New Sexual Education program tailored for African American Males

Sex Ed programs interventions have not been designed comprehensively to address African American sexual norms and beliefs.  The programs have been developed and evaluated for mixed gender or female only majority. populations.  Which has caused a gap of sexual understanding or knowledge on avoiding risking sexual behavior within inner city males. So the Fifth Ward Enrichment Program is offering more than 20 full support services to inner city African American Youth.

I personally believe that it makes since to have different programs to teach African Americans about safe sex in a different way.  As we learned in class, the way an African American male hits on a girl is by using more sexually suggestive lines because they are more okay with sexuality being talked about than the average Caucasian is.   So in a class room full of Caucasians you hold back on the explicit sexual talk in order to help make them not embarrassed, which would allow you them to  understand what you are saying because they wouldn’t tune you in out.  It would be hard to embarrass an African American male when discussing sexual acts so you would be able to elaborate more and probably should elaborate more in order to get your safety messages across.

Do you think that your sexual education program was tailored to one specific race?  Do you believe that Sexual Education should be taught differently to different races?  If so do you believe the different ways African Americans date is the reason to alter the teaching of safe sex?

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