Smart Talk:
Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention

Audience:  Teens, Multi-Racial

Year: 1988
Running Time: 13 minutes

Speech Rate: 180 words/min

Large Words
Average: 3.6
Minimum/Maximum: 0/18

Purchase Price (VHS): $189
Rental Price: Not Available

Distributor:
Planned Parenthood Alameda/San Francisco
Education Department
815 Eddy Street, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 441-7858

 

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This video focuses on the questions and challenges faced by teens regarding sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases. Teens from a variety of backgrounds discuss their feelings about sex, waiting to have sex, peer pressure, condoms, and STDs. Condoms are discussed as effective barriers to STDs, and a dramatization depicts a young teen male buying condoms. Waiting until one is mature enough to have sex is emphasized, along with the importance of taking responsibility for protecting oneself and one’s partner from STDs.

The video provides a good brief introduction to the topic of sexuality and sexually-transmitted diseases. It will be most effective as a trigger for subsequent discussion. Specific symptoms and treatment of STDs are not discussed, nor is use of condoms demonstrated. The video encourages teens to postpone sexual activity.

Strengths include the video’s use of teens to present information (no adult experts appear in the video); the wide-ranging discussion of teens’ concerns and questions about sexuality and fitting in; and the multiracial cast of teens featured in the video. The visuals and audio are of high quality, and the use of MTV-like video techniques will appeal to teen audiences.

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