1. Feeling Risky? Sexual Responsibility
Are you taking sexual risks? Do you have your facts straight? Improve your sexual health knowledge. Learn the signs and symptoms of Sexually Transmitted Infections and discuss responsible behaviors

2. Do certain songs make you feel like dancing?

3. Do certain smells attract you to someone?

4. Do you think you want to
sexually react
to those stimulants?

5. Think AGAIN!

6. You WILL run risks… Sexual violence Unplanned pregnancy
Sexually transmitted infections

7. Sexual Violence Sexual harassment unwanted attention/contact
Sexual assault
unwanted sexual contact
Acquaintance rape
unwanted sexual intercourse
Stranger rape

8. Unplanned Pregnancy Results in life-altering choices: Having a baby
Putting your baby up for adoption
Choosing abortion

9. Are you prepared financially, emotionally, mentally for any of those choices?

10. STIs
Spread through sexual contact with penis, vagina/vulva, anus, mouth, and throat
Infection is either bacterial or viral

11. Bacterial STIs
Gonorrhea
Chlamydia
Syphilis
CURABLE

12. Gonorrhea Symptoms may show up 2-21 days
Discharge or white drip, bleeding, burning during urination
No treatment, could lead to damage of reproductive organs, cause heart trouble, skin disease
Gonorrhea is caused by a bacterium that can grow and multiply easily in the warm, moist areas of the reproductive tract, including the cervix (opening to the womb), uterus (womb), and fallopian tubes (egg canals) in women, and in the urethra (urine canal) in women and men.

13. Gonorrhea

14. Chlamydia Shows up in 7-28 days Most commonly reported STI
Discharge or white drip, bleeding, burning during urination
No treatment, could lead to damage of reproductive organs, cause heart trouble, skin disease
Even though symptoms of chlamydia are usually mild or absent, serious complications that cause irreversible damage, including infertility, can occur “silently” before a woman ever recognizes a problem.

15. Chlamydia

16. Syphilis First stage occurs within 10-90 days and results in sores
Second stage results in rash
Untreated could lead to heart disease, brain damage, and blindness
It has often been called “the great imitator” because so many of the signs and symptoms are indistinguishable from those of other diseases.

17. Syphilis

18. Viral STIs NO CURE Human Papillomavirus Virus (HPV)
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
Herpes
NO CURE

19. Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
Genital warts may occur within 3 weeks to 3 months
Most common STI among college students
Can be temporarily removed by topical creams and acid treatment or disappear
Genital warts can have very different appearances

20. Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
The warts can be removed, but the virus will remain in the body.
It is very common for the warts to reappear after removal.
This disease is spread by contact with the wart, but often the warts can not be seen.
Using a condom will not prevent transmission of the virus, if it does not completely cover the warts.

21. Human Papillomavirus (HPV)

22. Genital Herpes Symptoms may occur within 2-20 days
Most individuals have no or only minimal signs or symptoms.
Appear as one or more blisters on or around the genitals.
Blisters break, leaving tender ulcers. Ointment relieves pains and heals sores
Another outbreak can appear weeks or months after the first.

23. Genital Herpes

24. Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Symptoms may occur shortly after being infected
HIV is the first stage of AIDS
Weakens the immune system
Treatment & medication cocktails can help people manage disease & maintain normal life activities

25. Human Immunodeficiency Virus

26. Infestations
Pubic Lice (crabs)
Scabies
CURABLE

27. Pubic Lice
PUBIC LICE
Pubic lice (crab louse) infests areas of the body where hair grows, especially the groin.
Most common in adolescents and young adults.
It has been of epidemic proportions across all age and socio-economic class groups since the 1960s.

28. Pubic Lice
PUBIC LICE

29. SCABIES Scabies Scabies is a contagious, itchy skin condition.
It is caused by very small, wingless insects or mites called the Human Itch mite or Scabies itch mite that are just visible to the eye.

30. SCABIES
Scabies

31. Safe Game Plan Know your sexual intentions and limits
Communicate limits with your partner
Make responsible choices if using alcohol
Avoid drugs
Protect yourself by choosing abstinence or another contraception option

32. Safe Sex Abstinence Touching/Kissing Some risk – oral sex
Use a condom or dental damn
High Risk Vaginal & anal sex
Use a latex condom & use a water based lubricant
No exchange of bodily fluids
Vaginal, cum or pre-cum, blood

33. Office of Alcohol, Other Drug, & Health Education Creese Student Center