3. AT THE END OF THE PERIOD, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO…:
– distinguish between facts and misinformation
regarding important concepts about sexuality: sex,
gender, sexual orientation and STDs
– identify the different health problems associated
with sexuality- sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)
– assess health attitudes that may influence their
human sexuality practices leading to sexual health
problems
– compose personal guidelines to protect your heath
and maintain a healthy sense of sexuality
4. 7 questions we need to answer at
the end of the session (Size 1):
1. What is sexuality about?
2. What is the difference between sex and gender?
3. What is sexual orientation? What are the 4
types?
4. Why are there homosexuals?
5. What is a healthy relationship?
6. What are the different types of STDs?
7. What is the single most effective method to avoid
getting any type of STD?
5. • We are all sexual BEINGS. Our
sexuality affects who we are and how
we express ourselves as sexual
beings.
• LET’S TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THE
MEANING OF SEXUALITY…….
6. SEXUALITY IS ALL ABOUT…
• Your body
• Your sex
• Your gender
• Sexual Activity
• Your sexual orientation
• Your sexual drives
• Your values, attitudes, beliefs, and
ideals about life, love
• Healthy relationships
7.
8. KEY TERMS TO REMEMBER
• SEX- body, biological, traits,
characteristics
• GENDER- roles, society, expectations,
equality, bias
• SEXUAL UNFOLDING- sexual
awareness, understanding, hormonal
changes
• SEXUAL DRIVES – fantasies, desires
• SEXUAL ORIENTATION- person’s
romantic, emotional or sexual attraction to
11. HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS
• RELATIONSHIPS THAT SET BOUNDARIES
• Lines or limitations between you and the world
around you.
• In relationships, boundaries are emotional, physical,
and mental rules of respect that you set between
yourself and someone else.
• Boundaries are guidelines that ensure your wellness,
comfort, and safety with another person
• Boundaries may be flexible and change over time, as
the relationships in your life develop and grow.
12. SEXUAL ORIENTATION
• An enduring pattern of attraction—
emotional, romantic, sexual, or
some combination of these—to the
opposite sex, the same sex, or
both sexes
• Heterosexual, Homosexual,
Bisexual, Asexual
13. • Heterosexual- romantic or sexual attraction or
behavior between persons of opposite sex
• Homosexual-romantic or sexual attraction or
behavior between members of the same sex or
gender
• Bisexual-romantic or sexual attraction or
sexual behavior toward males and females
• Asexual -the lack of romantic or sexual
attraction to others
14.
15.
16. WHAT CAUSES IT?
• NATURE VERSUS NURTURE
• GENES VERSUS THE ENVIRONMENT
• Troubled family dynamics?
• Faulty psychological development?
• Biological causes such as genetic defects?
• Childhood sexual abuse?
• Hormonal imbalance?
• No one knows what causes
heterosexuality, homosexuality, or
bisexuality.
18. Also known as Sexually
Transmitted Infections (STIs)
Spread of an infection from
person to person mainly
through sexual activity
19. STDs are more than just an embarrassment.
They're a serious health problem. If untreated,
some STDs can cause permanent damage,
such as infertility (the inability to have a baby)
and even death (in the case of HIV/AIDS).
20. Breaking news
• Davao City was earlier reported by
health authorities to have the second
highest increase in cases of HIV-Aids
cases in the country during the last five
years
• The National Aids Registry of the
National Epidemiology Center (NEC), a
unit under the Department of Health,
has a consolidated data of 124 cases of
HIV in Southern Mindanao alone.
21. • Of the said number, 40 of them
were homosexuals, 28 were
bisexuals and 26 were
heterosexuals
• Recently, the City was shaken
by a report about a supposed
12-year old girl who tested
positive of HIV.
22.
23. HIV VERSUS
AIDS
• Human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV) is the virus which
causes Acquired Immune
Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS )
24. HIV VERSUS AIDS
Human
Immunodeficiency
Virus (HIV)
• The PATHOGEN-
specifically, a VIRUS
that causes AIDS
• simian
immunodeficiency
virus (SIV) from the
apes, chimpanzees
and monkeys in
Congo, Africa (1959-
1960)
Acquired Immuno
Deficiency
Syndrome (AIDS)
• The disease; the
END RESULT of HIV
• Late/ Final Stage of
HIV
25. SIV was transferred
to humans as a result
of chimps being killed
and eaten or their
blood getting into
cuts or wounds on
the hunter. Normally
the hunter's body
would have fought off
SIV, but on a few
occasions it adapted
itself within its new
human host and
became HIV
26.
27. How HIV Works• HIV ->bloodstream->white blood cells (T4
cells)
• Virus slowly destroys T4 cells
• Forces T4 cells to make copies of HIV
• Eventually the cell dies
• Moves on to other T4 cells
• Can be up to 10 years before person
shows signs; by that time the virus has
already overwhelmed the immune system
28.
29. HOW HIV SPREADS
SPREADS BY:
1. Bodily Fluids
– Blood
– Semen
– Vaginal secretions
– Breast milk
2. Sexual Contact
3. Blood to Blood Contact
• Sharing of Needles
• Tattoos/ Piercing
• Needle Stick Injury
DOES NOT SPREAD BY:
• Saliva
• Tears
• Sweat
• Feces
• Urine
• Casual contact – dry
mouth kissing, hugging,
being sneezed on or
coughed on.
• Mosquito bites
30.
31.
32. Signs and symptoms HIV and
AIDS
• There are no true signs of
having HIV.
• One may experience flu – like
symptoms of chills, fever, night
sweats, rashes, etc.
• Some will have no signs or
symptoms.
38. DISEASE INFECTIOUS
AGENT
OBSERVABLE
SYMPTOMS
CHLAMYDIA Chlamydia trachomatis
BACTERIA
USUALLY NO SYMPTOMS;
BURNING SENSATION
DURING URINATION
GONORRHEA Neisseria gonorrhoeae
BACTERIA
SWOLLEN LYMPH NODES
IN THE GROIN AREA
HEPATITIS B HEPATITIS B VIRUS (HBV) YELLOWING OF SKIN
(JAUNDICE)
GENITAL WARTS HUMAN
PAPILLOMAVIRUS (HPV)
PAINLESS WARTS IN THE
GENITAL AREA
GENITAL HERPES HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS
TYPE 2 (HSV-2)
PAINFUL, ITCHY BLISTERS
IN THE GENITAL AREA
39.
40. QUESTION
• WHAT IS THE SINGLE MOST
SUCCESSFUL METHOD TO PREVENT
OR AVOID HAVING SEXUALLY
TRANSMITTED DISEASES? THIS IS
100% EFFECTIVE AND IS
UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED:
___________________________
42. OTHER WAYS
• Have Safe Sex - Practice
Monogamy – (when two people
have intercourse with only each
other for their entire lives). In the
context of marriage.
• Don’t use dirty needles
• Get tested
45. REFLECTION• Abstinence means
refraining from any
sexual activity until IT
IS THE RIGHT TIME.
For you, WHEN IS THE
RIGHT TIME?
EXPLAIN.
• HOW DO I DEAL WITH
SEXUAL FEELINGS OR
URGES AS A
TEENAGER?
46. 2 questions to reflect
and bring home….
• WHAT IS A HEALTHY
SEXUALITY FOR ME?
• HOW DOES MY SEXUALITY
AFFECT WHO I AM AS A
PERSON?
47. POST TEST- MODIFIED TRUE OR
FALSE
1. A PERSON WITH STD MAY HAVE NO
SYMPTOMS.
2. HIV IS PASSED FROM ONE PERSON TO
ANOTHER THROUGH KISSING
3. THE ONLY SURE WAY TO PREVENT AN STD IS TO
PRACTICE GOOD HYGIENE
4. A PERSON WHO CONTRACTS HIV MAY BECOME
SICK QUICKLY OR CAN LIVE SYMPTOM FREE FOR
SEVERAL YEARS
48. • 5. HIV AND AIDS ARE THE SAME.
• 6. EVERYONE WITH AIDS ARE INFECTED WITH
HIV BUT PEOPLE INFECTED WITH HIV DO NOT
NECESSARILY HAVE AIDS.
• 7-10: MATCH THE PHOTOS WITH THE STD
