sexual_wellbeing_lecture note overview1.ppt

sexual_wellbeing_lecture

1. Sexual Wellbeing: An Overview

2. Sex is an important part of life
It’s a way for people to:
•Feel pleasure
•Express love for their
partners
•Become pregnant with
children

3. Sometimes, sex leads to
serious problems
•Unwanted
pregnancy
•Diseases and
infections, such as
STIs
•Emotional problems

4. Men and Women have the right to
be happy sexually and to protect
their sexual health!

5. Sexual Health Means:
Deciding if and when to have children

6. Preventing diseases, including HIV/AIDs
Sexual Health Means:

7. Having a healthy body
Sexual Health Means:

8. Choosing with whom and when to have
sex and being free from violence
Sexual Health Means:

9. Family Planning Means:
Having the number of children you want,
when you want them.
Both men and women must take part in
family planning

10. Family Planning Is Important!
Pregnancy is risky!
Mothers and babies will be
healthier because fewer
pregnancies means less
risks
Fewer children
means more food
for each child

11. Family Planning Is Important!
Fewer children can
mean more time for
parents to spend with
their children
Waiting to have
children can give
women and men time
to finish their
education

12. It’s A Right!
•A person has the right to decide how many
children they want to have
•A woman has the right to protect her health from
the risks of pregnancy

13. There are several methods of
family planning
1.Barrier Methods
2.Hormonal Methods
3.IUDs (Intrauterine Devices)
4.Natural Methods
5.Permanent Methods
All of these methods (EXCEPT FOR PERMANENT
METHODS)can be stopped at ANY time if a woman
decides to get pregnant or if she decides to try a different
method of family planning
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14. Barrier methods work by
physically preventing the man’s
sperm from joining with the
woman’s egg
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15. Condoms
•An example of a barrier method
•Can be bought at the store or at a
clinic or an gotten at an agency for
free
•The ONLY method of family planning
that also protects against diseases
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16. Hormones and Hormonal Methods
•Hormones are chemicals in the body.
•Men and women have different hormones.
•It is hormones that make men grow mustaches
and women grow breasts.
•Hormones also determine when a woman can
get pregnant (when she is “fertile”) by getting her
body ready for pregnancy.
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17. Hormonal Methods
When a woman uses a
hormonal method of family
planning, she puts hormones in
her body that prevent her from
getting pregnant by:
1.Preventing her body from
releasing an egg
2.Making it harder for the
sperm to reach the egg
3.Keeping the egg from
sticking inside the womb
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18. A woman needs to see a doctor
to get a hormonal method!
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19. Hormonal Methods
The Pill
Woman takes one pill
every day at the same
time
The Patch
Woman wears on her skin
and changes once a
week
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20. Hormonal Methods
Implants
Inserted into the woman’s
arm by a doctor
Work for up to 3 years
The Shot
Woman gets a shot
every 3 months
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21. Intrauterine Device: IUD
•Put into the womb by a doctor
•Can last for 5 or 10 years
•Can be removed when the woman decides she
wants to get pregnant or at any other time
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22. Natural Methods
Natural methods help a woman know when
she is fertile, so that she can avoid having
sex at that time.
•A woman is usually fertile
during the middle days of her
monthly bleeding cycle
•A woman is usually NOT fertile
when she is breastfeeding for
the first 6 months after her baby
is born
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23. Permanent Methods
A doctor makes it impossible for men and women
to have any more children
The operation for a
man is called a
VASECTOMY
The operation for a woman
is called a TUBAL
LIGATION
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24. Preventing Sexually
Transmitted Infections
(STIs)

25. What is an STI?
•An STI is a sexually
transmitted infection
•STIs are caused by
germs that are
passed through
sexual contact
•The only way to
protect against STIs
is by using condoms
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26. Many people have STIs and
don’t know it!!
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27. If They Are Not Treated,
STIs Can Cause Serious Problems
•Pain and discomfort
•Men and women
might not be able to
have children
(infertility)
•Babies can be born
too early, sick, or
dead
•A person can even
die
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28. How STIs Are Spread
The germs that cause some STIs are on the
SKINand are passed by touching during sex
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29. How STIs are Spread
The germs that cause other STIs live in the
LIQUIDSof the body and are passed during sex
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30. How STIs are Spread
The germs that cause STIs can be passed
from a pregnant woman to her baby
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31. Condoms are the only way to
protect against STIs!
It is very important to use condoms
every timesomeone has sex.
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32. A person may have an STI if he or
she has one or more of these signs:
• an unusual or bad-smelling
vaginal discharge
•itching or painful genitals
•sores or blisters on the
genitals
•pain in the stomach
•pain during sex
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33. Sometimes STIs do not have
any signs at all!
A person can feel healthy, but actually may
have an STI
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34. The ONLY way to know whether a
person has an STI is to get tested by a
doctor
A doctor will test the person’s blood or
urine to see if they are infected.

35. If a person hasan STI it is very
important to take all the medicine the
doctor says
Even if he or she does not
feel sick anymore, a
person will not be cured
until all of the medicine
has time to work
For some STIs, a
person has to take
medicine for the rest
of his or her life
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36. Men and women should talk about
STIs and family planning
•Women have the right to protect
their health from the risks of
unplanned pregnancy
•A man is responsible for
protecting the health of his family
from the risks of unplanned
pregnancy
•Both men and women have the
right to protect themselves
against STIs by using safer sex
methods and getting tested at
the doctor!

37. Healthy Bodies: Women’s Health
Women’s bodies
are different need
special care to be
healthy.
Sometimes a
woman might feel
healthy, but actually
have problems.
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38. It’s very important for a
woman to get a check up
at the doctor once every
year.
This way the doctor will
be able to find problems
early, when they are
easier to fix.
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39. Cervical Cancer
A very serious
cancer of the
women’s
reproductive
system
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40. “Gardasil”
There is a vaccine that can help prevent
cervical cancer
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41. A woman has to get the
vaccine shot 3 times
She has to go back to the doctor 2 months
after her first shot and 4 months after the
second shot
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42. It’s very important that all women and
girls age 11-26 get this vaccine!
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43. Menopause happens when the
woman’s monthly bleeding ends
Menopause is a health concern of
older women

44. Menopause is a natural part of aging. However,
because their bodies are changing, some women
don’t feel well during menopause. Some signs are:
Feeling very hot, gaining weight feeling sad
or angry, having trouble sleeping, and
having sexual problems.

45. Most signs can be managed with
exercise and eating healthy. However, if
you feel very bad, talk to your doctor.
There are medicines that can help
manage the symptoms of menopause
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46. Calcium
As women get older their bones lose calcium and get
weaker and more breakable
Its especially important for women to eat lots of
calcium-rich food like milk, yogurt, broccoli, oranges
and leafy greens
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47. StayingActive
Regular exercise is very important for
good health and sexual wellbeing
Exercise can strengthen muscles, prevent
weight gain and make you feel happier
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48. Eating Healthy Food
Eating a balanced diet of whole grains, lots of fruit
and vegetables, and lean protein will you feel
healthier.
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49. It’s important to speak clearly to your
partner about your sexual health
concerns.
You have a right to be healthy and happy!

50. Remember, you are
responsible for your health!

51. It’s very important
to share this
information with
your friends, family,
and community
members so that
everyone can be
healthier!
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