Programs with Mixed Reviews for Delaying the Initiation of
Sexual Intercourse: Sexuality Education

Draw the Line/Respect the Line is a 3-year, school-based sexuality education program for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students. The primary goal of this three-year abstinence-focused program is to postpone sexual involvement. This program promotes reducing the initiation of sexual activity first and then encouraging condom use among sexually experienced youth. The intervention employs a 20-session curriculum that helps youth to develop their own personal sexual limits and practice skills to maintain those limits. Each program lasts 45 - 60 minutes. The program was implemented in 19 middle schools with large populations of Latino youth in an urban area of Northern California. Ten of the schools were randomly assigned to receive the Draw the Line/Respect the Line program and the other nine received the regular school sexuality education curriculum. The program includes 3 curriculum guides, one for each grade 6, 7, and 8. Each curriculum can be purchased separately for $21 each or as a set for $56. An experimental evaluation of Draw the Line/Respect the Line found that program group males were less likely to report ever having sex or recent sexual activity, and they had fewer incidents of recent sex and fewer recent sexual partners than males in the control group. Females in the program group reported fewer incidents of unwanted sexual advances than females in the control group, but no other significant behavioral differences were found among females.


 
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