Self-Reflection: Part 1 Sex, a word has long been a taboo in the society I come from. It is part of everyone’s daily life but I have never heard anyone talks about it in public in my adolescent years. Therefore, I was totally amazed when I first saw this course and I am very interested in exploring the world of sexual communication. As an international student from China, I have to say I had very limited source of information about sex at a young age. When I asked my parents where I came from, they usually replied with “you will know when you grow up.” I still remember when I was in 6th grade, there was a chapter about human’s reproductive system in the biology textbook. For the first time, I learned from the illustrations that males and females have different organs in their bodies, which would somehow magically make a baby. Why illustrations? Because my biology teacher was so embarrassed to talk about it in front of us that she skipped the entire chapter. As economy prospers in China, people started to have personal computers at their homes. It is until then I gradually obtained most of my knowledge about sex from the internet. I think this is a source for me because I can easily get the answer as long as I type my question about sex in the search engine. Thus, it is an efficient way to learn without feeling embarrassed. However, a major drawback of this is that the articles online are not very factual and reliable sometimes. As a result, I have to be able to discern between truth and myths on my own. This is not easy until I, and a few close friends of mine have been sexually experienced, so we can talk about sex once a while. I am most comfortable talking about sex with my boyfriend. We have been together for three years, so we are very open when topics come to sex. We are both very honest about what we like and what we expect in sex, and then put efforts