Making Sure You Are Ready

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How do you know if you are ready for sex when there is no-one to tell you when it is the right time? Watch "Making Sure You Are Ready", episode 2 of the CI Talks Sex Education video web series with Ticha Kanticha Chumma and discover 5 ways to know if you're ready for sex.

How do you know if you are ready for sex? No one can tell you for sure but there are checks that will make it easier for you to know when it is the right time.

Sex Readiness

Watch "Making Sure You Are Ready", episode 2 of the CI Talks Sex Education video web series with Ticha Kanticha Chumma who shares 5 ways to know if you're ready for sex. Use her checklist to help you know when it is the right time and place and with the right person.

Sex is one of those things that we should do for no one but ourselves. If something does not feel right, you are not ready. Don’t feel pressured to do anything you don’t feel comfortable doing and only go ahead when both you and your partner feel mutually comfortable and ready.

What is the Right Age?

There are laws in place which dictate the age at which individuals are legally allowed to participate in sexual intercourse and these laws are there to protect minors. If you or your partner is below the legal age, you are not ready.

Being Physically Ready

You need to be physically ready. Our bodies are different; some of us go through puberty much earlier than others. But many girls enter puberty and start their periods at around the age of 12 (with a wide margin). At this time they are “physically” able to conceive but this does not mean that they are physically or mentally ready. They are not.

If you are having doubts and don’t want to go all the way, you are not ready.

Yes, But All My Friends Have Done It

Or so they say. Your friends may put you on the spot with comments like “What? You’re still a virgin” or “we’ve all done it, why haven’t you? Then there is the other classic, “if you don’t let him do it, he will dump you”. Have you heard these before? If you have, you aren’t the first and won’t be the last.

Never feel pressured to do something you are really not comfortable doing. You will know when you are ready for sex when you feel ready and then it can be a wonderful experience for you both.

Sexual Readiness Checklist

Use Ticha’s checklist which gives you 5 ways to know when you are ready for first time sex:

  1. Is it the Right Time, Right Place, and with the Right Person?
  2. Am I being pressured into having sex?
  3. Was Once Enough?
  4. What Protection Will I Use?
  5. Hold on. Let's go through the questions again to make sure I’m ready.