Table of Contents
Introduction: Lots of Questions
Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, Gender, and Sexual Health 1
Part 1 What Is Sex?
1 Babies, Kids, Preteens, Teens, Grown-ups 2
Sex and Gender
2 Making Babies 5
Sexual Reproduction
3 Strong Feelings 6
Sexual Desire
4 Making Love 8
Sexual Intercourse
5 Who We Are 11
Straight, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning,+
Part 2 Our Bodies
6 The Human Body 18
All Kinds of Bodies
7 Outside and Inside 22
Our Sex Organs
8 Words 28
Talking about Bodies and Sex
Part 3 Puberty
9 Changes and Messages 30
Puberty and Hormones
10 The Travels of the Egg 33
Eggs and Puberty
11 The Travels of the Sperm 39
Sperm and Puberty
12 Not All at Once! 43
Growing and Changing Bodies
13 More Changes! 45
Taking Care of Your Body
14 Back and Forth, Up and Down 48
New and Changing Feelings
15 Perfectly Normal 51
Masturbation
Part 4 Families and Babies
16 All Sorts of Families 53
Taking Care of Babies and Kids
17 Instructions-Information 56
The Cell: Genes and Chromosomes
18 A Kind of Sharing 59
Cuddling, Kissing, Touching, and Sexual Intercourse
19 Before Birth 63
Pregnancy
20 What a Trip! 67
Birth
21 Other Arrivals 72
More Ways to have a Baby and Family
Part 5 Decisions
22 Planning Ahead 75
Delay, Postpone, Abstain, Prevent, Control
23 Laws and Rulings 82
Abortion
Part 6 Staying Healthy
24 Helpful-Fun-Creepy-Dangerous 87
The Internet and You
25 Talk About It 93
Sexual Abuse
26 Getting a Checkup 97
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
27 Scientists Working Day and Night 101
HIV and Aids
28 Staying Healthy 106
Responsible Choices