Abstinence

Avoiding all types of intimate genital contact.

Amniotic sac

A thin-walled sac that surrounds the fetus during pregnancy.

Blastocysts

A ball of cells that forms early in a pregnancy, about five to six days after a sperm fertilizes an egg.

Chromosomes

Thread-like strands that contain hundreds, or even thousands, of genes.

Consent

Asking someone for their permission to do something and accepting their answer.

Contraceptive

A device or preparation that is designed to prevent conception.

Dating Violence

Physical, psychological or sexual abuse; harassment; or stalking of any person ages 12 to 18 in the context of a past or present romantic or consensual.

Estrogen

A substance that tends to cause the development of secondary sex characteristics in the female and promote the growth and normal functioning of the female reproductive system.

Fertilization

The joining of an egg and a sperm.

Fetus

An unborn offspring that develops and grows inside the uterus (womb) of humans and other mammals.

Harassment

If someone is abusing, insulting, or otherwise harming you on a regular basis.

Healthy Relationships

Relationships that involve honesty, trust, respect and open communication between partners and they take effort and compromise from both people.

Menstruation

When ovulation takes place and the egg is not fertilized, the lining of the uterus sheds and drains through the vagina.

Ovaries

These two oval-shaped organs are to the upper right and left of the uterus.

Puberty

The name for the time when your body begins to develop and change as you move from kid to adult.

Semen

A sticky whitish fluid of the male reproductive tract that contains the sperm.

Sexual abuse

Abusive sexual behavior by one person upon another.

Sexually Transmitted Disease or Infection

Infections spread from person to person during sex (vaginal, oral, or anal) or close sexual contact.

Sperm

The human male's sex cell, which when joined with an egg, has the potential to form a new person.

Testosterone

A hormone that plays an important role in sexual development.

Zygote

A cell formed by the union of two sex cells.