Sex Ed, Wednesday, Period 2, Class #5

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When the students arrived in class, they found a basket full of adorable, plush shapes just inside the doorway. Edward instructed each of them to grab the plushie of their choice when they came in.



Once the students were seated, Edward dimmed the lights and began. He used a slide show and talked about sexually transmitted diseases. He used a number of slides showing the effects of these diseases in full color.* He did mention the role of condoms in prevention, but he emphasized that abstinence was the only way to completely be safe.

When the lights came back up, he had one of each of the plushies in front of him. "These are my gift to you as a reminder of today's lesson. They are oversized representations of the microbes that cause some of the diseases we've discussed. The yellow is herpes, the pink is syphillis, the blue is gonorrhea, the black is HIV and the purple is the relatively mild mono."

"Now please find your fellow sufferers and we'll do a game of STD Roulette."


[Looking at the STD slides link is not recommended unless you have a pretty high threshold for gross.]

[Please wait for OCD. Have at! Class info post here.]

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Groups!

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Play the charming STD Roulette game! (http://www.healthconnection.org/temp/new/group_2232.html) Spin the wheel and then take a card relating to the disease the needle landed on and read a fun fact about STDs aloud! (http://www.ashastd.org/learn/learn_statistics.cfm)

[You can grab a fact from the link above, come up with one from your own resources or just handwave it.]

Herpes!

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Those who picked that cute yellow herpes microbe can find each other here.

Re: Herpes!

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Kevin held up his plush friend. "My fun face is that I've named this little guy Herb."

He might have missed a few steps in what it was they were supposed to be doing.

Re: Herpes!

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"That is a fun fact," Triela smirked as she walked over, her own plushie dangling loosely from one hand.

Re: Herpes!

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"Herb the herp," he continued with a nod towards the girl. "Wrong him and he'll give you cold sores for life."

Re: Herpes!

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"That's pretty extreme," she grinned. "I guess he doesn't do things by halves, huh?"

Re: Herpes!

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"He's too little and too cute to pull his punches," he replied.

[ooc: lunch/meetings... SP!]

Syphillis

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Those with good ol' syphillis meet here.

Re: Syphillis

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Chuck was there, bouncing the syphillis plushie on a desk like it wasn't totally adorable.

Re: Syphillis

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Tosh glanced at her plushie and shook her head. "Syphillis isn't supposed to be adorable."

Re: Syphillis

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"He's so cute!" Toby cooed at his plushie.

Gonorrhea

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The clap!

Re: Gonorrhea

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Blair was still not feeling the love for her diseased plushy.

Re: Gonorrhea

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Marco, on the other hand, was. Which is why he was making it walk and talk, randomly. "Hi!" Said the Marco/plushy as he sat down.

HIV

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Even the plushie looks creepy.

Re: HIV

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Claire bounced the HIV plushie from hand to hand and stroked it a little. It was so cute, it wasn't its fault it was so deadly!

Re: HIV

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Cal lifted his own HIV virus and shook it a little toward Claire's. It was its way of saying 'hello.'

Re: HIV

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Claire snickered and shook hers back at him. "So," she asked brightly, "got any AZT?"

Re: HIV

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Both Cal's head and his HIV's head...okay, body, since there really wasn't much distinction, tilted. "Any what now?"

Re: HIV

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"AZT?" Claire repeated. "It's ..." she had no idea what it stood for. "The drugs you take if you have HIV for real, so you don't die."

She was starting to blush. "Please don't tell me you're from Mars or something."

Mono

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The kissing disease.

Re: Mono

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Angela was examining her cute little mono virus. "They really shouldn't make something so gross, seem so adorable."

Re: Mono

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Amber was squeezing her little mono plushie. "I know, right?"

Re: Mono

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"I mean, you're just not supposed to be able to say 'Aw, you got mono! That's so sweet'."

Angela reached forward to twirl the spinner on thier table. "Ooh, herpes."

Probably shouldn't be able to make that sound so normal either.

Re: Mono

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"And purple," she practically cooed.

Amber plucked up a card, raising her brows at Angela, "You want to read the fun fact?"

Yeah, this might be fun in a way that just might erase the picture slides from her mind. 'Cause ew.