Sexual Education

1. Sexual Education Grade Nine Girls

2. Guidelines for Sex Ed. • Arrive on time to class • Respect your fellow classmates and the teacher • Refrain from inappropriate language, remarks and teasing • What is said in class should stay in class • DO NOT ask personal questions of anyone including the teacher • You will be taught from the Roman Catholic Churches prospective, please respect these views Failure to comply with these guidelines can result in your removal from the classroom for the duration of the unit.

3. Code of Conduct • Sexual Education or Human Sexuality is a very serious topic which should be dealt with as such. It is your responsibility as a student to exhibit appropriate behaviour.

4. Sexual Education Unit • Day One • Values, sex and the media, puberty and changes you may have gone through or will be going through soon

5. What does this mean to you?

6. How to Know your Values! • It is something that is important to you • You feel good about this being important to you • You feel good that people know it is important to you • You would stand up for this view even if others made fun of you for it • This fits in with your vision of who you are

7. Bell Ringer Take out a blank piece of paper Write down all the things that may influence your value system Share with your neighbour Share with the class So what influences your values?

8. Sex in the Media What do you think? • It seems sexually charged music, magazines, TV and movies encourages youngsters into sex at an earlier age, possibly by suggesting that everyone else is doing it. • This study looked at teens exposure to movies, TV shows, music and magazines, which were all analyzed for their sexual content. • They found that teens in the study who had a high sexual media diet when they were 12 to 14 years old were more than twice as likely as those with less exposure to sex in the media to have had sexual intercourse two years later.

9. Psychologists said their findings presented a worrying picture of how popular music affected the attitudes of boys and girls to sex. Rap music and hip hop, with their particular emphasis on sex and demeaning depictions of women, were blamed for encouraging early sexual behaviour, leading to the spread of disease and underage pregnancies “Media is a powerful sex educator, but not always in the best interest of children”

10. SLOGAN STUMPERS • For each of the slogans listed below, indicate the company/product it is used to promote. • JUST DO IT • MELTS IN YOUR MOUTH, NOT IN YOUR HAND • OBEY YOUR THIRST • WE LOVE TO SEE YOU SMILE • HAVE IT YOUR WAY • I’M LOVIN’ IT • THINK DIFFERENT

12. Glow by JLO "The media create this wonderful illusion-but the amount of airbrushing that goes into those beauty magazines, the hours of hair and makeup! It's impossible to live up to, because it's not real." -- Actress Jennifer Aniston for Vanity Fair, May 2001 Not even models and celebrities are as “perfect” as they appear in ads and magazines. What is real and what is reel

13. LETS LOOK AT SOME INFLUENCES! • Music • Magazines • TV • Movies • Peers • Parents

14. Name that missing lyric • “Hey I just met you, And this is crazy. But here’s my number, so ______ ___ _____” • Can you blow my whistle baby, whistle babyLet me knowGirl I'm gonna show you how to do itAnd ___ ________ _____ _______You just put your lips together_____ _____ _______ _____ ________Can you blow my whistle baby, whistle babyHere we go

16. I felt as if I was rushed into it - but I was in love. Yet I felt guilty.Cammy, 17 I felt cheap because I thought about what I did and I realized I wasn't ready for it.Carla, 16 You get bored. It's like a kid with a toy. When he first gets it, he spends all day with it. Then after he breaks it in, it's not fun anymore, so he finds another toy.Reggie, 16 I stopped seeing her because after that, she thought she owned me, and I couldn't endure it.Lyron, 18 Shesaid / He said

17. Stereotypes • Where do we learn gender roles? • What people teach us stereotypes? • Where do women learn messages? • What other people influence our learning of gender roles? • Where else in society do we find messages?

18. The word “SEX” and what it means to you! So why all the hype? Where does it all start?

19. What is Puberty? • Puberty is the time at which a growing boy or girl begins the process of sexual maturation. • Puberty involves a series of physical stages or steps that lead to the achievement of fertility and the development of the so-called secondary sex characteristics. • While puberty involves a series of biological, or physical, changes, the process can also have an effect on the social and emotional development of teens. Basically, you start thinking about SEX

20. When does puberty start? • The onset of puberty varies among individuals. • Puberty usually occurs • Girls between the ages of 10 and 14 • Boys between the ages of 12 and 16.

21. 5 Stages of Puberty in Girls • STAGE 1 Age Range: Usually 8-11In Stage 1 there are no outside signs of development, but a girl's ovaries are enlarging and hormone production is beginning. • STAGE 2 Age Range: Usually 8-14. Average: 11-12 The first sign is typically the beginning of breast growth, including "breast buds." A girl may also grow considerable height and weight. The first signs of pubic hair start out fine and straight, rather than curly. • STAGES 3 Age Range: Usually 9-15. Average: 12-13Breast growth continues, and pubic hair coarsens and becomes darker, but there still isn't a lot of it. Your body is still growing, and your vagina is enlarging and may begin to produce a clear or whitish discharge, which is a normal self-cleansing process. Some girls get their first menstrual periods late in this stage. • STAGE 4 Age Range: Usually 10-16. Average: 13-14Pubic hair growth takes on the triangular shape of adulthood, but doesn't quite cover the entire area. Underarm hair is likely to appear in this stage, as is menarche (onset of first period). Ovulation (release of egg cells) begins in some girls, but typically not in a regular monthly routine until Stage 5. • STAGE 5 Age Range: Usually 12-19. Average: 15This is the final stage of development, when a girl is physically an adult. Breast and pubic hair growth are complete, and your full height is usually attained by this point. Menstrual periods are well established, and ovulation occurs monthly.

22. 5 Stages of Puberty in Boys • STAGE 1 Normal Age Range: 9-12, Average: about 10 Male hormones are becoming active, but there are hardly, if any, outside signs of development. Testicles are maturing, and some boys start a period of rapid growth late in this stage. • STAGE 2Normal Age Range: 9-15, Average: 12-13 Testicles and scrotum begin to enlarge, but penis size doesn't increase much. Very little, if any, pubic hair at the base of the penis. Increase in height and change in body shape.  • STAGE 3 Normal Age Range: 11-16, Average: 13-14 Penis starts to grow in length, but not much in width. Testicles and scrotum still growing. Pubic hair starts to get darker and coarser and is spreading towards the legs. Height growth continues and body/face shape look more adult. Voice begins to deepen (and crack). Some hair around the anus grows.   • STAGE 4 Normal Age Range: 11-17, Average: 14-15Penis width increases, as well as length. Testicles and scrotum still growing. Pubic hair begins to take adult texture, although covers a smaller area. Most boys have first ejaculations. Underarm hair develops. Facial hair increases on chin and upper lip. Voice gets deeper and skin gets more oily.  • STAGE 5 Normal Age Range: 14-18, Average: around 16 Nearing full adult height and physique. Pubic hair and genitals have adult appearance. Facial hair grows more completely and shaving may begin now or soon. During the late teens and early twenties, some men grow a bit more and develop more body hair, especially chest hair.

23. Please take out a blank sheet of paper and write down as many terms as you can remember that you think have to do with puberty! Vocabulary Challenge

24. AREOLA: dark area around the nipple of the breast. ANUS: the opening through which bowel movements (feces) leave our bodies. BREAST: either of two milk-secreting glands at the upper front part of a woman's body. CERVIX: neck-like, narrow end of uterus which opens into the vagina; it stretches to allow a baby to be born. CIRCUMCISION: an elective surgical operation that removes the foreskin from the penis; if done, it usually occurs when a boy is only a few days old. CLITORIS: sensitive female genital organ located in front of urethra and vagina. EJACULATION: release of semen from the penis during intercourse or sleep. ENDOCRINE SYSTEM: a system of the body that works with the nervous system to regulate certain activities of the body. ERECTION: the spongy tissue of the penis fills with blood causing the penis to become larger and firmer. Same happens to clitoris in females. FALLOPIAN TUBES: Two tubes through which eggs travel on their way to the uterus after being released from the ovaries. HORMONE: chemicals (produced by glands) that control the growth and activity of the body. LABIA: folds of skin that cover the vaginal/urethral openings. MENSTRUATION (PERIOD): the process of shedding the lining of the uterus. OVARIES: two small organs on either side of the uterus where the eggs (ova) are produced and stored and where female hormones are produced. OVULATION: release of a mature egg from the ovary; usually occurs monthly midway between menstrual period. PENIS: male sex organ; also the male urinary organ. PITUITARY GLAND: a gland in the brain that triggers the beginning of puberty. PUBERTY: the period of transition from childhood to adulthood. SCROTUM: the sack of skin that holds the testicles, just underneath the penis. SEMEN: fluid containing sperm that is ejaculated from the penis. SPERM: male reproductive cells produced by the testes. TESTES/TESTICLES: the two oval shaped organs contained in the scrotum which produce sperm and male hormones. URETHRA: the duct through which urine is discharged and in males, through which semen is discharged. UTERUS: pear-shaped female reproductive organ in which baby grows and develops until birth. VAGINA: passage that leads from uterus to external genital organs (vulva) VAS DEFERENS: tube that allows sperm to pass from the testicle. VULVA: female external genital organs, including labia and clitoris. NOCTURNAL EMISSION (WET DREAM): the release of semen from the penis during sleep.