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A century ago, sexual intercourse before marriage was forbidden. Along with fashion, and women’s rights, this trend among young people has changed dramatically. “Two out of five (40%) of 14-year-old American girls will become pregnant before their 20th birthday” (McCall 1). Unfortunately, young people today are not more educated about sexual intercourse than young people at the turn of the century. Although abstinence is the best form of birth control, adolescents today continue to engage in sexual intercourse, and school boards need to recognize that education, as well as available contraception, in all schools is the only effective method of fighting teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Peer pressure, and sexual myths are misleading but they are also preventable by education. Most teenagers and adolescents wonder about sexual intercourse. Television, older siblings, and classmates bombard these impressionable minds with (often false) information about sex. “Everyone is doing it,” is a common form of peer pressure. Teenagers should be aware of the statistic that “Of the 29 million young people in the United States of America between the ages of 13 and 19, approximately 12 million have had sex