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Get Real: Comprehensive Sex Education That Works

 

Lesson 9.3: Gender, Sex and Shared Responsibility

Lesson Goals

  • Identify stereotypes as harmful.
  • Explain why both partners are responsible for the possible consequences of unprotected sex.
  • Identify ways in which both partners can take responsibility in a relationship.

Connecting the Lessons

Connects to Lesson 9.5: Comprehensive Protection Methods, Lesson 9.6: Preventing STIs and Lesson 9.10: Healthy and Unhealthy Relationships.

SEL Skills Addressed

  • Self-awareness
  • Social awareness
  • Relationship skills

Logic Model Determinant(s)

  • Increase positive attitudes toward condoms and/or other protection methods.
  • Address values around abstinence and sex.
  • Address attitudes about abstinence and sex.
  • Address perceptions of peer norms regarding sexual behavior.
  • Address perceptions of peer norms about relationships.
  • Address perceptions of peer norms about perceived male responsibility for pregnancy prevention.
  • Increase self-efficacy of SEL skills to delay and /or refuse sex.
  • Promote SEL skills to increase use of condoms and/or other protection methods.
  • Increase self-efficacy to demand the use of condoms and/or other protection methods.
  • Use SEL skills to increase assertive communication in relationships
  • Increase communication with parents and other caring adults.