Sex Power Point Notes: Class One

Sexuality

•Sexuality includes not only biology and science but also ______, ______, and ______aspects. Learning about Sex involves ______of these things.

Adolescence

-becoming an ______

-moving from the ______, feelings, body and relationships of a ______to that of an ______.

-girls usually begin at age ____to ____.

-boys usually begin at age ___ to ____.

-everyone ______at his/her own ______.

Puberty

-when our body changes ______and ______from that of a ______to an ______.

-reproductive ______begin to work like those of an ______.

-we start to look, ______, and ______in new and different ways.

Changes that occur

Physical / Emotional / Behavioral
-growth ______
-______growth
-boys- ______
-girls-______development, changes in shape, menstruation. / -relationships with ______and ______
-romantic relationships
-______pressure
-approval of others / -ability to think and learn about new topics
-ability to _____issues in a more sophisticated way
-forming an ______
-dating
-more responsibilities
-driving
-sense of responsibilities for one’s own ______

Visible changes that occur during Puberty…

Girls / Boys
Breast development
______and weight increase
______broaden
Armpit hair, pubic hair, hair on _____ and arms
Acne
Genitals grow larger and darker
perspiration / Adam’s apple will begin to show
Shoulders and chest broaden
Muscles become ______
Hair on ______will appear
Body hair appears
______
Testicles grow a little larger
Penis grows longer and wider
Breasts develop
Weight gain
perspiration

Hormones

-chemicals in our body that travel in the ______. Different parts of our body communicate with one another by releasing ______into the blood, telling other parts of the body to do something.

-There are different types. Ex: stress hormones, sex hormones

•Puberty starts when the brain sends messages (hormones) to the ______or the ______.

•These hormones tell the ______to begin making ______and the ______to make ______.

•These sex hormones send messages to certain parts of your body to tell them to ______

•Hormones indirectly affect the way we ______and thus how we ______. (How they do it is not well understood.)