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        • Attitude, Outlook, Character, Perception
        • Body Image
        • Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity
    • MENTAL & EMOTIONAL HEALTH
      • The Internet and Mental Health
      • Emotions & Feelings
        • Special Focus: Anger
        • Special Focus: Fear
        • Stress Management & Coping
      • Stress
        • Stress Manangement
      • Self-Harm / Self- Injury
      • Mental Illness
        • Special Focus: Depression
      • Suicide Awareness and Help
    • PHYSICAL HEALTH
      • Benefits of Physical Activity
      • Cell Phone Safety
      • Importance of Sleep
      • Immune System
      • Physical Disease Prevention
        • Communicable Disease
        • Non-Communicable Disease
      • Personal Safety
        • Concussions
        • Control Bleeding
        • Fire Safety
        • Home Safety
        • Infant and Young Child Concerns
        • Poison Control
        • Responsible Driving
        • Weather Related Dangers
        • Personal Self-Defense
      • Nutrition
        • All-Natural & Organic
        • Vegetarian & Vegan
        • Various Plans and Methods
    • Substance Abuse
      • Drugs OVERVIEW
      • Addiction to Drugs
      • Alcohol
      • Medication Abuse
        • Pain Killers
          • Fentanyl
          • Kratom
        • Steroids
      • Heroin
      • Marijuana
        • CBD (non THC)
      • Tobacco
        • Cigarettes
        • Dip, Hookah, Cigars, etc
      • Vaping
      • Caffeine
      • Club Drugs
      • Synthetics and Bath Salts
      • Crystal Meth (Methamphetamine)
      • Cocaine & Crack
      • Inhalants
      • Hallucinogens plus
    • SOCIAL HEALTH
      • Cyber & Cell Safety
      • Relationships
        • Qualities of Healthy Relationships
        • Infatuation --> Obsession - vs Love
        • Unhealthy Relationships
        • Dating Violence
      • Violence & Violence Prevention
        • Bullying
        • Cyberbullying
        • LGBT+ Bullying & Violence
        • Gun Violence in America
      • Conflict Resolution
      • Communication
    • Sexual Health & Sexuality
      • Sexual Health Overview
      • Influences of Sexual Decision Making
      • Sex Decision-Making
      • Age of Consent and PA Sex Laws
      • Consent - Rules and Factors for (Sexual)
        • Consent page made by Rush Students 2025
      • Sexting
      • STD's
        • specific STD's other than HIV
        • HIV & AIDS
      • Abstinence
      • Contraception
        • Condoms (External/Male)
        • Birth Control Pills
      • Sexual Violence & Abuse
      • LGBT+
        • LGBT+ Bullying & Violence
        • Ballroom Culture
      • Pregnancy & Childbirth
        • Choices if you get Pregnant
        • Pregnancy care considerations
        • Parenting
        • Pregnancy and PArenting student created site
      • Puberty
        • Reproductive Systems
  • PHYS. ED.
    • About Exercise & P.A.
      • The Basics
      • The Benefits
      • Principles / Rules of Exercise
    • Fitness Tests
    • Ideas to do.....
      • What do we do in PE
      • GIF WORKOUTS
      • DAREBEE
    • WHAT IS HIIT
    • Stretching
    • PE projects
    • Safety in PE
    • Healthy weight & Obesity
  • HANDS ONLY CPR
  • TEACHER BIO
  • Google Classroom
Corabi Health & Phys. Ed.
  • HOME
    • EMAIL Mr. Corabi
    • About Mr. Corabi
    • About Mr. Doyle
  • HEALTH ED
    • WELLNESS & Foundational Health
      • PISES
      • Communication
      • Benefits of Physical Activity
      • Immune System
      • Importance of Sleep
      • Influences & "Spiritual" Health
      • Inside the Teen Brain
      • Choices & Decisions
      • Social Media and Internet Safety
      • Social Determinants of Health
      • YRBS
      • Addiction (General)
      • Sense of Self
        • Personality
        • Attitude, Outlook, Character, Perception
        • Body Image
        • Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity
    • MENTAL & EMOTIONAL HEALTH
      • The Internet and Mental Health
      • Emotions & Feelings
        • Special Focus: Anger
        • Special Focus: Fear
        • Stress Management & Coping
      • Stress
        • Stress Manangement
      • Self-Harm / Self- Injury
      • Mental Illness
        • Special Focus: Depression
      • Suicide Awareness and Help
    • PHYSICAL HEALTH
      • Benefits of Physical Activity
      • Cell Phone Safety
      • Importance of Sleep
      • Immune System
      • Physical Disease Prevention
        • Communicable Disease
        • Non-Communicable Disease
      • Personal Safety
        • Concussions
        • Control Bleeding
        • Fire Safety
        • Home Safety
        • Infant and Young Child Concerns
        • Poison Control
        • Responsible Driving
        • Weather Related Dangers
        • Personal Self-Defense
      • Nutrition
        • All-Natural & Organic
        • Vegetarian & Vegan
        • Various Plans and Methods
    • Substance Abuse
      • Drugs OVERVIEW
      • Addiction to Drugs
      • Alcohol
      • Medication Abuse
        • Pain Killers
          • Fentanyl
          • Kratom
        • Steroids
      • Heroin
      • Marijuana
        • CBD (non THC)
      • Tobacco
        • Cigarettes
        • Dip, Hookah, Cigars, etc
      • Vaping
      • Caffeine
      • Club Drugs
      • Synthetics and Bath Salts
      • Crystal Meth (Methamphetamine)
      • Cocaine & Crack
      • Inhalants
      • Hallucinogens plus
    • SOCIAL HEALTH
      • Cyber & Cell Safety
      • Relationships
        • Qualities of Healthy Relationships
        • Infatuation --> Obsession - vs Love
        • Unhealthy Relationships
        • Dating Violence
      • Violence & Violence Prevention
        • Bullying
        • Cyberbullying
        • LGBT+ Bullying & Violence
        • Gun Violence in America
      • Conflict Resolution
      • Communication
    • Sexual Health & Sexuality
      • Sexual Health Overview
      • Influences of Sexual Decision Making
      • Sex Decision-Making
      • Age of Consent and PA Sex Laws
      • Consent - Rules and Factors for (Sexual)
        • Consent page made by Rush Students 2025
      • Sexting
      • STD's
        • specific STD's other than HIV
        • HIV & AIDS
      • Abstinence
      • Contraception
        • Condoms (External/Male)
        • Birth Control Pills
      • Sexual Violence & Abuse
      • LGBT+
        • LGBT+ Bullying & Violence
        • Ballroom Culture
      • Pregnancy & Childbirth
        • Choices if you get Pregnant
        • Pregnancy care considerations
        • Parenting
        • Pregnancy and PArenting student created site
      • Puberty
        • Reproductive Systems
  • PHYS. ED.
    • About Exercise & P.A.
      • The Basics
      • The Benefits
      • Principles / Rules of Exercise
    • Fitness Tests
    • Ideas to do.....
      • What do we do in PE
      • GIF WORKOUTS
      • DAREBEE
    • WHAT IS HIIT
    • Stretching
    • PE projects
    • Safety in PE
    • Healthy weight & Obesity
  • HANDS ONLY CPR
  • TEACHER BIO
  • Google Classroom
  • More
    • HOME
      • EMAIL Mr. Corabi
      • About Mr. Corabi
      • About Mr. Doyle
    • HEALTH ED
      • WELLNESS & Foundational Health
        • PISES
        • Communication
        • Benefits of Physical Activity
        • Immune System
        • Importance of Sleep
        • Influences & "Spiritual" Health
        • Inside the Teen Brain
        • Choices & Decisions
        • Social Media and Internet Safety
        • Social Determinants of Health
        • YRBS
        • Addiction (General)
        • Sense of Self
          • Personality
          • Attitude, Outlook, Character, Perception
          • Body Image
          • Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity
      • MENTAL & EMOTIONAL HEALTH
        • The Internet and Mental Health
        • Emotions & Feelings
          • Special Focus: Anger
          • Special Focus: Fear
          • Stress Management & Coping
        • Stress
          • Stress Manangement
        • Self-Harm / Self- Injury
        • Mental Illness
          • Special Focus: Depression
        • Suicide Awareness and Help
      • PHYSICAL HEALTH
        • Benefits of Physical Activity
        • Cell Phone Safety
        • Importance of Sleep
        • Immune System
        • Physical Disease Prevention
          • Communicable Disease
          • Non-Communicable Disease
        • Personal Safety
          • Concussions
          • Control Bleeding
          • Fire Safety
          • Home Safety
          • Infant and Young Child Concerns
          • Poison Control
          • Responsible Driving
          • Weather Related Dangers
          • Personal Self-Defense
        • Nutrition
          • All-Natural & Organic
          • Vegetarian & Vegan
          • Various Plans and Methods
      • Substance Abuse
        • Drugs OVERVIEW
        • Addiction to Drugs
        • Alcohol
        • Medication Abuse
          • Pain Killers
            • Fentanyl
            • Kratom
          • Steroids
        • Heroin
        • Marijuana
          • CBD (non THC)
        • Tobacco
          • Cigarettes
          • Dip, Hookah, Cigars, etc
        • Vaping
        • Caffeine
        • Club Drugs
        • Synthetics and Bath Salts
        • Crystal Meth (Methamphetamine)
        • Cocaine & Crack
        • Inhalants
        • Hallucinogens plus
      • SOCIAL HEALTH
        • Cyber & Cell Safety
        • Relationships
          • Qualities of Healthy Relationships
          • Infatuation --> Obsession - vs Love
          • Unhealthy Relationships
          • Dating Violence
        • Violence & Violence Prevention
          • Bullying
          • Cyberbullying
          • LGBT+ Bullying & Violence
          • Gun Violence in America
        • Conflict Resolution
        • Communication
      • Sexual Health & Sexuality
        • Sexual Health Overview
        • Influences of Sexual Decision Making
        • Sex Decision-Making
        • Age of Consent and PA Sex Laws
        • Consent - Rules and Factors for (Sexual)
          • Consent page made by Rush Students 2025
        • Sexting
        • STD's
          • specific STD's other than HIV
          • HIV & AIDS
        • Abstinence
        • Contraception
          • Condoms (External/Male)
          • Birth Control Pills
        • Sexual Violence & Abuse
        • LGBT+
          • LGBT+ Bullying & Violence
          • Ballroom Culture
        • Pregnancy & Childbirth
          • Choices if you get Pregnant
          • Pregnancy care considerations
          • Parenting
          • Pregnancy and PArenting student created site
        • Puberty
          • Reproductive Systems
    • PHYS. ED.
      • About Exercise & P.A.
        • The Basics
        • The Benefits
        • Principles / Rules of Exercise
      • Fitness Tests
      • Ideas to do.....
        • What do we do in PE
        • GIF WORKOUTS
        • DAREBEE
      • WHAT IS HIIT
      • Stretching
      • PE projects
      • Safety in PE
      • Healthy weight & Obesity
    • HANDS ONLY CPR
    • TEACHER BIO
    • Google Classroom

Abstinence 

(looking for Sexual-Decision Making. Click here)

Benefits of Waiting till Marriage (Devon Franklin)

The Benefits of Waiting (the Real)

"Be Liberated" (Secondary) Abstinence (Abiola Akanni) 

Abstinence, simply put, is refraining from sex.  It is the only 100% way to prevent unwanted pregnancy and the spread of STI's.  It can be a promise you make to yourself from puberty until much later in life (such as marriage) or a promise you remake after having sex. 

 In today's often hypersexual American culture, the decision to wait to have sex and choosing or re-choosing Abstinence, can be a tough one to make.  Still, some young people do.  In fact, statistics show that high school students today are waiting longer than their 1980's and 90's counterparts.   


Articles, Websites & Resources

For a big list of ways to say "No", read the "101 ways to say No to sex" poster here

10 Arguments for Abstinence  (thought Co) 

this article also is part 1 of a debate on Abstinence-only education. 

You can click a link in the article to view the counter argument) 

Abstinence (beforeplay.org)

About Abstinence (Nemours Health)  

Abstinence in High School Students Case Study (Science Direct)

Abstinence: A Hard Choice (Hope Pregnancy Center Philadelphia)  

Secondary Abstinence: Choosing Abstinence after having sex (Chroma, 2017)

What the Hell is Secondary Abstinence (Hannah Smothers, Splinter 2015)

This screen shot below comes from a really long research article for medical professionals from the CDC 2019

Some lessons are required by the School District of Philadelphia  via adoption of a program created by the CDC called "3R's".  

Information about this can be found on the main unit page.  Once you click ., find the section of the page called why teach a comprehensive unit" and expand the arrow.

This link will show you the information at the top of the page once you click on it  

This Unit is a comprehensive although not all inclusive Unit on various topics in Human Sexuality (listed in the drop down navigation menu) that could be developed into a full course.   Content in the Unit ranges from GRADES 5-12 but OBVIOUSLY some of the content is NOT for all grades.  For a Top 10 list of reasons to include a comprehensive program for sexuality  / Sexual Health education rather than just Abstinence only Education, please CLICK HERE.   

ALTHOUGH ALL EDUCATIONAL,  STUDENTS NOT ENROLLED IN MR. CORABI'S HEALTH CLASS OR HEALTH CLASS AT THE ARTS ACADEMY AT BENJAMIN RUSH, SHOULD GET THEIR PARENT'S PERMISSION BEFORE OPENING ANY LINKS OR DOWNLOADING ANY HANDOUTS.  Other Teachers choosing to use information in this unit should use their discretion based on District Level, Community Level and School Level curriculum guidelines and policies. 

It is assumed that students assigned to Mr. Corabi's class or Health Class at the Arts Academy at Benjamin Rush have their parent's permission based on weekly communication via google classroom posts, email or letters given to students for parents/guardians.  Note:  A child can consent on their own for Sexual Health Education and testing at age 14 in Philadelphia, PA.   

Website DISCLAIMER:  This website is a google sites website created and maintained by Todd Corabi, Huntingdon Valley PA.  The primary use of this website is for Todd Corabi to supplement materials used in class for the Arts Academy at Benjamin Rush, Philadelphia, Pa
No copyright infringement is intended. All postings are posted solely for education.  NO STUDENT CONTACT INFORMATION IS POSTED ON ANY OF THESE PAGES or this website directly . Student work posted is either without names OR posted on their personal youtube channels/webpages OR posted with permission granted by parents/guardians/caretakers
Students & Parents & Guardians at the Arts Academy at Benjamin Rush are asked to review the topics & topic pages prior to each week.  They may ask to be excused from certain topics that are too sensitive to them or that conflict with internal values.  At the same time, students & parents/guardians can review materials, websites, videos etc prior to the lessons. 
If you have any concerns, please email tcorabi@philasd.org .  When posting links to articles, videos, other sites: the site name, user or author is included Permission is GRANTED for anyone else to use any material on this site that Todd Corabi created...please give source credit. 
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