Health Questions

Evaluating Your Health, Wellness and Influential Factors in Relation to Awareness of Your Sexuality

Part One Health and Wellness Factors on Your Sexuality

The purpose of Part One of this project is to help you assess your personal levels of health and wellness, examining how these factors impact your sexuality.

Instructions:

1. Pay attention to the health and wellness

2. Write a short assessment of your overall level of health and wellness answering the following questions:

1. How does your current level of wellness impact your sexuality in a positive way? Be specific with one area of physical fitness, diet, sleep or stress. For example, if you work out regularly and feel good about your fitness, how does this impact your view of your sexuality? Explore in depth these one or two areas that are positive for you.

2. How does your current level of wellness impact your sexuality in a negative way? Again, be specific, but of course you are focusing on a different health and wellness aspect.

3. What area of your health would you like to change? How do you think this will enhance your sexuality? Be specific. If you want to stop smoking or cut back on drinking, for example, how does this change impact your sexuality?

4. What resources are available to help you make this change—on campus or in the community? This can be a discussion about either the positive or the negative impacts. What resources are available on campus to support you—yoga for stress reduction, health center for STI information, etc. But you must be specific. When is yoga offered? How does yoga help in stress reduction? What resources specifically can be found at school Health Center? How might the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs (ATOD) center here on campus help you make a change—what resources so they offer? What would help you change a negative factor that is not available on campus?

Part Two Major Influences on Your Sexuality

The purpose of Part Two of this project is to familiarize you with the factors that have contributed to your sexuality up until this point in your life. While all of the factors discussed in the book have played a part in your psychosexual development, certain ones exert stronger influences at different periods of your life. Part Two is designed to help you understand the role, and become aware of the factors that have played a role in your psychosexual development.

Instructions:

1. Describe in one or two sentences each of the six factors as to how they contribute to your sexuality. The "friends" category encompasses boyfriends and girlfriends as well as other friends. Pick two factors to discuss in length. For example, in your text book, the authors discuss how one male student described how his brother and his brother’s friends taught him that when a woman said no to sex, she really meant yes. His thinking about women and sex was influenced by his older brother. What factors have led to your thoughts about your sexuality today?

2. Which of these factors contributes the most to who you are as a sexual person at the present time? How so? If you chose College—elaborate. Are you in a dorm or apartment where roommates have casual sex? How does this influence you? Or, how has this class influenced your choices or Health 101? How does your new or first boyfriend/girlfriend influence your behavior? What if you are suddenly attracted to a same-sex partner? Are you comfortable with this change? Would you parents support your choices? How does the choice to abstain from sex affect you? Maybe the choice to abstain is not voluntary. Perhaps you’d like a relationship (or simply a lover—or a lover from time-to-time) but you don’t know how to seek the opportunity. How does this affect yourself as a sexual person?

3. If you could change one thing about one of the factors what would it be? Again, be specific. You have new freedoms at college—i.e. casual sex, drinking, different partner opportunities, yet your parents still want to exert control over your actions and time. How can you influence change in this regard? You want to explore other partners, but your boyfriend/girlfriend from high school is clingy and contacts you regularly. What can you do to positively change this factor? Perhaps you seek pleasure from watching porn, but want to interact more in groups and activities. How can you affect this change? Perhaps you use alcohol to help you be less inhibited at a party, and you want to stop this behavior. What resources are available to help you make a change?

Paper Format:

· Double spaced, 12pt font, 1 inch margins

· Roughly 6 pages in length, including references if appropriate

· Format your paper into the sections described above and outlined below

· Please number each question as shown below

Part One

Introduction (brief summary of your overall assessment)

1. Answer to question one

2. Answer to question two

3. Answer to question three

4. Answer to question four

Part Two

Introduction (brief summary of the influences on your sexuality)

1. Answer to question two

2. Answer to question three

3. Answer to question four

Part Three

Conclusion to Paper

References if needed

You do not need research in this project. If you do look to outside information—as I hope you will—you must reference that in your text and in a reference page. Follow APA format as we did in our research assignment.