Why is sex education important? Help students of different generations grasp the information they need about the dangers of sex. 46% of high school students in the United States have had sexual intercourse and are at risk for human immunodeficiency virus infection, pregnancy, and sexually transmitted diseases. The National Human Immunodeficiency Virus Plan for the United States of America recommends educating students and young adults about human immunodeficiency virus infection before they begin having sexual intercourse, which puts young adults at risk for contract the human immunodeficiency virus. While sex education at an early age may not be the most appropriate way to inform students, it is helpful in many ways. For starters, sex education provides information about different types of STDs and other dangerous risks that come with sex. Sex education plays an important role in the decline of sexually transmitted diseases, human immunodeficiency virus infection and AIDS as a whole. The more students know about the different risks they face when they have sex, the more they may not want to have it. For example, if a student has no knowledge about the different sexually transmitted diseases that exist in the world today, he can go and have sex freely. That student would have no idea what he might spread or how much he and his partner would be in danger. This is where sex education comes in and saves the lives of many young people by informing them about different types and forms of sexually transmitted diseases. Second, sex education can increase student abstinence. When students learn the different risks of having sex, they may not want to have it anymore. Most sex education courses are taught by informing students and young adults to wait until marriage. It also teaches that abstinence is the best way to remain worry-free. Furthermore, by being abstinent there is absolutely no risk of contracting any type of sexually transmitted disease, human immunodeficiency virus infections or AIDS. Sex education also teaches and shows statistics on teenage pregnancies and dropouts due to young women becoming pregnant. Because young, non-pregnant women and men know the risks of sex, it is more than likely that 40% of these students will not have unprotected sex, if they have sex at all. Finally, sex education could be helpful in the movement to stop abortions..