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cross-posted at Jezebel<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control<\/a> (via Family Inequality<\/a>) reveals that boys report less sex education than girls.<\/p>\n

What teenagers report learning from school:<\/p>\n

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What teenagers report learning from their parents:<\/p>\n

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Compared to boys, then, girls report more guidance from school and significantly more from their parents. This probably reflects cultural ideas that boys naturally desire sex, have a positive sense of their own sexuality, and that nothing really bad can happen to them; in contrast, the risk that sex poses to girls’ reputations and the possibility of sexual violence and pregnancy often shape how educators and parents manage their emerging sexualities.<\/p>\n

Or it might be an artifact of self-reporting. \u00a0Thoughts?<\/p>\n

See also our popular post on STI, pregnancy, and abortion rates in the U.S. versus select European countries<\/a>\u00a0(hint: the U.S. doesn’t come out smelling like roses).<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cross-posted at Jezebel. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control (via Family Inequality) reveals that boys report less sex education than girls. What teenagers report learning from school: What teenagers report learning from their parents: Compared to boys, then, girls report more guidance from school and significantly more from their parents. This probably […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2083,223,34,55,2099,2101,252,120],"class_list":["post-29008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortionreproduction","tag-childrenyouth","tag-education","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-gender-education","tag-healthmedicine","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29008"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59520,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29008\/revisions\/59520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}