Medically Accurate Sex Education: Evidence, Health, and Sexual Knowledge
Medically accurate sex education provides current, evidence-based information about sexual health, anatomy, contraception, STIs, reproduction, and related topics.
Rights-Based Sex Education: Autonomy, Equality, and Sexual Health
Rights-based sex education connects sexuality and sexual health with dignity, bodily autonomy, consent, equality, privacy, and access to accurate information.
Inclusive Sex Education: Sexual Health, Identity, and Diversity
Inclusive sex education provides accurate, age-appropriate sexuality information that reflects diverse genders, orientations, bodies, abilities, relationships, and experiences.
Survivor-Centered Care: Choice, Safety, Dignity, and Autonomy
Survivor-centered care places a survivor’s safety, dignity, privacy, choices, and autonomy at the center of healthcare, advocacy, and support.
Trauma-Informed Care: Safety, Consent, Choice, and Autonomy
Trauma-informed care recognizes the effects of trauma and provides support through safety, choice, respect, informed consent, and reduced risk of retraumatization.
Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault: Consent, Drugs, and Incapacity
Drug-facilitated sexual assault occurs when alcohol or another substance contributes to a person being unable to give meaningful sexual consent.
Sexual Boundary Violation: Consent, Limits, and Sexual Autonomy
A sexual boundary violation occurs when someone crosses, pressures, or ignores another person’s limits involving sexual activity, touch, privacy, or communication.
Sexual Violence: Consent, Coercion, Assault, and Bodily Autonomy
Sexual violence includes sexual acts, contact, or coercion without freely given consent and can affect people of any gender, age, or relationship status.
Incubation Period: Time Between Infection and Symptoms
An incubation period is the time between acquiring an infection and developing symptoms, and it differs from the window period used for test detection.
Asymptomatic Infection: STIs Without Noticeable Symptoms
An asymptomatic infection is present without noticeable symptoms and may still be transmissible, making STI testing and screening important.