Topics on Topics on Topics.

So I've come to notice I'm a little late in the game when it comes to sharing my topic. I sometimes forget that I have this blog to write in and well this happens.
I know we have already turned in our topic proposals, but I'm going to put mine here if any of you have insight or good ideas of where to find information.
So a little bit about my background will help in making this topic idea seem not so random.
When I went to Oregon State for the first three years of my undergrad, I joined this group called Every1. It stood for Every 1 person sexually assaulted is 1 too many.

http://studenthealth.oregonstate.edu/every1
(not the most exciting website but I thought I would share it.)

We were a group of peer educators that went around campus and gave presentations to our sports teams, Navy/ROTC, sororities and fraternities and so on. We lectured on the prevalence of sexual assault on campus, what consent is and what consent is not; as well as the difference between healthy and non-healthy relationships, how to help a friend, and where to find resources. We sponsored events like Take Back the Night, Speak Out, and SAAM (Sexual Assault Awareness Month). We were also the ones responsible for providing free condoms  (Condom Hot Spots) and other safe sexual health tools. We worked hand in hand with MARS which is Male Advocates for Responsible Sex.
These were the best three years of my life. If someone had told me in high school I would be working with population and advocating for survivors of sexual assault I would have thought they were crazy. But it happened and I love my work.
One of the things that really struck my interest, and at the same time, boggled my mind was just how unaware of 'birth control' fellow students were. They were unaware of the different types, they were unaware of the effective rates among different forms of birth control. What really worried me was that women didn't know they had options. There is more to life than condoms and pills. They were unaware that through our student health we could gain free birth control. We had access to so many options that were not getting taken advantage of, because men and women did not know.
One of the things that would always get me the deer in headlights look was the statement that "Men are just as responsible as women in terms of their sex life's birth control methods." It was something that seemed to go unmentioned in relationships. I just wanted to scream at them to talk about it!
And because of this, it got me thinking about the sexual health topics they were taught in high school  Or in life. Or lack thereof.
 It's because of our lack of communication on this important topic that high school and entering college freshman have no knowledge of their options. Abstinence only doesn't work and we know that. You tell a 16 year old not to have sex, they're going to have sex. Of course there are exceptions to that rule, but in majority that is how it is. So if we teach them how to do it safely and where to find resources to do so we might see a great change.
People are unaware of what kinds of methods there are, and where that method came from. People don't know the history or the benefits/implications of each option and that is critical to making an educational decision.
So I want to use this class as an opportunity to look at the most prominent forms of birth control and where they came from. How they came into use. Some of that information goes way back unto Ancient Egypt. It's all very fascinating. And I would like to tie in to that the ways of how this information is taught throughout our education system and just how problematic it is to keep information like that from youth. (Just look at the teen pregnancy rates.)
This is something that I am very passionate about and I hope maybe you can gain something from me furthering my research.
I am sorry for this ramble, and I hope it makes sense.