Sex Ed

I have heard a lot lately about debates on sex ed. So I started thinking back to high school. I had a health class, but it was mostly about health, and std's. Nothing really about safe sex. I never really got the "birds and bees" talk. So it makes me wonder, if I had the "birds and the bees" talk, or a sex ed class, would I have made different decisions when it came to that? Which brings me to my main topic. If there was effective Sex Ed out there, would so many people be getting pregnant? And at what age is sex ed appropriate? Also what kind of sex ed? Safe Sex? or Abstenance?

I came across this link, and found it interesting.

http://www.avert.org/sexedu.htm