I got interested in sex education when...

16 & Pregnant became "the" reality show to watch on MTV.  It occurred to me that teen pregnancy was on the rise, so popular that there was an entire television series dedicated to it.  I thought it was strange that a national channel was glamorizing the lifestyle of a teenage mother.  A lot more pregnancies began to occur in my high school after the series began to air.  The rising number of pregnancies made me wonder why teens, both males and females, did not take the necessary precautions to avoid pregnancy.  In the beginning, I was baffled.  Then I realized that I had not attended a sex education class since I was in the sixth grade.  The situation was the same for most of the people in my high school and in my age group.  A lot of people don't like to talk about sex, so they don't.  I think it is time to be realistic about sex and teach it.  Teens are going to have sex whether they are educated about it or not.