Sexual Self Flashcards
is a system of sex organs designed for reproduction and sexual function. It affects only how individuals view themselves nut also their sexuality and sexual relationships.
The Reproductive System
It refers to how one thinks about themself as a sexual individual. It speaks of your sexual health, sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression and values around your sexuality.
SEXUAL SELF
is a biological feature that distinguishes males from females. Moreover, during puberty, observable changes in the human body also known as secondary sexual characteristics begin.
At birth, the sexual genital (penis for male, vagina for female)
DEVELOPMENT OF SEX CHARACTERISTICS
The beginning of adolescence marked by rapid physical changes, including maturation of reproductive system and the development of _____ ______
primary and secondary characteristics
Physical characteristics present at birth. These are the characteristics that distinguish male from famale.
PRIMARY SEX
Develop during the onset of puberty ________ _____ characteristics in males include the growth of pubic hair, and facial hair and the voice deepens. Female ________ characteristics include breasts develop, has widen, and pubic hair begins to grow.
SECONDARY CHARACTERISTICS
are areas of the body which are highly sensitive and produce sexual responses when stimulated. These includes the genitals, mouth, breasts, ears, anus and to a lesser degree, the entire surface of the body.
THE EROGENOUS ZONES
arousal is complex. It may be produced by direct stimulation of the body’s erogenous zones on the areas of the body that provide pleasure.
Human sexual
One of the most basic forms of sexual stimulation _______ _______ that causes sexual pleasure or orgasm.
is masturbation or self-stimulation
as intimate kissing, cuddling, necking, or touching the erogenous zones maybe uniquely important to sexual arousal.
sexual activities
SEXUAL IDENTITY AND GENDER ORIENTATION (4)
•Biological sex
•Gender roles
•Sexual orientation
•Gender identity
is one’s assignment upon birth and is dependent on physical feature. On the other hand, gender is an identity that is learned and embraced by individual.
Biological sex
refer to societal expectations of how men and women should act. Everyone has a basic idea of gender roles men are assumed to be strong and dominant while women are perceived to be submissive and demure.
Gender roles
a person’s identity in relation to the gender or genders to which they are sexually attracted, the fact of being heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, and asexual.
Sexual orientation
is each person’s internal and indhidual experience of gender. It is their sense of being a woman, a man, both, neither, or anywhere along the gender spectrum A person’s gender identity may be the same as or different from their birth-assigned sex
Gender identity
sexually or romantically attracted exclusively to people of the other sex.
heterosexual
sexually or romantically attracted to people of one’s own sex.
homosexual
is an attraction to more than one gender.
bisexual
if you’re attracted to people of more than one gender, or all genders.
pansexual
is the lack of sexual attraction to others, or low or absent interest in or desire for sexual activity.
asexual
As adolescence grow and mature, they male patterns of relationships and commitments with other people. While These new patterns of relationship may change as they mature, they could form foundations which intimacy during adulthood will be established. During adolescence, dating and courtship emerge and become increasingly important.
CHEMISTRY OF LUST, ATTRACTION, AND ATTACHMENT
proposed three stages of falling in love, and for each stages different set of chemicals run the show.
Anthropologist Helen Fisher of Rutgers University
Erotic passion
This stage marked by physical attraction want to seduce and be seduced by your abject of affection. ____ is driven by testosterone in men and estrogen women. ____ however, will not guarantee that the couple will fall in love in any lasting way.
LUST
Romantic passion
At this stage, you begin to crave for your partner’s presence. You feel excitement and energetic as you fantasize about the things you could do together as a couple. Three chemicals trigger this feeling norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin.
ATTRACTION
