Sexual Health

              We are all in college but some people still do not know the difference between sex and gender and use them interchangeably; the only issue with this is the difference is important. Today, people are expressing gender and sex differently than ever before. There are over fifty different sex and gender terms people use to identify themselves in relation to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, plus (LGBT+) community. This is important to sexual health because how people identify will determine who they are emotionally and physically attracted to and how they approach the topic of sex.             “Sex” has more than one meaning: it could mean sexual activity or the reproductive organs that we have. There are physically only two sexes a person could have, male or female, but how a person feels about their sex and how they chose to express that can be wil...

            We have all heard the spiel about how we need to only have safe sex and the best way to do that is use condoms but protecting against pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases is not the only thing we need to be aware of. The World Health Organization (2018) says, “sexual health is a state of physical, mental and social well-being in relation to sexuality”. This means we need mentally prepare as well as feel emotionally and physically ready as “it requires a positive and respectful approach to sexual relationships” (WHO, 2018). It is almost impossible to have sex without the deep connection and feelings of a bond to another person; that is why when we hear stories of people starting a ‘friend’s-with-benefits’ relationship, someone always catches feelings making the relationship difficult to continue. That is why the term “no strings attached” is used because someone wanted to have sex and make it clear that neither of them should see it a...

Hello Classmates! My name is Morgan and my topic is Sexual Health. I choose this topic because I am currently enrolled in Human Sexuality and I am learning about things that I had no prior knowledge of. Most of us, if not all of us, have been through sex education in middle school but the information we are given is limited and overly structured. We learn about contraceptives and sexually transmitted infections but there is so much more to our sexual health. We should also be informed about the emotional effects of sex and we should be embracing sex positivty. I am looking forward to this project and learning from each other Lets have a lot of fun with this, Morgan