The first of its kind in Minnesota, St. Louis Park High School students have created a sexual health education club for a more meaningful discussion about sex. The club will kick start on January and will discuss topics like birth control, abstinence, sexual transmitted infection and ways to nurture a healthy relationship.
The club will be consisting mainly of grade 9 to 12 students while a teacher will be assigned to attend the meetings. However, the discussion will be pioneered and controlled by three students who are the club founders namely, Brita Hunegs, Shoshi Fischman and Dave Herrera.
Training will be attended by the three students wherein they will learn about sex education. They will be trained by myHealth for Teens and Young Adults, a specialty clinic in Hopkins for sexual health. This organization is responsible and in charge of developing sex education curriculums for schools in the country.
According to one of the students, Shoshi Fischman, convincing the school was a daunting task. It took them approximately six months of negotiations on what topics to include and how they would be trained to become capable of the huge responsibility.
She told the Minnesota Public Radio News, "We're here to educate and instill confidence in people to make their own choices and they can say no when they want to say no and know how to control their own bodies and do everything that they can do for themselves. We're here to educate people on the topic of safe sex, not just to have sex and not to just promote sex."
She added that teenagers and adolescents are more likely to listen to sex education lessons from their friends or classmates than their professors. Meanwhile, Dave Herrera, co-founder of the club hopes the leaders can be seen as people whom students can approach and talk to on sex concerns and issues.