sexuality

encompasses a person's sexual thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and actions

Sternberg's Seven Kinds of Love

• liking I
• infatuated P
• empty C
• romantic I P
• companionate I C
• fatuous P C
• consummate I P C

levels of intamacy

soulmates

significant other

best friends forever

j u s t  f r i e n d s

f r i e n d i s h

acquaintances 

HIV/AIDS

• VIRUS
• may incubate for months to years
• no cure-drugs may suppress virus
• AIDS weakens immune system
• transmitted through blood, semen, vaginal fluids 

Genital Herpes

• VIRUS
• incubates about a week
• causes sores in genital and anal areas
• infected tissues come in contact with someone uninfected person (condom may or may not be effective)
• no cure- drugs may reduce number of outbreaks

Genital Warts

• VIRUS
• one of the most common STIs
• incubates weeks-months
• transmitted through skin to skin contact
• caused by the HPV virus  

Syhpilis

• BACTERIA
• transmitted through sores cause by bacteria (condom is effective if it covers the sores)
• three week incubation
• treatable with antibiotics 

Gonorrhea

• BACTERIA
• couples of days incubation
• infects men's urethra and women's cervix
• condoms are very effective
• may cause irreversible damage to reproductive tract
• painful urination

Chlamydial Infection

• BACTERIA
• 2-8 WEEKS incubation
• most common STI
• cured by antibiotics
• condoms reduce risk (spread through mucus membranes)