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The aim of this study was to determine the effect of Sex Education by applying the Lebanese Sex Education Curriculum 2009 on developing positive sexual attitude and promoting good behaviour on year 12 life sciences' students in public high schools – Mount Lebanon during 3 months .An intervention was conducted by using Sex Education Curriculum 2009 on sample of 13 students, while this intervention wasn't applied on other high school (control group) with a sample of 8 students. Using quasi- experimental non-equivalent groups design (pre- posttest), evaluation of outcomes was measured by using a questionnaire from an Illustrative questionnaire for interview-surveys with young people done by John Cleland where questions were selected out according to the selected objectives of the new curriculum 2009 and student's social culture context and completed by 21 students. After analysing the data by using SPSS version 16.0, the findings implied that the government should re-introduce the Sex Education Curriculum 2009 as well as to improve it according to the students needs. (Author's abstract)