180 Sexual Health
Chapter 12
In this chapter:
Sex and Gender Roles
How gender roles are learned
When gender roles cause harm
182
182
183
How Gender Roles Affect Sexual Health
Harmful beliefs about women’s sexuality
184
184
Improving Your Sexual Health
186
Feeling more pleasure from sex
186
Making sex safer
189
Talking about safer sex 192
Working for Change
Activities to improve sexual health
194
194
This chapter gives information about sex and offers suggestions about how
to make sex safer.
For more information about:
• how to prevent unwanted pregnancies, see the chapter on “Family Planning,”
page 196.
• infections passed through sex and how to treat them, see the chapter on
“Sexually Transmitted Infections,” page 260.
• rape and sexual violence, see “Rape,” page 326, and “Violence against
Women,” page 312.
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