The Sexual Person I Am Today

How did I become the sexual person I am today? This is a question I have never asked myself before. It was not until writing this essay that I realized how I have been influenced, how I have grown and have become the sexual person that I am today. I came to realize that I was influenced by a variety of factors throughout my lifetime. Some of these factors include family values and expectations, social media, friends and personal experiences. These are all important to me because they shaped my way of thinking and how I felt about sex and its meaning. One of the most important influences I had was from my family. My parents and I never had “the sex talk” but they did talk to me about values a lot and would warn me about the negative and dangerous effects of having unprotected sex. They would also mention how important it was to be careful with intimate relationships and how feelings could end up being hurt more than a

During high school having multiple sexual partners was the normality and girls did not take care of themselves sexually. My high school ended up having a high pregnancy rate and sexually transmitted infection rate as well. This was most likely due to insufficient sexual education during the early years of high school and a high poverty rate in the area. I feel like I learned quickly form my mistake and learned how to protect myself sexually and emotionally. I saw all the pregnancies going on around me and learned from them and told myself that was not going to be me. Going to this high school and learning from all these experiences shaped my thinking even more and made me realize that sex should not be something that just gets tossed around and it can lead to serious consequences if protective measures are not