5. Game: "Dam!"

This game is played similarly to the previous game, "Condom!" Prepare sets of jumbled squares, using the following instructions for making and using a dam.

Making and using a Dam (for the game Dam!):

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You might want to play this game in two parts, "making the dam" (numbers 1 - 4) and "using the dam" (numbers 5 - 10).


  1. Use an unlubricated condom
  2. Cut off the tip
  3. Unroll the condom
  4. Cut along one side
  5. Put lubricant on one side of the dam.
  6. Hold the dam with both hands.
  7. Put the lubricant side down on your partner,
  8. Stretch the dam over the vulva (sex parts).
  9. Have sex.
  10. Take off the dam
  11. Throw the dam in the garbage.

6. Make a poster

* Ask learners to make a poster about how to use and care for condoms. You can check the information with your speaker first.

7. Critical reading: safer sex information.

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Try to use "Women and AIDS: Choices for Women in the Age of AIDS."


* Read with the group one or two or more pamphlets on safer sex. Look at them critically. Discuss them, in these four areas:

Who does this pamphlet talk to?

  • Does the pamphlet talk more about men or women?
  • Does it talk about all women? lesbians? straight women? women of different races? different ages? differently abled women?
  • Who don't we see or read about?
  • Does the pamphlet talk to you?
  • Does the pamphlet say clearly who it talks to? Do you have to guess?
  • Does it talk to the people it says it does?

What does this pamphlet say about safer sex?

  • What safer sex acts does the pamphlet explain?
  • Does it explain different ways you can choose to protect yourself? Or just one way?
  • Is the information clear?
  • Does it explain how to protect yourself from one sexually transmitted disease, or many?
  • Does it tell women who have HIV, and women who don't have HIV, ways to protect themselves?
  • Does it discuss what makes safer sex hard and what to do about this?

What does this pamphlet leave out?

  • What diseases does this pamphlet not discuss?
  • What safer sex acts does this pamphlet not explain?
  • Does it explain different ways that you can choose to protect yourself during intercourse? during oral sex? sexual touching? sharing sex toys? during s/m?
  • Does the pamphlet say where we can learn more?

What are the effects of leaving information out? (For example, we might think that what it leaves out is safe, or we might think there is nowhere to go to learn more?)


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