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get creative

EXPAND YOUR PERCEPTION OF FUN

Complete the following on paper or in digital format.

Use your creativity to find things to do with friends that lie outside of the realm of potentially unsafe activities. Check your
resources: What possibilities can you find at your student union, student activities center, college or local arts organizations,
athletic organizations, various clubs, or nature groups? Could you go hiking or biking? Paint pottery? Check out a baseball
game? Try a new kind of cuisine? Volunteer at a children’s hospital? See a play? Have a book club? List 10 specific activities
available to you.

skin-to-skin contact. Have a doctor examine any irregularity or discomfort as soon as
you detect it. Key 3.7 describes common STIs.
The most serious STI is AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome), caused
by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). AIDS has no cure and can be fatal.
People transmit HIV through sexual relations, by sharing hypodermic needles for
drug use, by receiving infected blood transfusions, or through pregnancy, birth, or
breastfeeding. Therefore, it is unlikely you can contract HIV from toilet seats, hug-
ging, kissing, or sharing a glass. Other than not having sex, using condoms (latex

KEY 3.7 To stay safe, know these facts about sexually transmitted infections.

DISEASE SYMPTOMS HEALTH PROBLEMS IF UNTREATED TREATMENTS
Chlamydia Discharge, painful urination, Can cause pelvic inflammatory disease Curable with full course of antibiotics; avoid
swollen or painful joints, change (PID) in women, which can lead to sterility sex until treatment is complete.
in menstrual periods for women or ectopic pregnancies; infection;
miscarriage or premature birth.

Gonorrhea Discharge, burning while Can cause PID, swelling of testicles and Usually curable with antibiotics; however,
urinating penis, arthritis, skin problems, infections, certain strains are becoming resistant to
sterility. medication.
Genital herpes Blister-like itchy sores in the Symptoms may subside and then reoccur, No cure; some antiviral medications can
genital area, headache, fever, often in response to high stress levels; reduce and help heal the sores, as well as
chills carriers can transmit the virus even shorten outbreaks and reduce the chance of
when it is dormant. transmission.

Syphilis A genital sore (often painless) If it lasts over four years, it can cause Curable with full course of antibiotics.
lasting one to five weeks, blindness, destruction of bone, dementia, Important to receive treatment early;
followed by a rash, fatigue, fever, or heart failure; can cause death or treatment will not reverse damage done by
sore throat, headaches, swollen deformity of a child born to an earlier stages of the disease.
glands infected woman.

Human Genital itching and irritation, Can increase risk of cancers including No treatment for virus, but warts are treatable
3 Papilloma small clusters of warts cervical cancer in women; virus may remain with drugs or wart removal surgery. Vaccine
CHAPTER 72 warts are removed. effective when given before exposure to HPV.
in body and cause recurrences even when
available (three doses necessary); most
Virus (HPV, or
genital warts)