Introduction

These interactive webpages are intended to help you make decisions about what's right for you in terms of experiencing and expressing your sexuality-with or without your partner, whether you're male or female, straight, gay or bisexual, and whether you are "sexually active" or not.

Often, sexual decisions get made "on the spot," without a process of information gathering and reflection.

By using these webpages to explore sexual decision making before you're actually in a situation requiring a decision, you're more likely to make decisions that feel right for you and don't result in unwanted outcomes like pregnancy or STDs.

Making decisions about sex involves not only information, but also thinking about who you are as a person-your wants and needs, likes and dislikes, and your values.

It can be helpful to talk to your partner, parents, friends, clergy and counsellors about the complex issues around sexual decision making.

Remember-wherever you are in your life, decisions about your sexuality can be remade and adapted to your circumstances on an ongoing basis.

What felt right when you were 16 may not be right for you when you're 25, and what's right with one partner may not be the same as what's right with another.

These webpages give you the opportunity to practice your sexual decision making by solving a number of scenarios. You'll explore the information and exercises in these pages to come up with the best possible solution to each scenario, according to your personal values.

You'll find a lot of information in these interactive webpages. They actually incorporate three other programs previously released in this series.

The different pages in the It's Your Call site are located to the left in the table of contents. Please click on these links at any time to move to the other pages in the series.

At several points in the webpages, you'll be asked to type in short answers to questions about your own feelings and attitudes. Doing this will help you sort out your needs and values and decide what's right for you.

The screens where you can type in your thoughts will have a box that looks like this:

If you wish to print your answers to keep in a journal, you may. However, to protect your privacy, the computer will erase everything you've typed as soon as you leave that page.

These pages may become a kind of journal that will be useful to you in thinking about the decisions that are best for you. Be sure to keep them in a safe place to ensure your privacy.