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Educational Pioneer
An early pioneer of sexual education was John Humphrey Noyes (1811 – 1886), who in 1848 founded the Oneida Community, a utopian settlement in upstate New York which lasted until 1881. He was known for starting male birth control, because of his method he published a short book about it called, “Male Continence”. -
Comstock Law
This law prohibited the distribution of “obscene” materials via the mail. What was deemed “obscene” was rather vague; artwork, novels, scientific and medical information on birth control were confiscated and those distributing these items were often arrested and sent to jail. -
The Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis
This program was started in New York Ciry, and was used to promote the apperication of scardness of human sexual relations, and to minimize the moral and physical evils resulting from ingorance and vice. -
American Federation for Sex Hygiene and American Vigilance Association
These programs were founded in 1912 in New York City. They adressed sexaulity from a hygiene standpoint and were espically concerned with prosititution as a social vice. -
Sex education in schools
Sex education made its way into the curriculum and into the schools in United States and in France. American Sex Education normally took place in High School Biology courses. -
Rockafeller Foundation
This foundation was intrustmental in research for sex research and education. It funded the Committee for Research in Problems of Sex, which sponsored studies spanning such diverse topics as illegitimacy, prostitution, abortion, and sexual practice of regular citizens. The foundation also helped Sanger fund the first birth control clinic in America, as well as funding research into the chemical composition of spermicides. -
Teachers
By the 1930's the U.S. Office of Education begain to publish materials and train teachers for Sex Education. -
Comstock law
In 1936 in New York City, Vermont, and Connecticut, thanks to Maragret Sanger ruled that birth c ontrol was no longer classified as obscene and married couples could recieve birth control through their doctor. -
SIECUS
SIECUS which stands for Sex Information and Educational Council of the United States was founded by Mary Calderon. -
Teacher programs
In 1968, The U.S. Office of Education gave New York University a grant to develop graduate programs for training sex-education teachers. -
Chastity Law
In 1981, Congress passed the Adolescent Family
Life Act (AFLA), also known as the "chastity law." It
funded educational programs to "promote selfdiscipline
and other prudent approaches" to
adolescent sex, or "chastity education." Federal
funds were granted to abstinence-only programs
that were developed by churches and religious
conservatives nationwide. -
Sex education
23 states 23 states had passed mandates for sexuality education, an additional 23 states strongly encouraged sex education, 33 mandated AIDS education and 17 additional states recommended it. -
Guidelines for Sex Education
In 1990, SIECUS convened the National
Guidelines Task Force, a panel of experts that
constructed a framework within which local
communities could design effective curricula
and/or evaluate existing programs. The resulting
Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education K-12th Grade was first published in 1991. These guidelines identified the role of sexuality education in promoting sexual
health. -
Welform Reform Act
Religious conservatives, in particular, helped add provisions for abstinence education to the 1996 WELFARE REFORM ACT, and the federal government for the first time began to direct tens of millions of dollars to abstinence education programs, most of which were tied to religious groups rather than the more traditional public health organizations. -
Future of Sex education
This project was started by the staff from advocates of youth and the SIECUS. The purpose of the project is to create a national dialogue about the future of sex education and to promote the institutionalization of comprehensive sexuality education in elementary schools. -
Standards
In January 2012, a consortium of organizations —
the Future of Sex Education Initiative (FoSE) —
published its National Sexuality Education
Standards — Core Content and Skills, K–12.
