SEXUALITY

1. SEXUALITY Dave Cybulski, Meaghan Hanley, Stephanie Kokoski, Maaz Malik, Jay Moore, Victoria Morris

2. Objectives • To teach the class about human anatomy and safe sex • To inform them about the different types of Sexually Transmitted Infections • To inform them of Sexual harassment and peer pressure and what to do about it

3. Sexuality Packages • Includes: • Summarized handouts for all the subjects we will teach them. • Web sites • Phone numbers • Condom for the lesson on safe sex

4. Community Contact • Thunder Bay Health Unit- www.tbdhu.com • The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy -www.teenpregnancy.org • Resource Centre for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention-www.etr.org/recapp • Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada- www.ppfc.ca

5. Informational Websites • Sex, Etc. www.sxetc.org • Go Ask Alice- http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/ • Sexuality and U -http://www.sexualityandu.ca/eng/ • I Wanna know- www.iwannaknow.org

6. STI Testing • Thunder Bay District Health Unit • 999 Balmoral Street - 625-5976and Village Clinic - 624-2000

7. Lessons • For all of our lessons the boys will be in a separate room from the girls. • There will be a male teacher to teach the boys and a female teacher to teach the girls • The last 15 minutes at the end of every lesson will be question box time. • There will be a question box which each person will place in a piece of paper, with or without a question on it. The teacher will then answer each question out of the box.

8. Lesson One: Sexually Transmitted Infections • Curable (gonorrhea, syphilis, Chlamydia) • Incurable (HPV, genital herpes, HIV/AIDS) • How can you get them? • Who can get them? • How can you avoid getting them?

9. Matching game (groups 3) • Each group will receive a bag full of the infections, the symptoms and treatment plan. • They have to match the infection to the symptoms and the treatment. • Guest speaker who is HIV positive who will talk to the class

10. Lesson Two: Harassment and Peer Pressure • Ask the class what sexual harassment means to them • Explain the different kinds of harassment. • What to do when you witness it? • What do you do when you experience it? • What is peer pressure • How to deal with peer pressure

11. Extra Lesson • Girls have an extra class to learn self defense.

12. Activity: What would you say? • Photocopy enough handouts for the class • Discuss the pressure lines young people use • Discuss the techniques for saying No

13. What would YOU say? • “Everybody’s doing it!” • “Don’t you want to see what it’s like?” • “No one will know if we have sex. It’s no big deal.” • “If you don’t want to have sex maybe we should break up.” • “If you don’t have sex with me someone else will!” • “If you loved me you’d have sex with me. Don’t you trust me?” • “Nothing bad will happen.”

14. Lesson 3: Human Anatomy and Safe Sex • Teach the human anatomy • Handout activity sheet (Label the parts)

15. Female Plumbling

16. Male Plumbing

17. Abstinence • Abstinence is the only way to provide 100% protection from unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections • Human beings have many ways to express loving feelings, affection and caring, including gestures, actions, facial expressions and verbal or written comments of appreciation. People can demonstrate affection for others without becoming sexually involved

18. Feeling attracted to someone does not mean one is in love with that person. • Adolescents often confuse feelings of love and desire. • Sexual feelings and desires are natural, but they do not have to be acted on.

19. Activity: Ways to express affection • Think of ways other than sexual encounters to express affection to another person

20. Sexuality • Most people feel affection for both men and women. Adolescents who feel affection for peers or adults of the same sex need to know that such feelings are normal. • Homosexual: 1 characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward another of the same sex2 involving sexual intercourse between persons of the same sex • Bisexual: of, relating to, or characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward both sexes

21. Birth Control • Abstinence • Condoms- A latex condom used consistently during vaginal, anal and oral sex is an effective means of protection against being infected by HIV and many other STI-causing organisms. Condoms are not 100 percent effective – they can break and they must be used properly to be completely effective. • Birth Control Pills - birth control pills are taken every day to prevent pregnancy. They contain estrogen and progesterone. Beware for girls who smoke because there is increased risk of blood clots. • Birth Control Patch - a thin plastic patch applied to the skin. It contains estrogen and progesterone which are continuously released into the blood stream through the skin. Very few side effects.

22. Birth Control • Depo-Provera (shot) - progesterone injection given every 12 weeks. Some side effects: spotting or bleeding, moodiness, weight gain/loss, slow return of fertility, loss of bone mineral density (may not be reversible). • “Plan B” - the morning after pill- contains progestin which may prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus. 95% effective if taken within the first 24 hours, 85% effective if taken within 24-48 hours, 58% effective if taken within 49-72 hours.

23. Sexual Myth Game • You can't get pregnant your first time. True or False

24. False • You CAN get pregnant your first time. In fact, many girls do get pregnant their first time.

25. 4 2. You can't get pregnant during your period. True or False

26. False • Although it is less likely, it is possible.

27. 3. I'm in a committed relationship and I have never cheated on my partner, therefore I can never get an STI. True or False

28. False • Many people don't show any signs of STI's like Chlamydia or Gonnorrhea, so you and/or your partner may already have one. As well, the HIV virus can be spread through intravenous drug use, injections with infected needles, surgery, tattooing, and even shaving.

29. 4. If we didn't have intercourse, we didn't have sex. True or False

30. False • We've all been programmed to believe that sex isn't sex unless you go all the way. However, there are many ways to receive and give pleasure. Intercourse is nice, but it is not the only form of sexual expression.

31. 5. In gay relationships, one person always takes the role of the woman, while the other partner plays the man True or False

32. False • Gay relationships are as diverse as straight relationships. Individuals are who they are

33. 6. All gay men are feminine. True or False

34. False • Well, some gay men are feminine, just as some straight men are. People are feminine because of who they are, not because of their sexuality.

35. 7. Bisexuals just can't make up their minds. They'd rather sit on the fence than face the facts and come out. True or False

36. False • Most bisexuals have made up their minds; they are sexually and emotionally attracted to both men and women.

37. 8. AIDS is a gay disease. True or False

38. False • HIV is transmitted with the exchange of bodily fluids through any one of a number of ways regardless of sexuality or gender.

39. 9. Having a male withdraw his penis from a female's vagina before he ejaculates is a good way to prevent pregnancy. True or False

40. False • Withdrawl is not an effective way to prevent pregnancy. Even before he ejaculates, the penis can leak semen that may contain thousands of sperm.

41. 10.There is an absolutely "safe" period for sex during which having sex cannot cause pregnancy. True or False

42. True/False • Women can find out when they are fertile by monitoring their menstrual cycle. Taking basal body temperature, checking cervical mucus, and charting can let women know when they are fertile or not. This method takes some practice and commitment, and requires that the woman and her partner are willing to be abstinent for a certain time during her cycle or willing to use another form of birth control. • It is not 100% affective