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Understanding

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Your Body

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Whom do our teenagers talk to
about sex

39.5 % mothers
22.3 % father
56.6 % friends
 Should I have Pre-marital Sex?

Yes Emotional No

Don’t Rush…
It’s worth waiting for the proper time
To get married and have sex
 Yes
Yes

STIs Satisfaction of
Pregnancy
Needs • Guilt
• Shame
• Regret
• Doubts
About
Partner
• Fighting
• Break-up
 Pregnancy

Parental
Disappointment

Abortion Early Marriage Adoption

• Guilt • Financial Difficulty • NoBurden

• Regret • Stop Schooling • No Guilt
• Resentment • Regret
• Separation
• Difficulty for Kids
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of teenage pregnancy?

• Reduces young females’ chances of

attaining higher education

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• May lead to early school drop-out

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among young women
• Jeopardizes chances for better
employment opportunities

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 What are the social consequences of

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teenage pregnancy?
• Extended financial dependence of young
females on their families

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• Possible inability to take responsibilities

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of motherhood due to lack of
emotional and psychological maturity

• For young men, early fatherhood can

disrupt educational plans and increase
economic responsibilities
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 Risk to Teenage Mother’s Health

• Pregnancy complications
– No prenatal care; High risk pregnancies

1. Hemorrhage during labor

2. Difficult labor
3. Pre-term labor

− Abortion
− Infection DEATH
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We Break Up We Wait

• Find Someone Else • Sex After Marriage

• Guilt-free
• Reconciliation • Stronger Relationship
• Other Activities
Together
 Abstain from Sex Until Marriage
• Abstinence means that a
person does not have sexual
intercourse. It’s the most
effective and perfect way of
protecting yourself from
pregnancy,STI,HIV/AIDS and
unnecessary anxieties.

• If sex is valued as something

sacred and for marriage, it
should be done only with your
spouse.
 Abstain from Sex Until Marriage

• Instead of entering into sexual relationship,

enjoy yourself with friends. You will get to
know more people and this will help you
choose a partner when you are ready.

• Put more energy for education, personality

development, skills training and sports.
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Research into sexual and reproductive
health of young people clearly points to the fact
that information provision and education alone do
not necessarily lead to behavior change.

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Increasing awareness and
understanding our own fertility is the
first step in preventing unwanted
pregnancy and STI/HIV.

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What the Youth Needs to Know

• Know your body

• Male and Female Reproductive System

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• There are many ways of expressing love,

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affection and acceptance which do not involve
sexual intercourse

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What Youth Needs to Know
• How to communicate about sexuality and how
to handle societal and peer pressures about
sexual behavior

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• Know how to make own decisions about sexual
activity, including abstinence

• Alternatives to high risk sexual behaviors

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Understanding Sexual Orientation
Sexual Orientation
is an emotional, physical and sexual attraction to
another person

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Heterosexuality- an attraction to the opposite sex

Homosexuality- attraction to the same sex

Bisexuality- attraction to both the same and the

opposite sex

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Understanding Sexual Orientation
• Sexual Orientation is NOT a choice
nor it is something people
can decide for themselves or
for others. It has a very strong
genetic component and is not

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purely determined by life’s

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experiences.

• Whether a person is a heterosexual,

homosexual or bisexual, it is
usually established before
puberty and before he/she
begins having sexual
relationship, or even before
birth.

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Orientation

• Persons with homosexual orientation are sometimes

referred to as “gay” or a “lesbian”. Homosexuality is

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not an illness, mental disorder or an emotional or

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social concern. It does not require treatment.

• While others may have different views on

homosexuality (wrong or not), we should always
remember that treating someone with respect and
accepting him or her does not mean you have to
agree with everything he or she does.

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Understanding Sexual Orientation

• No one deserves to be rejected because of who

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they are or how they act. No one deserves to be

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discriminated because of sexual orientation.

• It is your right to enjoy whatever sexual

orientation you have

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 Changes in Boys
• Penis, testis and scrotum
get bigger
• Pubic hair starts to grow
• Wet dreams occur
• Height increases suddenly
• Shoulders and chest get
broader
• Voice changes
• Adam’s apple
• Underarm hair starts to grow
• Pimples
• Moustache and beard starts
to grow
 Changes in Girls

• Breasts develop
• Bony pelvis starts to grow
• Growth spurt
• underarm and pubic hair starts
to grow
• Ovaries get bigger and develop
• Get pimples
• Growth of uterus and vagina
completed
 Male Reproductive System
Vas deferens
Seminal vesicles

Prostate gland

Cowpers gland

Urethra
Penis

Testes Epididymis
Scrotum
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Pituitary gland influences important changes

Testosterone causes the adolescent male to

develop secondary sex characteristics: deepening of
the voice; growth of facial and body hair; growth of
the scrotum and penis; rapid spurts of increase in
height and broadening of the chest and shoulders.
 Male Reproductive System

Sperm production started and is continuous

for the rest of his life. Average production is
100 million daily
“Wet dreams” or nocturnal emissions
occasionally occur when an “overflow” of
sperm is ejaculated while the male is asleep.
Spontaneous erections occur, a normal part
of adolescence.
 Male Reproductive System

Testes/Testicles- produces sperm cells and

testosterone
 Male Reproductive System

Scrotum- protects the testicles

Male Reproductive System

Epididymis- long coiled tube; stores newly formed

sperm cells until it matures
 Male Reproductive System

Vas deferens- long tube; conveys sperms to the

urethra
 Male Reproductive System

Seminal vesicle- Nourishing protective fluid containing

glucose is released
 Male Reproductive System

Prostate Gland- produces alkaline fluid

 Male Reproductive System

Cowper’s Gland- secrete a lubricating fluid (semen) into the

urethra that cleanses and neutralizes the acidity of the passage.
 Male Reproductive System

Urethra- long tube; conveys sperms and urine

outside the body
 Male Reproductive System

Penis- spongy erectile tissue, male sexual organ

Male Fertility
Men are always fertile
– Nature awakens the boy to his fertility with his first wet
dream.
– At puberty the testicles produce sperm cells under the
influence of the hormone testosterone.
– A normally healthy man continues to produce sperm cells
throughout his entire life.
Male Fertility
The man’s reproductive component is in
abundant supply
- Approximately 50,000 new sperm cells are
produced each minute, with as many as 100M
produced each day
- There are between 300M and 500M sperm cells
in a normal ejaculation of seminal fluid.
Pregnancy could result with every act of
intercourse
Male Fertility continued…

Approximately 300 million sperm are released

during each ejaculation, only about a hundred
would actually survive the journey to the fertile
ovum.

Out of the several sperm cells that arrive at the

ovum and attempt to penetrate the egg cell, only
one would be admitted for fertilization.
Male Fertility continued…
At the very moment that one sperm has succeeded
in penetrating the cell wall of the ovum, the
chemical composition of the ovum changes,
making it instantaneously impervious to
penetration by other sperms cells.

It is the sperm that determines the gender of the

new baby to be conceived. Each sperm carries
either an X- chromosome which results in a female
baby, or a Y-chromosome which results in a male.
Male Fertility continued…
Threats to male fertility
– smoking
– drug or substance abuse
– chronic alcohol abuse
– use of anabolic steroids
– overly intense exercise
– chemicals, pesticides, fertilizers, radiation
– infections of reproductive system such as prostatitis, epididymitis,
orchitis
– trauma or injury to the testes
– certain jobs or work which exposes the scrotum to intense heat
– systemic diseases like diabetes mellitus, thyroid dysfunction
– certain drugs may cause erectile dysfunction like beta blocker
Female Reproductive System

Fallopian tube
Uterus

Uterine lining

Cervix
Ovary
Vagina
 Female Reproductive System

OVARIES – whose function is the cyclic maturation of

ova (eggs), produce hormones oestrogen and
progesterone
 Female Reproductive System

FALLOPIAN TUBES – tubes through which sperm cells are

assisted in their passage from the uterus to the ovum (egg);
- Where the ovum is being fertilized
 Female Reproductive System

UTERUS – the fertilized ovum (embryo) is actively transported to

the body of the uterus
 Female Reproductive System

Uterine lining – the inner lining of the uterus which is

shed at menstruation
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CERVIX – the neck of the uterus which bears the

mucus-producing crypts
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VAGINA – the birth canal, the passage through which

the baby is delivered. The lining of the vagina has no
glands
Female Fertility
 Women of reproductive age are at most times infertile. Between puberty
and menopause, a woman is only fertile for just a few days at a time during
each monthly cycle, when her body releases an egg. The egg (ovum)
matured and lives for about a day.
– girls achieve reproductive capability earlier than boys, on the average
around age 12
– Woman’s fertility starts at puberty, with her first menstrual period and
ends at menopause.
Female Fertility continued…
When a baby girl is born, her young ovaries already
contain approximately 400,000 immature eggs and
follicles, only around 400 of these eggs will ever
mature

The fertility cycle of a woman varies in length from

below 24 days-short cycle, within 25-35 days-
average cycle, to more than 36 days-long cycle
Female Fertility continued…

A woman has times of dryness and wetness, in each

cycle
- A Dry times are infertile times
- Wet times are fertile times
- The time when the woman feels dry but is still wet is a
fertile time
 MENSTRUAL PHASE
PANAHON NG REGLA
HORMONES
Bumagsak ang ESTROGEN at
PROGESTERONE

Nagpapahinga ang obaryo

Natutunaw, naaalis at lumalabas bilang

Bukas ang kuwelyo regla

Lumalabas ang regla sa puwerta

 PRE-OVULATORY PHASE
PANAHON BAGO ANG OBULASYON
HORMONES
Magsisimula nang magpatubo ng sapin ng
•FSH Matris

•ESTROGEN

FOLLICLE
Sarado ang kuwelyo. Unti-unti itong bubukas,
tataas at lalambo
Pagkapahinga ng Obaryo magsisimula na
itong magpahinog ng itlog

Unti-unting magpapabago ng lusaw sa

Lusaw na nagsisilbing bara kuweba
 OVULATORY PHASE
PANAHON NG OBULASYON
HORMONES
•LH
•ESTROGEN

Palalabasin na ang hinog na itlog galing sa obaryo

patungong tubo

Pakakapalin ang sapin ng

Matris
Ang kuwelyo ay bukas na, mataas at
malambot na parang labi
Ang lusaw sa kuweba ay madulas na at
nababanat
 POST-OVULATORY PHASE
PANAHONG MAKATAPOS ANG OBULASYON
HORMONES
•PROGESTERONE
•ESTROGEN

Lalong kakapal ang sapin ng Matris para CORPUS LUTEUM

maging kaaya-aya sa sanggol

Magbabago ang lusaw sa kuweba, hanggang

Ang kuwelyo ay sasara, bababa at titigas ito ay maging malagkit at magsisilbing bara
na parang dulo ng ilong
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ABOUT A WOMAN’S
About a
MENSTRUAL CYCLE
Woman’s Menstrual Cycle
Ovulation usually occurs 14 days after the beginning of the
last menstruation
Ovulation can occur more than once in a cycle
Most women have cycles of about the same number of days
each month
If a woman does not ovulate and menstruate every month,
something is wrong
Woman can get pregnant as a result of sexual intercourse
any time during their cycle
A woman cannot get pregnant the first time that she has
intercourse
In order to get pregnant, a woman must “ go all the way”
 Threats Effects How to Deal
with Threats
1. Teenage pregnancy High-risk pregnancy
Abortion Avoid pre-marital sex
Sexually Transmitted Disease

2. Unsafe/several abortions Damaged cervix

Infections Submit to medical consultation
Hemorrhage/Bleeding
Death

3. Infection of the reproductive tract A- Too acidic vaginal secretion

(e.g. Gonorrhea, Chlamydia)
A. Infection of the vagina
B. Cervical Infection
C. Chronic Pelvic Inflammatory disease
which weakens the sperm
B- Too thickened cervical mucus Avoid pre-marital sex
limiting passage of the sperm to the uterus Submit to early medical consultation and
C- Scarring of the fallopian tubes treatment
obstructing the transport of egg

4. Illnesses (e.g. Tuberculosis, goiter, tumor of Menstrual irregularities Seek early medical consultation and treatment
the ovary)

5. Stress

6. Decreased body-fat ratio Healthy Lifestyle/Stress Management

(e.g. extremely thin) Menstrual Irregularities Avoid unnecessary exposure to radioactive
substances
7. Chronic or excessive exposure
to x-rays or radioactive
substances
 Combined /Joint Fertility
The power of man and woman to participate
in the Creation of Life

3 elements are needed in order for conception

of a child to take place
presence of mature egg cell at the fallopian tube
presence of sperm cells at the woman’s reproductive
tract (at any point in her vagina/cervix/uterus/
fallopian tube)
presence of fertile cervical mucus which allows
meeting of the sperm and egg
If any of these elements is missing infertility will result
 Responsible Sexual Behaviors
• It is not bad for you to have
a strong feeling for, or fall
in love with, someone. As a
teen your sexual desires
often rule your thoughts
and actions. As much as
possible, learn how to
control these new and
potent desires. Try
diverting your attention to
some productive activities
like sports, or give more
time to your studies.
 Be firm with your decisions!
• Maintain your respect
and dignity. Make sure
your friends or other
people do not force you
to do something you
don’t want to do. You
must be firm with your
decisions.

• When you need help,

talk to friends, teachers
or members of the
family or someone you
trust. They can guide or
support you.
A responsible approach to sex now will bring its reward later.

Responsible Sexual Behavior

Learn to say
“NO”
to premarital sex!
 Healthy & Responsible Decisions

No matter how many people have told you

about a “right” decision, always weigh the
advantages and disadvantages of what you
plan to do.
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