Local teens cope with loss of sex-ed

With one of the highest teen pregnancy rates among industrialized countries and 19 million new sexually-transmitted infections each year, the United States needs youth sex education classes. They help teens bridge the gap between what they know about sex, and what they think they know about sex. But the Long Beach school district cut sex education classes two years ago, and young people must look elsewhere for facts about sex. “I’ve been forced to direct my questions about sex to my mother. Other teens…look to their friends or the Internet. Sadly what they don’t understand is that their friends don’t know much more than they do.” Get the update from high school students on life without sex-ed in school, on Voicewaves.