1. Identifying Your Priorities
Sexual Activity
Identifying Your Priorities
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2. Understanding how our bodies work, how our bodies and feelings change as we become adults, and recognizing how society, parents, and peers influence us helps us make healthy decisions about our future goals, relationships with others, and the role that sexual activity has in our lives.
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3. With a partner, brainstorm the various influences on a person’s decisions pertaining to sexual activity.
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4. Lack of interest in sexual activity
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5. Perceived personal readiness
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6. Peer pressure or Pressure from one
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7. Desire
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8. The use of alcohol or drugs
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9. Awareness of health risks, including risk of STIs and blood-borne infections
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10. Legal concerns
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11. Awareness and acceptance of gender identity and sexual orientation
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12. Maturity level
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13. Media messages
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14. Access to information
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15. Cultural teachings
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16. Religious beliefs
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17. Personal or family values... Respect for parents’ wishes
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18. Concerns about risk of pregnancy
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19. Curiosity
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20. Self-concept
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21. What’s Your Priority? Using the factors discussed, individually select the five factors that you feel are most important when making informed choices about sexual activity (choices that will keep you safe and healthy). Share one or two of their five ideas with a partner.
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22. Important qualities for healthy relationships and factors that influence decision making pertaining to sexual activity.
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23. How do people decide when or if they want to be in a relationship?
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24. What is important in a healthy relationship?
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25. Do you need to be in a relationship to engage in sexual activity?
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26. Does being in a relationship entitle you to engage in sexual activity when you decide you are ready or whenever you like?
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27. Where can people go for support for dealing with relationship questions?
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28. http://sexualityandu.ca www.kidshelpphone.ca
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