This Term

Throughout this term i was overall satisfied with the direction of the course. We learned a lot of things that I expected to learn as well as things I didn't expect to learn. For instance: I expected to learn about what HIV and Aids were as well as a few STD's, What i didn't expect to learn about was the Tuskegee experiment and the Tearoom Study however, I am very glad that I did. Both of those events as well as many others mentioned in class are of extreme importance for people of our age to know and be learning about. This course should most definitely be taught at a university level and I am very glad that it is.
Being on a college campus always keeps you at risk of contracting a form of a STI or STD. The knowledge that I have acquired through out this course will aide my judgment when considering promiscuity. Also, if i by some chance were to contract something I would have an idea of what it was and how to cure it, if possible.
Learning about how important it is to use a condom was an extremely useful thing to learn. I came into this class understanding it was important however I am leaving the class realizing it is not an option.
If I were to change the course in one way it would be to add the day where you get to practice putting condoms on bananas. Just like Lisa had promised in the beginning. I always see health teachers doing that in the movies and never understood why we didn't get to. Other then that, perhaps a little less busy work when doing the anthology. With that said, this course was a success.

Living with HIV

Our guest speaker on Monday, Bob Skinner, gave amazing insight on what it would be like to be living with AIDS. Bob Skinner's experience is much like others in the sense that I'm sure everyone who is told they are infected with AIDS is extremely shocked. However, Bob's experience is different from others in the sense that he found out ten years later which meant he completely missed the HIV stage and jumped right into full blown AIDS. Bob's experience is somewhat different as well in the sense that he was having sex with literally thousands of random men throughout that ten years of unknowing. Bob pointed out that the main route for HIV is unfortunately gay sex which rarely consists of using a condom. This is the most unsafe way to have sex and for that reason is the main cause of HIV transmission. Another large factor for Bob Skinner was living in a rural region. This caused him to be much more promiscuous than he would if he had lived somewhere else. Overall, i learned that living with AIDS is possible yet very tough. It is a drastic life change that will affect everyone differently. If you are going to have sex, have safe sex.