It's Your Call - Making Sexual Decisions

an interactive site
to help you make decisions that are right for you


(based on the software - "It's Your Call - Making Sexual Decisions")
#8: Let's Slow Down.
Rick has been seeing a lot of Chris in the past two weeks, and Chris seems eager for sex. Rick's last relationship turned sexual very quickly and it changed the relationship radically - they had a lot of sex, but really they didn't get to know each other all that well or share much other than sex.
CONTENTS

Introduction

Aspects of Sexuality

    •Biological Sex

    •Body Image

    •Self Esteem

    •Personality

    •Sexual Orientation


    •Values and      Attitudes

    •Gender Roles


    •Relationships

    •Activity Options

    •Communication

Myths about Male Sexuality

Myths about Female Sexuality


If a Pregnancy Results...

Alcohol and Other Drugs


Resources

Credits

Info on Other Software


Scenarios - Instructions

1. How Far Should We Go

2. Under Pressure

3. He Hates Condoms


4. Oh no... I'm Pregnant

5. Is He Seeing Someone Else?

6. Matt Coming Out

7. It's Not What I Thought

8. Let's Slow Down

9. Emergency!

10. Pulling Out

11. On the Pill...Sort Of


12. Party Times

13. One Night Stand

14. Ready or Not

15. Cultural Tradition

16. Dating Again

17. Your Own Real Life Scenario


Rick doesn't want to fall into the same pattern with Chris.

They seem to be heading for sex pretty fast, and Rick wants to slow things down and get to know each other better for a while before they get into sex. It's not that he's not turned on to Chris; it's just that he doesn't want things to move quite so fast.

 

What should he do?

Here are some of the issues you'll want to explore before answering this scenario:

 

When you've finished exploring the issues and are ready to enter your solution, remember to return to Scenario #8: "Let's Slow Down".

What should he do?

 

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a free interactive software program downloadable from
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