Did you know that Illinois ranked 21st out of 51 in pregnancies between the ages of 15 and 19? Not knowing the consequences that come with sex means getting pregnant or transmitting a disease and these are mistakes that could affect their lives. Comprehensive sex education should be taught in public high schools throughout Illinois. Teens should be exposed to sex education and have easy access to products that protect them from pregnancy. Furthermore, they should have access to information on other sexually transmitted diseases. Safe sex practices should be taught in Illinois public high schools because they prevent transmitted diseases and make teens reconsider sexual intercourse. Comprehensive sex education addresses both abstinence and age-appropriate information about contraception. . Comprehensive sex education is influentially appropriate, introducing information about relationships, decision making, and developing skills to resist peer pressure. In 1900, sex education was introduced in public high schools to teach social hygiene. Social hygiene is The social hygiene movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was an attempt by Progressive Era reformers to control venereal disease, regulate prostitution and vice, and spread sex education through the use of scientific research methods. of sexual disease. In the 1960s the controversy over contraception began with the advent of birth control. There was a lot of controversy because people believed you had to get married before having sex, and birth control goes against the teaching of the Catholic Church. The teaching of the Catholic Church basically says that you should be celibate. Celibate means you should wait until marriage to have sex. Because Catholics' belief in being celibate makes sex education no longer important to them. To reduce teen pregnancy rates, awareness of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases shifted attention to safe sex in the 1980s. Theirs was a 1981 act that introduced abstinence-only programs that started a movement in the 1990s. Abstinence programs were thought to be ineffective as the years passed. In 2007, the US Congress found that abstinence programs were not helpful. First, safe sex practices should be taught in Illinois public high schools, because if they are not taught, more teenagers will have unplanned pregnancies. The absence of education makes teens want to learn about sex, which pushes them to try to be sexually active. This is why sex education should be in every public high school in Illinois. Shows like “Bad Girls Club” show adolescence about meeting boys and