Human sexuality for students

Human Sexuality

Michelle Uetz © • 715-505-5342 • michelleuetz@yahoo.com

Sexuality

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We Are All Sexual
• We all have the right to choose how to expres our
sexuality
• All people deserve to be treated with respect and
compassion
• Everyone deserves to be provided with reliable and
accurate information about their bodies, health, and
sexuality
• Relationships should be consensual
– Consent is when everyone involved agrees with what is
happening


Abuse
• Physical or mental abuse or violence of any
kind are NEVER acceptable in any relationship
• It is best to stop an uncomfortable situation
before it gets worse
• You need to be assertive when something
feels wrong
• Practice saying, “that makes me feel
uncomfortable”
• Practice saying “No, Stop!”

What does this picture mean?

www.adsneeze.com/social/domestic-violence-ads


Disabilities and Abuse
• Sexual predators only care about themselves
– Who are sexual predators?
• Some target people with disabilities because they
see them as more vulnerable.
• Sex offenders think that people with disabilities:
– Won’t say no
– Won’t know it’s abuse
– Won’t report it


Why are people with disabilities at
more risk of being sexually abused?

www.floridalegal.org/doah/training/index.htm


How to Protect Yourself
• Know proper names
– Law enforcement and doctors will take you more
seriously if you say penis or vagina instead of
other names
• Know how to report abuse
– Police, Nurse, Doctor, Counselor, Care worker
• Understand your personal rights
– Feel comfortable, safety, respect for yourself and
your body


Woman’s Private Parts
• Breasts
• Vulva
• Vagina

• Everyone practice
http://www.dhmc.org/webpage.cfm?site_id=2&org_id=818&morg_id=0&sec_id=0&gsec_id=42765&item_id=42767

saying Vulva and Vagina
together


Men’s Private Parts
• Penis
• Scrotum

• Everyone practice
saying penis and
scrotum together

http://www.aurorahealthcare.org/yourhealth/healthgate/getcontent.asp?URLhealthgate=11688.html


Sexual Feelings
• Once a person goes through puberty they will
begin to have sexual feelings toward others
• It’s normal to have these sexual feelings
• What’s important is how you act on them!


How to Handle Sexual Feelings
• Good Choices: • Poor Choices:
– Smile – Have sex right away
– Hold hands – Follow them everywhere
– Give a hug (ask first) – Get angry when they talk
– Sit next to them to other people
– Give a small kiss – “Hang” on the other
– Spend time talking person all the time
– Write them a letter, – Insist on being with
poem, song etc. them ALL the time


Positive Relationships
• Honesty and communication!
• If you do not feel comfortable enough to talk about
the behaviors you are going to or are doing, you are
not ready for those behaviors
• Give the other person their personal space when
needed
• Allows the other to have other types of relationships
– Jealousy
• Respect each others needs, wants and decisions


Which of the following are GOOD
Responses to Sexual Feelings?
Follow them
Smile everywhere
Be with them ALL the Hold Hands
time Write a poem
Hug them Have sex right away
Sit next to each other Hold each other ALL the
Get upset when they time
talk to other people Give them a small kiss


Dangers of Sexual Activity
• Unwanted Pregnancy
• Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
• Mental and Emotional distress
– Low self-esteem
– Guilt


Why are people sexually active?
• It creates children
• To express their love
• There is a feeling of pleasure


http://www.respectrx.com/archives/sex/sex_the_7_questions.html

When you do become sexually active
• You need to protect yourself!
– From pregnancy until it’s wanted
– From sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
– From mental and emotional distress


What Are the Risks of Being Sexually
Active?
• ___________________

• ___________________

• ___________________

www.havefunbesafe.ca/stis/


Protecting yourself from unwanted
pregnancy

• Both Man and Woman’s Job
• The man has as much responsibility for a
pregnancy as the woman
• Ways to avoid an unwanted pregnancy:
– Abstinence
– Birth Control Methods


Birth Control Options
• Used when needed: • Long-term and
– Condoms
• Male
Permanent:
• Female – Norplant
– Birthcontrol Pill “The pill” – Intrauterine Device (IUD)
– Cervical Cap
– Diaphragm – Tubal Ligation (“Tubes
– Depo-Prevera shot (“Depo”) Tied”)
– Natural Family Planning (NFP) – Vasectomy
– The Patch
– NuvaRing
– Morning After Pill

blackliberal.wordpress.com/2009/02/

Birth Control Myths
• “Pulling out”
• Woman on top
• Sex in water
• Birth control is 100% effective
– Correct use
– Antibiotics
• You can take the pill any time


Which of the following are real types
of birth control?
The pill Cervical Cap
Condom Diaphram
Female Condom Natural Family Planning
Intra Uterine Device (NFP)
(IUD) Depo Prevera Shot
Pull Out Method Norplant
Tubal Ligation The Patch
Vascetomy Nuva Ring
Morning After Pill Woman on top method


What if Birth Control Fails?
• If an unwanted pregnancy occurs:
– Have the child and raise it
• Challenges
– Have the child and put it up for adoption
• Challenges
– Have an abortion
• Challenges
• Share your personal feelings
with these options


Family Planning
• Planning for the number of children and the spacing
and timing of their births. It is achieved through use
of birth control methods.
• By using family planning you can avoid the difficult
decisions involved with an unwanted pregnancy
• What are your current family goals?
• Where can you go for family planning and birth
control services?
• ___________________
• ___________________


Which of the following is the correct
definition of Family Planning?

Planning who and when you will get married
Planning for the number of children and the
spacing and timing of their births. It is
achieved through use of birth control
methods.
Planning how to talk to your parents about
sex.
Why is family planning important?

Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
• Gonorrhea • Gential Warts
• Chlamydia • LGV (Lymphogranuloma
• AIDS/HIV venereum)
• Herpes
• Human Papiloma Virus
• Syphilis
HPV
• Trichomoniasis
• Pelvic inflammatory
Disease PID

www.havefunbesafe.ca/stis
/


Facts About STIs
• Some STIs can kill you
• HIV/AIDS; HPV by cervial cancer; Syphilis by
mental defect
• Some STIs can make you infertile (unable to
have babies or produce them)
• Some STIs don’t have noticeable symptoms
• Some STIs have treatments, some DO NOT!
• You can NEVER get rid of some STIs

More STI Facts
• Syphilis affects your brain
• You can get the same STI more than once
• You can get an STI even if you use a condom
• HPV can be prevented with a vaccine
• STIs are spread through vaginal intercourse,
oral sex and anal sex


Which of the following are dangerous
Sexually Transmitted Infections?
Influenza
Gonorrhea Gential Warts
Chlamydia LGV (Lymphogranuloma
AIDS/HIV venereum)
Otitis Media Varicella
Herpes Human Papiloma Virus
Syphilis HPV
Trichomoniasis Pelvic inflammatory
Disease PID


Which of the following are Facts and
which are Myths about STIs
You can only get an STI Some STIs can make
once you unable to have
Some STIs have little to babies (infertile)
no symptoms You can still get an STI
All STIs are curable even if you use a
The only STI you can die condom
from is HIV/AIDS The only way to get and
There is a shot you can STI is through vaginal
get to prevent one kind intercourse
of STI


Take Care of Your Body!
• Cancer can take away your reproductive
organs
• It’s important to perform self checks and
doctor’s exams
– Breast Self-Exam
– Pap Exams
– Testicular Self-Exam


Self-Breast Exam
• Lie down and place your right arm behind your head. The exam is done while lying
down, not standing up. This is because when lying down the breast tissue spreads
evenly over the chest wall and is as thin as possible, making it much easier to feel
all the breast tissue.
• Use the finger pads of the 3 middle fingers on your left hand to feel for lumps in
the right breast. Use overlapping dime-sized circular motions of the finger pads to
feel the breast tissue.
• Use 3 different levels of pressure to feel all the breast tissue. Light pressure is
needed to feel the tissue closest to the skin; medium pressure to feel a little
deeper; and firm pressure to feel the tissue closest to the chest and ribs. It is
normal to feel a firm ridge in the lower curve of each breast, but you should tell
your doctor if you feel anything else out of the ordinary. If you're not sure how
hard to press, talk with your doctor or nurse. Use each pressure level to feel the
breast tissue before moving on to the next spot.
• Move around the breast in an up and down pattern starting at an imaginary line
drawn straight down your side from the underarm and moving across the breast to
the middle of the chest bone (sternum or breastbone). Be sure to check the entire
breast area going down until you feel only ribs and up to the neck or collar bone
(clavicle).


Breast Self Exam Continued
• There is some evidence to suggest that the
up-and-down pattern (sometimes called the
vertical pattern) is the most effective pattern
for covering the entire breast, without missing
any breast tissue.
• Repeat the exam on your left breast, putting
your left arm behind your head and using the
finger pads of your right hand to do the exam.
• While standing in front of a mirror with your
hands pressing firmly down on your hips, look
at your breasts for any changes of size, shape,
contour, or dimpling, or redness or scaliness
of the nipple or breast skin. (The pressing
down on the hips position contracts the chest
wall muscles and enhances any breast
changes.)
• Examine each underarm while sitting up or
standing and with your arm only slightly
raised so you can easily feel in this area.
Raising your arm straight up tightens the
tissue in this area and makes it harder to
examine.
• All information and images from:
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_6x_how_
to_perform_a_breast_self_exam_5.asp


PAP Exams
• For Women www.asccp.com.au/Colp%20pic.jpg

• Every year at the Dr. beginning when you become
sexually active
• Looks for abnormal cervical cells that can cause
cervical cancer
• At a certain age and if you are monogamous
(only one sexual partner) you can
have the exam every other year or
up to every five years.
– Listen to your Dr.
www.cyto.qc.ca/Public/Images/Pap.jpg


Testicular Self-Exam
• If possible, stand in front of a mirror. Check for any swelling on the scrotal skin.
• Examine each testicle with both hands. Place the index and middle fingers under
the testicle with the thumbs placed on top. Roll the testicle gently between the
thumbs and fingers -- you shouldn't feel any pain when doing the exam. Don't be
alarmed if one testicle seems slightly larger than the other, that's normal.
• Find the epididymis, the soft, tubelike structure behind the testicle that collects
and carries sperm. If you are familiar with this structure, you won't mistake it for a
suspicious lump. Cancerous lumps usually are found on the sides of the testicle but
can also show up on the front. Lumps on or attached to the epididymis are not
cancerous.
• If you find a lump on your testicle or any of the other signs of testicular cancer
listed below, see a doctor, preferably a urologist, right away. The abnormality may
not be cancer, but if it is testicular cancer, it will spread if it is not stopped by
treatment. Even if it is something else like an infection, you are still going to need
to see a doctor. Waiting and hoping will not fix anything. Please note that free
floating lumps in the scrotum that are not attached in any way to a testicle are not
testicular cancer. When in doubt, get it checked out - if only for peace of mind!
Text and picture from:
http://tcrc.acor.org/tcexam.html


Why be Abstinent?
• Don’t have to worry about STIs
– Condoms don’t always keep them all out!
• Don’t have to worry about pregnancy
– Birth control does not always work!
• Religious believes www.unmarriedamerica.org/.../abstinence_only.htm

• Self Respect
• Don’t have to treat your body with chemical
hormones for birth control
• Better relationships
• What is your plan?

Alcohol, Drugs and Sex
• Alcohol is a depressant
– This means that it lowers your inhibitions (do
something you normally wouldn’t)
– This means you may not use birth control, like you
normally would
• Can make you forget
• Leads to regret and poor self-esteem

ulsu.wordpress.com/2009/02/

Which of these situations involved
alcohol? Why?
Bob and Sarah are 18. Joe and Laura are 18.
They both want to wait Laura wants to wait
to have sex until they until she’s married to
are married. After have sex. Joe has
dating for two years already had sex. After
they decide they are dating for two months
committed enough and they have sex one night.
have sex.


Who can you talk to about sexual
concerns?
• ___________________

• ___________________

• ___________________
cmsweb1.loudoun.k12.va.us/509381014111958/

• ___________________


uasasonoma.org/teensite/home_lgbtq.html

• What does LGBTQ mean?
• You are entitled to your own personal believes
regarding LGBT BUT,
• Respect all people no matter what!


For questions or resources contact
Michelle Uetz
WI Teacher License in Special
Education, Biology Education and
Health Education


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