GRADE FIVE AND SIX SEXUALITY: QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS

Sexuality is an integral part of the personality of everyone: man, woman, and child. It is a basic need and an aspect of being human that cannot be separated from other aspects of human life...It is in the energy that motivates us to find love, contact, feel warmth, and intimacy; it is expressed in the way we feel, move, touch and are touched; it is about being sensual as well as sexual. Sexuality influences thoughts, feelings, actions and interactions, and thereby our mental and physical health. Since health is a fundamental human right, so must sexual health also be a basic human right... [including] freedom from fear, shame, guilt, and false beliefs and other psychological factors. (The World Health Organization 1986) "We believe that the facts of one's life are not as important as one's perceptions of those facts. " (Christensen and Thomas 1983 pg. 10