Girls, guys and sex
Sex is everywhere you look these days – on TV, in movies, on the Internet, on billboards, in shops. This means that young people are given all sorts of conflicting messages about sex.
But not all of what you see or hear is helpful. A lot of it emphasises the need to have sex, but doesn’t explain what to do when you are actually doing it.
It doesn’t talk about building good relationships and treating each other with respect. And it doesn’t talk much about the bad things that happen when people are made to have sex against their will.
Sex shouldn’t be about ‘getting what you want’ – it should be about what both of you want, and enjoying what’s happening.
Whether it’s kissing, touching or having sex, it should always be something that you both want to do. If anyone is forced to have sex it becomes sexual assault.
