Sex education is the provision of knowledge about body development, sex, sexuality, and relationships, as well as skill development, to assist young people in communicating about sex and making educated decisions about their sexual Sex education is high quality teaching and learning about a broad variety of topics related to sex and sexuality. It explores values and beliefs about those topics and helps people gain the skills that are needed to navigate relationships with self, partners, and community, and manage one’s own sexual health.Sexuality education aims to develop and strengthen the ability of children and young people to make conscious, satis- fying, healthy and respectful choices regarding relationships, sexuality and emotional and physical healthSex education may take place in schools, at home, in community settings, or online.

TYPES OF SEX EDUCATION

Sex education can be divided into four main types:

• Abstinence-only Sex Education;
• Comprehensive Sex Education;
• Abstinence plus, or Dual-Protection Sex Education;
• Refusal Skills Sex Education; and.
• Contraception Sex Education.