people who receive abstinence-only education, which tends to use external motivations, start to have sex around the same time as their peers and have around the same number of sexual partners overall.5 Meanwhile, people who receive comprehensive sexuality education, which focuses on giving people a broader range on information (including information on abstinence, condoms, and contraception) in hopes that they will use this education to make their own internally motivated decisions, report delayed or reduced sexual activity (not to mention an increased use of contraceptives when they do have
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