This presentation is targeted towards young people. Helping them make informed choices about sex and relationships.

1. Sex and Relationships
Your strongest sexual tool is your Mind
Dr Funke Baffour

2. Ground Rules
Respect other people’s views
Be sensible during discussions
Be mature in your thinking about this topic
Feel free to ask questions
Try not to feel uncomfortable about the topic

3. Outline
• What is Sex?
• Definition of Sexual Health
• Unsafe Sex
– Teenage pregnancy
– STD’s
• Relationships
– Unhealthy Relationships
– Healthy Relationships

4. What is Sex?

5. What is Sex?
o According to Planned Parenthood Sex can be any
of the following:
 Vaginal sex (penis-in-vagina intercourse)
 Oral sex (mouth-to-genital contact)
 Anal sex (penis-in-anus intercourse)
 Dry humping or genital rubbing
 Fingering or hand jobs (hand-to-genital contact)
 Masturbation
Now, let’s look at what it means to be sexually
healthy!

7. Unsafe Sex
 50% of the 19 million
new STDs per year
occur in young
people ages 15 - 24.
 Adolescents who
have sex early are
less likely to use
contraception,
putting them at
greater risk of
pregnancy and STDs.

8. Unsafe Sex

9. Teens have unprotected sex for several
reasons:
•Believe that pregnancy and STDs only
happen to other people.
•One or both teens use drugs or alcohol
before sex.
•They don't know the risks of unprotected
teen sex.
•They don't know where to get condoms, or
think they are too expensive.
• Feel pressured by their partner to have
unprotected sex.

10. Teenage pregnancy
• About 16 million women
15–19 years old give birth
each year
• The proportion of births
that take place during
adolescence is about 2%
in China, 18% in Latin
America and the
Caribbean and more than
50% in sub-Saharan
Africa.

11. STD’s are on the RISE
• 1 in 4 teens contracts an STD/STI every
year.
• 4 in 10 sexually active teen girls have had
an STD that can cause infertility and even
death
• Males make up more than two-thirds of
HIV diagnoses among 13- to 19-year-olds

12. HIV FACTS
You can become infected with HIV in several ways,
including:
• By having sex
• From blood transfusions
• By sharing needles
• During pregnancy or delivery or through breast-feeding.
• Not infected through ordinary contact —
hugging, kissing, dancing or shaking hands

13. Sexual Bullying
The formal definition of ‘Sexual bullying’ is:
“Any bullying behaviour, whether physical or
non-physical, that is based on a person’s
sexuality or gender. It is when sexuality or
gender is used as a weapon by boys or girls
towards other boys or girls – although it is
more commonly directed at girls. It can be
carried out to a person’s face, behind their
back or through the use of technology”.
(NSPCC, adapted from the definition provided by WOMANKIND
Worldwide)

14. Sexual Bullying
• Girls experience sexual
harassment and bullying
more than boys.
• Have been sexually
harassed
• Have reported poor
body image, loss of self
esteem, anger, isolation,
mistrust of the opposite
sex.
• Feeling uncomfortable
when talking about sex.

15. Sexual Bullying
• Most often subject to
sexual verbal abuse and
being called obscene
names.
• Males who have been
sexually harassed - report
difficulties in:
– talking,
– feeling emotionally hurt,
– feeling uncomfortable
– experiencing anger and
self-hate.

16. Sexual Bullying -Sexting
• Sexting is the act of sending sexually explicit
messages or photos electronically, primarily
between mobile phones and/or the internet.
• Sexting is an extension of cyberbullying when
someone (or a group of people) deliberately
attempts to hurt, upset, threaten or humiliate
someone else.

17. The Risks
• Bullying / harassment
• Lack of control of images
• Your ‘digital footprint’
• Future career / job issues
• Where the images might end up…
• The legal implications
How to be SAFE
• Don’t take such photos - or allow them to be
taken.
• Resist pressure to be photographed

19. Relationships

20. Reflect on the following
Think about an important relationship in your lives
Do you agree/disagree with the following statements
1. I am incomplete without my partner.
2. I can freely express what I think and feel to my friend
or partner.
3. I can change the things I don’t like about my
friend/partner.
4. Our relationship will never change.
5. I am willing to do anything for my friend/partner.
6. I have other important relationships in my life.

21. Relationships
• Two important key factors that underpin a
healthy relationship are:
1. Communication & Sharing: being able to talk
and listen to one another
2. Respect and Trust: Learn to respect and trust
one another.
Without these then run the risk of an
Unhealthy Relationship!

22. 7 Signs of an Unhealthy Relationship
1. Attempts to Control
2. You feel worse about yourself, not better
3. It’s All about Sex
4. You Take Each Other for Granted
5. Constant Insults
6. You Love Being in Love
7. Omissions of Truth

23. Domestic Violence

24. Rape

25. Co-dependent Relationships

26. 7 Keys to a Healthy and Happy
Relationship
1. Mutual Respect
2. Arguing, not fighting
3. Agreement on Sex
4. Agreement on Parenting
5. Equality (Money)
6. Common goals and values

27. Healthy Relationships

28. The End
Thank you