Sexual+and+reproductive+health

What is sexual health? Sexual health is protecting yourself from infections (STI’s) or diseases (STD’s) or unplanned pregnancy it also means keeping your body healthy. Sexual health doesn’t only mean about your body feels it’s also how you feel emotionally, are you having sex for the right reasons? Are you being pressured into sex? Do you feel safe? These are few of the many questions that youth do not ask themselves when it comes to sex. By ignoring asking these questions you leave yourself open for a poor sexual health, there are a lot of factors that contribute to poor sexual health for youth. Drugs and alcohol play a big part in the reason as to why teens have sex, or are pressured into having sex, when under the influence of drugs or alcohol can change your ability to make decisions and you can make decisions that you wouldn’t usually make which can put you in very difficult positions having safe sex is being able to look after yourself in all these situations.
 * Sexual & Reproductive Health**
 * Youth challenges; Sexual and reproductive health**

Safer Sex: Safe sex is contact that By having unsafe sex you risk passing on sexually transmitted infections from one person to another, and it may seem as though the person you caught the STI from didnt look like they carried it, but reality is that an STI carrier does not show signs, the only way to tell is to talk to your parnter or have a test done before you became sexually active with them.
 * Reduces the risk of catching or passing on STI’s(sexually transmitted infections)
 * Is consented and is respectful
 * Reduces the risk of unwanted pregnancy
 * Is not forced
 * And is also safe emotionally

Facts One in five Australian lesbians intend to become pregnant in the next 5 years, 70% using self-insemination with donor sperm (according to a 2000 survey by the group Significant Others) Australian teenagers who get pregnant are more likely to have an abortion if they are interested in school and having a career (according to a 2001 Australian National University study) Endometriosis (a painful uterine disease) affects 1 in 10 women and costs Australian businesses $280 million a year in sick leave and reduced productivity. The number of HIV cases in Victoria has increased by more than 40% in the past two years, mostly among males between the ages of 20 and 40. "Safe sex fatigue" is being blamed for men who no longer think it is important to use a condom. In a single act of unprotected sex with an infected partner, women have a less than 1% chance of acquiring HIV, and a 50% chance of getting gonorrhoea. Chlamydia is a very common STI. 70% of women and 40% of men who have it have no symptoms - yet with unprotected sex, they can pass it on to an uninfected partner about 50% of the time.