LibGuides: Human Sexuality: Home

MLA

MLA at Purdue Owl
Great assistance from Purdue.
Noodle
Noodle is an electronic citation generator. Have an account? All you need to do is create a new project. No account? Just follow the instructions on the site. Use your student ID and birthday for ID and PW, just like here at school.

Human Sexuality and Contraception

Planned Parenthood Contraception
Great information about contraception!

These are your best resources for the Contraception project for 9th grade Health students.

Birth Control from Teen Health
Less detailed then some of the other sites, easy to read.
It's Your Sex Life:Preventing Pregnancy
Produced by MTV, informative and visually appealing.
Birth Control from Medline Plus
Produced by the National Institutes of Health, you can also read about studies concerning contraception from this site. This link leads you directly to contraception information.
Contraceptive Access and Information
Their mission here:"Established in 1980 as the Center for Population Options, Advocates for Youth champions efforts that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. "
Contraception from the CDC
Very good information from the Centers for Disease Control. You can find stats and other data relating to teens and pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections from this site.

Health Ebooks and Databases

Consumer Health Complete
A huge health database, with fact sheets, research reports, and multimedia. From the Power Library Menu, click on Health/Sciences->Consumer Health Complete Then, search.

If you wanted to read about the controversies surrounding teenage sexuality, you could check out these issues-oriented sites. The Health & Wellness Resource Center is a fine option for getting facts about human sexuality, including contraception.

SIRS Leading Issues
A browsable list of researchable issues to help you find and narrow your topic. Each topic has overview articles, viewpoint articles, multimedia in a student-friendly package. **WILL NEED TO ADD ACCESS DATE FOR CITATION**
Opposing Viewpoints Issues
Click on Browse Issues for topic listing. Similar to SIRS, an A-Z listing of topics for which pages have been created discussing all aspects of the topics including overviews, multimedia, and viewpoint articles.
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Encyclopedia articles, id&pw needed from home.
Health and Wellness Resource Center
A huge database. Search on your method, choose one of the articles from Books/Fact sheets.