What UR peers never told U about Sex
Office of Sexual Health and Violence Prevention
"What UR peers never told U about Sex" is an interactive presentation that engages students' decision making about their individual sexual health. Through activities that focus on communication, negotiation, and safer sex practices, students will explore how their own personal values and beliefs influence their sexual health decisions and empower them with knowledge for healthy choices. The program will shift from a more traditional sexually transmitted disease presentation to an open format designed to affirm risk reduction and the choice to abstain.
Learning Outcomes
This presentation supports University 101 learning outcomes:
II. Help Students Discover and Connect with The University of South Carolina
a) Identify appropriate campus resources and opportunities that contribute to their educational experience, goals, and campus engagement.
b) Develop and apply skills that contribute to building positive relationships with peers, staff and faculty.
III. Prepare Students for Responsible Lives in a Diverse, Interconnected, and Changing World
a) Examine how their background and experiences impact their values and assumptions and explain the influence these have on their relationships with others.
As a result of this presentation, students will:
- Be able to identify high-risk and low-risk sexual behaviors and will evaluate where their current or future behaviors fit in that spectrum.
- Be able to demonstrate strategies for STI risk reduction and pregnancy prevention and how to apply these practices to their own behaviors.
- Be able to apply communication skills between partners to ensure the use of barrier methods and contraceptives.
- Reflect upon their personal sexual behaviors and examine intrapersonal development skills (such as: values, beliefs, and personal identity) to choose healthier sexual practices for themselves.
- Be able to recall resources of where to go for services if they or their partner have concerns about their sexual health.
Program Description
This presentation is presented by staff from Sexual Health & Violence Prevention in conjunction with graduate students from the School of Public Health. The format includes class discussion and interactive large and small group activities.
Presentation topics/activities to include:
- "Knee cap to Genitalia" exercise breaks stigmas of talking frankly about sex, to help students become comfortable with talking about sexual activity and sexual anatomy.
- "Abstinence to Sex Continuum" activity helps to define sexual behaviors and identify STI risk behaviors to showcase that there are a range of sexual activities between no contact and intercourse, additionally to discuss what abstinence entails for each individual and spark a conversation about what virginity and "waiting 'til marriage" means and look like. There is no right answer to this activity.
- "10 Steps to Putting on a Condom" exercise helps to dispel rumors about condoms by having students actively participate in learning the 10 correct steps to putting on a male condom.
- Consent discussion to ensure students understand university policy
- "Negotiation Skills" activity has students actively participate in practicing healthy communication between simulated partners, including saying no to sexual advances and affirming condom use.
To schedule a presentation, please call Ryan Wilson in the Office of Sexual Health and Violence Prevention at 777-8248.
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