SEXUAL SELF Flashcards
designed to discuss facets of human sexuality like sexual behaviour,
understanding, identifying sexual orientations and differentiating love from lust.
SEXUAL SELF
is influenced by physical,
psychological, spiritual and cultural factors
HUMAN SEXUALITY
HISTORICAL
In Ancient Greece, it is the male that assumes the dominant role.
The penis was viewed as the symbol of fertility and how the male body was structures and greatly admired.
The wife is considered object to be owned like property. Women are not allowed to read and write. Her only function was to bear children. The greek word for woman is “gyne” means-bearer of children
it is defined as how one thinks about himself or herself as asexual individual
SEXUAL SELFHOOD
the Church decreed that all sexual acts that do not lead to procreation were considered evil.
The Middle Ages (476-1450)
TEMPTRESS
LIKE EVE
WOMAN OF VIRTUE
VIRGIN MARY
THEY BELIEVED THAT SEXUALITY IS A NATURAL PART OF LIFE THAT THE PRIESTS SHOULD MARRY AND HAVE THEIR FAMILIES
THE PROTESTANTISM
THEY ASSERTED THAT THE REASON FOR SEXUAL INTIMACY WAS TO STRENGTHEN THE PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL BOND BETWEEN HUSBAND AND WIVES AND NOT JUST FOR PROCREATION
MARTHIN LUTHER AND JOHN CALVIN
IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IT IS THE BRAIN THAT INITIATES AND ORGANIZE SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR
THROUGH THE PROCESS OF SEXUAL REPRODUCTION, THE NEXT GENERATION OF HUMAN BEINGS ARE CREATED BY FUSION OF EGG CELL AND SPERM CELL
BIOLOGICAL
HOMOSEXUALITY AND PROSTITUTION WERE RAMPANT.
SEX IS MARITAL DUTY
WOMEN TOLD NOT TO ENJOY SEX AND IF THEY DID, THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THEM
BELIEVED THAT MASTURBATION LEADS TO BLINDNESS, INSANITY AND DEATH
THE VICTORIAN ERA
GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO DISCONNECTED WITH CHURCH OF ENGLAND. PREMARITAL SEX IS CONSIDERED IMMORAL
THE PURITANS
SECONDARY SEX CHARACTERISTICS OF MALE
- VOICE BECOMES MUCH LOWER (BREAKS)
-HAIR GROWTH ON CHEST, FACE, UNDERARMS, ARMS, LEGS AND PUBIC AREA - INCREASE IN MUSCLE SIZE
- SKIN BECOMES OILY AND PORES ENLARGE
SECONDARY SEX CHARACTERISTICS OF FEMALE
-BREAST ENLARGE
- HAIR GROWTH UNDER ARMS AND PUBIC AREA
- HIP WIDENS
- SKIN BECOMES OILY AND PORES ENLARGE
PRIMARY SEX CHARACTERISTICS OF MALE
TESTES
PENIS
SCROTUM
SEMINAL VESICLES
PROSTATE GLANDS
PRIMARY SEX CHARACTERISTICS OF FEMALE
OVARIES
FALLOPIAN TUBE
UTERUS
VAGINA
THREADLIKE STRUCTURES FOUND IN NUCLEUS OF EACH CELL OF THE BODY ARE COMPOSED OF GENES WHICH ARE BASIC UNIT OF HEREDITY
CHROMOSOMES
HOW MANY PAIRS OF CHROMOSOMES IN NUCLEUS OF EACH BODY CELL
23 PAIRS (46)
23RD PAIR OF CHROMOSOMES ARE CALLED?
SEX CHROMOSOMES
IT DETERMINES WHETHER THE INDIVIDUAL IS MALE OR FEMALE
WHAT IS THE FIRST 22 PAIRS ARE CALLED?
AUTOSOMES
This perspective studies how evolutionary forces affect sexual behaviour.
Natural selection is a process by which organisms that are best suited to their environment are most likely to survive.
Traits that lead to reproductive advanatge tend to be passed on, whereas maladpative traits are lost.
SOCIOBIOLOGICAL / EVOLUTIONARY
explained that sexuality is not a mere physical response. It involves emotions, thoughts and beliefs.
ROSENTHAL
What important in human sexual relationships according to sociobiological/ evolutionary
love, care, responsibility
the goal of evolutionary
survival
A persons libido or sexual energy is located in an area of the body at different psychosexual stages. These areas of pleasure are called _______ _____. It includes the mouth, anus and genitals.
erogenous zones
According to him human beings are faced with two forces -
sex instinct or libido(pleasure) and death or aggresisve instinct
SIGMUND FREUD
FREUD’S PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
- ORAL STAGE- child erogenous zone is mouth which receives gratification through eating and sucking
- ANAL STAGE- Anus in which sexual gratification is derived from defecation
- PHALLIC STAGE- erogenous zone is Genitals
- LATENCY STAGE- sexual impulses lie dormant as the child is occupied by social activities such going to school or playing
- GENITAL STAGE- Genitals. sexual attraction is directed towards others, opposite sex
child erogenous zone is mouth which receives gratification through eating and sucking
ORAL STAGE
Anus in which sexual gratification is derived from defecation
ANAL STAGE
erogenous zone is Genitals
PHALLIC STAGE
sexual impulses lie dormant as the child is occupied by social activities such going to school or playing
LATENCY STAGE
Genitals. sexual attraction is directed towards others, opposite sex
GENITAL STAGE
FREUD 3 STRUCTURES OF PERSONALITY
ID- pleasure and aggression
EGO- follows analytical principle. It analyze the need of Id and its consequences
SUPEREGO- persons sense of morality follows moral principle whose role is to restrict the demands of the id.
follows analytical principle. It analyze the need of Id and its consequences
EGO
pleasure and aggression
ID
persons sense of morality follows moral principle whose role is to restrict the demands of the id.
SUPEREGO
SEX is derived from latin word
SECARE= “TO DIVIDE”
Sex is not only natural, and healthy, but a sacred union is necessary to peoples physical, mental and spiritual being
TAOISM
5 RELIGIOUS
JUDAISM
ISLAM
TAOISM
HINDUISM
ROMAN CATHOLIC
Muslim men are allowed to have 4 wives but Muslim women can only have 1 husband.
Sex is permitted only within marriage and extramarital sex is penalized
ISLAM
Holds a positive and natural outlook toward marital sex which they consider as blessed by God and pleasurable by both man and woman
JUDAISM
Sexuality is seen as spiritual force and the act of love making is means of both celebrating and transcending the physical
HINDUISM
Marriage is purely for intercourse and procreation. Homosexual orientation in itself is not sinful, but homosexual acts of immoral and sinful
Roman catholic
SEXUALITY=
“TO UNITE”