STRESS AND COPING AND SEXUALITY Flashcards
A physical and mental response to a
challenging or threatening situation
stres
A stressful stimulus, a condition demanding
adaptation
stressor
what nervous system prepared the body for fight or flight to allow humans for the best chance of survival
sympathetic nervous system
The body’s __ nervous
system returns to normal after the stressor
has been removed
parasympathetic
Hans Selye’s General Adaptation
Syndrome Theory proposes four stages
involved in adapting to stress:
alarm
fight or flight
exhaustion
return to normal
what are the 3 stages of the GAS
alarm reaction
resistance
exhaustion
Sudden Activation of the
sympathetic nervous system fight or flight.
alarm reaction
you face the challenge. Body
temp, blood pressure, and respiration stay
high. Can wear oneself out if maintained
for too long
resistance
you are more vulnerable to
illness, collapse, or even death
exhaustion
is about who you are
attracted to and what to have relationships
with
sexual orientation
It is also associated with the reference to
biological and physiologic characteristics
that define men and women
sexuality
• Social concept on how men and woman
should think, feel and act.
• Feminity or masculinity.
gender
• The way we experience and express
ourselves as a sexual being.
• Being male or female
• This involves biological erotic physical
emotional social and spiritual feelings and
behaviors
human sexuality
• Permits man and woman equal enjoyment
of human rights.
• Also known as sexual equality ; ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender
gender equality
Set of roles, characteristics, and
expectations on how a man woman should
feel and act as influenced by parents,
peers and society ; sex role, social role encompassing racial behaviors and attitude ; based on their actual or perceived sex
gender role
Refers to gender that is male or female to
which a person is attracted to.
sexual orientation
considered to be straight
are people who are romantically and
physically attracted to members of the
opposite sex. Men are attracted to
female and females are attracted to
males
heterosexual
are people who are
romantically and physically attracted to
people of same sex.
homosexual
romantically and physically attracted to
members of both sexe
bisexual
represented in all walks of life
across all nationalities or ethnic
backgrounds and in all social and
economic groups
gay people
found to affect
young people’s sexual behavior by
influencing children’s self-confidence and
interaction competence
family structure
reproduced both
through parental explicit prohibitions and
their own behaviors
sexual norms
Communicable disease that is spread
from person to person through sexual
contact.
sexually transmitted disease
Infecting other individuals through blood
and bodily fluids unprotected sex and
several factors associated with it
AIDS
pathogen of AIDS
HIV
best decision one can
make in safeguarding sexual health
abstinence
otherwise known as the
Philippine AIDS Prevention and Control Act
of 1998.
RA 8504
differentiates self from others gradually ; external genetials are sensitive to touch ; penile erections and vaginal lubrication
birth to 18 months
able to identify own gender
toddler ; 1-3 years
becomes increasingly aware of self ; explores body parts ; names for body parts, controls feelings and behavior
preschooler ; 4-5 years old
strong identification w parent of the same gender ; friends of same gender ; awareness of self, modesty, privacy, roles and concepts of gender
6-12 ; school age
primary and secondary sex characteristics develop ; menarche takes place, masturbation, heterosexual or homo activity ; risk for pregnancy
12-18 years ; adolescence
itching, irriration, discharge, plaque of cheesy material under foreskin
candidasis
urinary frequency, watery, mucoid urethral discharge
chlamydial urethritis
caused by HPV ; single lesions or clusters of lesions growing beneath or on the foreskin, caulilower like appearance
genital warts (condyloma acuminatum)
painful urination, urethritis with watery white discharge may become purulent
gonorrhea
presence of painful sores or lare vesicles that lasts for weeks, ruptures. itchy and lasts for a few hours to 10 days
herpes genitals
can appear from anytime to several months or years ; reduced immunity to other diseases ; night sweats, fatigue, weight loss, enlarged lymph nodes, diarrhea
HIV
chancre on glans penis, painless and lasts 4-6 weeks ; skin eruptions, low grade fever, infllmation of lymph nodes
syphillis
slight itching, moisture on top of penis, early morning urethral dscahrge ; many males are aymptomatic
trichomoniasis
few if any symptoms ; mild fever, rash, headache, joint pain, conjunctivitis, or muscle pain
zika
sexual acitivity is common ; own lifestyle and values
young adulthood ; 18-40
males and females have decreases hormone production ; menopause ; climacteric occurs gradually in male
middle adulthood ; 40-65
interest in sexuality often continues but less frequent
late adulthood ; 65 and older
refers to flexibility in gender roles ; not imply neutrality or orientation but describes the ability to adapat and be flexible
androgyny
self image as a female or male that includes physical, social, cultural aspects ; not easily changed
gender identity
outward manifestation of an individual’s sense of maleness or femaleness as well as what is perceived as gender appropriate
gender expression
tremendous variation in how individuals experience and express their sexuliaty
sexual expression
refers to an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic or sexual attractions to men, women, or both sexes ; sense of identity based on those attractions
sexual orientation
broader terms that includes all individuals who do not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth
transgender
a narrower term that includes individuals who desire to physically transition to the geder with which they identify
transsexual
kissing, licking, sucking of female genitals
cunnilingus
involves oral stimulation of the penis by licking and suking
fellatio
another term for vaginal intercourse
coitus
vasocongestion and myotonia
excitement phase
climax of sexual tension, physiologic and psychological release
orgasmic phase
period of return to unaroused state
resolution state
referes to the capacity of individuals to adjust and cope with challenging situations
adaptation
good stress
eustress
stress from bad source
distress
