Article: U. Nebraska health center, peer educators spread sexual education

Krystal Overmyer
University Wire
04-02-2004
(Daily Nebraskan) (U-WIRE) LINCOLN, Neb. -- Let's talk about sex, baby.

To Pat Tetreault, sexuality education coordinator at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln University Health Center, America could take some clues from the old Salt-N-Pepa song.

In schools across the country, sex education seems to be more and more limited. A federal and local government push toward abstinence-only education has further stifled discussion of sexuality and sexual health, raising Tetreault's fears that America is heading toward higher rates of unintended pregnancies, abortions and sexually transmitted diseases.

"The message we end up giving youth is, 'Don't have sex. ...

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