Of course in high school I took a health class because it was required, but this year as an elective I decided to take human sexuality as sort of an easy class because the rest of mine were really hard for the most part.

I thought it would be basically the same as health class in high school but it was actually really interesting. We didn't just talk about genital herpes and getting STD's and safe sex, we talked about the emotions behind all of the anatomy stuff and men and women's views on sex and relationships.

We also talked a lot about the media and the role it plays on sex and how it influences people both good and bad. It was such an interesting course and even though it was at 8:30 in the morning, I actually enjoyed getting up for it (for the most part) and hearing what the teacher had to say. I thought at first I would have a hard time with it because I am more of a shy person and am not really into talking about sex with an entire classroom of people, and actually I started out in a different section of the class and ended up switching into the one I was in because the teacher was really awkward and the teacher I ended up having was great. She approached it in a scientific but also realistic way. We got to learn the anatomy of things and also the reality. For example we learned about STD's like genital herpes but we also learned about how people get them and why they don't use condoms and how the media portrays an STD and how people deal with it medically and emotionally. We always hear about things in the media or in health class but we don't really get the mix of the two things and this way we got to blend everything together so it fits better into our real lives.

It was a great class because it deals with real life and things that almost everyone will encounter (well maybe not an STD but relationships and health and sex). I would really recommend taking it and I think that at least at our school it counts as an elective and a friend of mine took basically the same course at a different university and he loved it too.