[KG.]

How would teaching children at that age that sex is not an option be any more beneficial than teaching safe sex?

I know it's not the case with all children, but once you tell a child/teenager something is forbidden, there will always be a few, if not a lot of them that will go and do it. As Stu said, whether you like it or not, there will be children doing it, no matter how much you try and teach them that it is not an option.

The sensible kids that age won't have sex then anyway, therefore educating the ones that will go and have sex about safe sex is the only option imo.