Sex Education Sex education is viewed as a formal instructional program to provide children and young adults with an objective understanding of sex as a biological, psychological, and social life force. A comprehensive curriculum, developed for sequential age levels, would include discussion of the maturation and reproductive processes and extend, for example, to such related considerations as perception of obligations to the self and others; protection from sexually related disease, explotation, and unjury; and awareness of the maturity required for full expression of sex in love relationships. Supporters of formal sex education consider that sex