Sexual Practices
- Sexual activity is bodily contact meant to give or derive sexual gratification
- Vaginal sex, oral sex, and anal sex are all sex and can spread many sexually transmitted infections (STI’s)
- Mutual masturbation is sexual activity and is also risky.
Sexual Exposure Chart
"When you have sex with someone, you are having sex with everyone they have had sex with for the last ten years, and everyone they and their partners have had sex with for the last ten years."
C. Everett Koop, M.D., Former U.S. Surgeon General
"Many teenagers, as well as adults, are indirectly exposed to more than one sexual partner each year because their partner has had sex with someone else."
Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1994
Selling a Lifestyle
Media pushes sex onto you. They try to sell sex as a way to get what you want and that everyone should be doing it. It’s everywhere, in our commercials, in our music, in our magazines, all over the internet. BUT the fact is not everyone is having SEX. Don’t buy into what they are selling, make you own decisions about what is right for you.
Having No Boundaries
How’s that workin’ out for ya Britney?
Have You Made A
Choice About Sex?
3 out of 4 girls wish
they had said NO to sex
- Common Emotional Effects of Sexual Activity
- Pain from broken relationships
- Fear, confusion about romantic feelings
- Altered self-esteem
- Sense of betrayal and abandonment
- Guilt, depression and emotional roller coaster
- Impaired ability to form healthy long-term relationships