Human Sexuality Flashcards
Is a multidimensional phenomenon that includes feelings, attitudes, beliefs and actions
Human Sexuality
lt encompasses and gives direction to a person’s physical, emotional, social and intellectual responses throughout life
Human Sexuality
The individual’s persisting inner sense of being male or female, masculine and feminine
Gender Identity
Its development was based on biologic sex and socio-cultural reinforcement which brings at birth with identification of the baby as male or female
Gender Identity
Includes all those aspects of the human being that relate specifically to being a boy or girl, man or woman
Sexuality
As a function of total personality, it is concerned with biological, psychological, sociological, spiritual, and cultural variables of life
Sexuality
The preference of one person for one sex or the other
Sexual Identity/Sexual orientation
One who is sexually attracted to one person of the opposite sex (straight)
Heterosexual
One who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex (gay or lesbian)
Homosexual
One’s belief that one is not the sex of one’s physical body but of the opposite sex
Ex: trapped in the wrong body: sex change surgery
Transsexual
Not limited in sexual choice with regard to biological sex, gender, or gender identity
Pansexual