Human Sexuality Flashcards
We should assist individuals to
understand physical and
psychosocial dimensions of
sexual growth and development.
HUMAN
SEXUALITY
The gender of a particular
person based on genital
characteristics and social
attitudes.
● One’s sense of being a sexual
individual
● Includes how one looks,
behaves, and relates to others
HUMAN
SEXUALITY
A term used to denote a person’s
chromosomal sex:
male (XY) or female (XX)
Biologic Gender
Distinguish between males and females
PRESCHOOL
Imitating adult roles (gender roles)
SCHOOL-AGE
Establishment of sense on identity
ADOLESCENT
Choose ways on expressing sexuality
Young Adult
Achieved a degree of stability
MIDDLE-AGE ADULT
Enjoys active sexual relationship
OLDER ADULT
People who
are attracted to
the same sex
HOMOSEXUAL
People who
are attracted to
both men &
women
BISEXUAL
People who are
attracted to the
opposite sex
HETEROSEXUAL
Someone who
does not
experience
sexual attraction
ASEXUAL
Behavior of how someone release sexual
desires and achieves sexual fulfillment
Sexual Expression
- An individual either male or female as an
obsessive-compulsive desire to belong to
the opposite sex.
Transsexualism
also called ________,
crossdressing or eonism, transvetism
means, an obsessive compulsive need of
an individual almost always male to
wear clothes worn by the opposite sex.
Transvestism
A _______is sexually stimulated by
clothing usually worn by women.
transvestite
this is a form of sexual abnormality in
which sexual gratification depends largely
on infliction of pain upon others.
Sadism
_____________ , an Australian
novelist who described this condition, in
which sexual gratification depends largely
on undergoing physical pain or
humiliation.
Leopold von Sacher Masoch, Masochism
An abnormal condition in which an adult
is obsessively compulsively attracted to
prepubescent youth.
Pedophilia
An individual’s obsessive-compulsive
inclination to obtain sexual gratification
by public exposure of his or her body or
sex organs.
Exhibitionism
from the Greek “nekros” corpse and
“philos” love, necrophilia means love of
corpse or cadavers.
- A necrophiliac usually a male is aroused
by the sight of a human corpse and tries
to have sex relations with it.
Necrophilia
this is a sexual abnormality in which
individual experiences sexual stimulation
and orgasm by mutilating corpses.
Necrosadism
killing his partner in order to enhance his
own arousal and sexual satisfaction.
Sex Murder
An individual becomes sexually aroused
by a mere sight of a woman’s underwear,
hair, a shoe, a stocking, a blouse, girdle
etc.
Fetishism
Gender identity is established early in life.
Infancy
