1. Bell Ringer Open your student workbook to page 79.
Under the heading Journal Entry, write a few short sentences describing at least one sexual limit a person could set and explain how this limit will help protect the person’s sexual health.

2. Unit 3: Abstinence, Personal & Sexual Health
Lesson 14: Resisting Sexual Pressure

3. Healthy Behavior Outcomes
Be sexually abstinent.
Avoid pressuring others to engage in sexual behaviors.
Support others to avoid or reduce sexual risk behaviors.

4. Lesson Objectives By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
Summarize why individuals have the right to refuse sexual contact.
Demonstrate effective communication skills for setting sexual limits and resisting sexual pressure.

5. What are 2 examples of a pressure line someone might say to try to push a person’s limits or get them to have sex?
Why would it be difficult to resist this pressure line?

6. Summary
Pressure around sexual activity can be hard to resist, especially if the person is someone you like or feel very attracted to, or if the person knows how to persuade you.
Best way to protect yourself is to learn ways to SAY NO that will be effective or work well every time.

7. Why does a person always have the right to choose not to have sex or refuse to participate in sexual behavior?

8. Summary Sexual activity should always be a matter of choice.
Every person has the right to choose sexual abstinence and to SAY NO.
This is true for people who have never had sex and for people who have had sex before.
Nobody has the right to pressure or force someone else to have sex.

10. Clear NO Statements No, I don’t want to do that.
I could get pregnant. So, NO, I’m not going to risk it.
No, my limit is kissing. I’m not going to have sex with you.
I said NO already, and I mean it.

11. Alternative Actions
No, I don’t want to do that. Let’s go see a movie instead.
I’d much rather go get something to eat. What’s your favorite restaurant?
I want to talk to you instead. Tell me what you want to do this weekend.

12. Delay Tactics I’m not prepared to think about that right now.
I don’t feel well, so I’m going to go home.
I need to get some fresh air. I’m going outside.
You’re joking, right?

13. Which of the refusal skills you learned today do you think would be easiest for you to use and why?