Sex education – adolescent level

Various types of education and teaching ideas

Why kissing is good - here are a few points about kissing and why it's beneficial.

Talking to children about pornography - here are points that are helpful to read before discussing pornography with adolescents.

Pornography and 'sexting' – the prevalence of sexual image sharing among children - Video. In this lecture, Margrét Lilja Guðmundsdóttir, a specialist at Research and Analysis and a lecturer at the Sports Science Department of Reykjavík University, and Kolbrún Hrund Sigurgeirsdóttir, Project Manager of the Reykjavík Gender Equality Academy, discuss digital sexual violence and the extent of sexual image sharing among children.

The difference between sex and pornography. Here is a teaching idea aimed at helping students understand the difference between sex and pornography

Debating agreement/disagreement. Here is a teaching concept aimed at getting students to consider various issues (e.g., pubic hair, nude photo sharing, violence, etc.), take a position on them, and be able to justify their views. This also provides the opportunity to change opinions and realize that there may be more than one side to any issue.

Ten reasons to avoid OnlyFans - here, former sex worker Harmony (Dust) Grillo provides ten reasons why she believes creating an OnlyFans account is a bad idea. She writes particularly to those who identify as girls/women, but the article is intended for everyone

What adolescents want to learn about - results of a workshop from 2020 with adolescents from all City schools. This is what the youth wanted to be educated on then. Check out Week6 2024 to see what they want to learn about today.

Checklists

Am I ready to start having sex? - this checklist is well suited for young people who are considering when they are ready to start having sex with others. The checklist is intended for young adults to review and answer for themselves, not to be submitted or have the answers read aloud.

It is recommended to offer a variety of teaching methods

• Group work/presentations
• Use post-it notes, for instance, in brainstorming sessions.
• Slide presentations
• Slido.com or menti.com - allows for the submission of anonymous questions, word clouds, and more.
• Use magazines, movies, shows, and social media - discuss, for example, media pressure to always be sexy, ready for everything, and that everything is so great, unrealistic, and even harmful.
• Videos / show videos / allow students to create videos
• Drawings - have students draw, embroider, craft or mold bodies and genitalia from clay. Emphasize that the appearance and function of bodies and genitals are very diverse.
• Allow students to create content online - such as Q&As or write brief articles, blogs, or other materials.
• Have an idea box / question box
• Use a word -/ concept jar, clarify basic terms and words well. Students can draw from a jar. Examples of words could be: intercourse, foreplay, caresses, masturbation, intimacy. Afterward, they can seek out information, discuss together, and then explain to others or write it down and hang it on the wall.
• Allow students to create pamphlets, a website, or a podcast.
• Debates - select a topic and exchange views on it, for instance, about pubic hair, pornography consumption, or condom use.
• Conduct interviews, for example with parents or grandparents, about their first love or heartbreak, about puberty, and about the sex education they received back in their day.
• Engage in games
• 'Café conversations' – taboo sessions. Here, anonymous questions can be used.
• Work with dilemma scenarios
• Introduce various projects and campaigns, such as #Week6 and Sick Love.
• Present well resources such as 112.is, Barnaheilli suggestion line, the help phone 1717, Love Sick webchat, gynecologists of the Sexual Health Clinic, emergency reception for victims of sexual violence in Fossvogur, and Stígamót.