Reflection Paper: This 4-page paper will be your personal examination of how you have learned about

sexuality up to this point in your life. Write a personal reflection paper that addresses variables in your own life like religion, gender, formal education, media/popular culture, and race, and tell how they have influenced your own sexual development, your concept of gender roles, and your relationships.

Questions to start your reflections might include: Who and what were the most important childhood influences for your sexual development (e.g.,parents, brothers and sisters, peers, media, religion, etc.)? Has it made a difference that you were female or male, the oldest, middle or youngestchild in your family? Is your race/ethnicity a factor in how people relate to your sexuality? Has this brought any

special rewards or strains? What messages about sex did you get from your faith community? Did your school teach sex education? If so, was it helpful? If not, do you feel it would have been helpful to offer a course in sex ed? What messages/stereotypes from the media have had an impact on how you view yourself as a sexual being? What about friends and/or family who are part of the LGBTQ community? Do you consider yourself a sexual rebel, conformist, optimist, skeptic, liberal, conservative, or anything else? When looking at the choices of topic for your final paper, which interest you the most and why?

The class is Human Sexuality.