Understanding Self (Uself) Flashcards
The beginning of the adolescence is mark by
rapid physical changes, including the
maturation of the reproductive system and the
development of _______ and _________ sex
characteristics.
Primary; Secondary
“The essence of love is the gift of myself. No other
gift, no other service can substitute for myself. Love
is a very personal, intimate gift. Some part of myself
must be given- or my act is not an act of love at
all.”
James Sullivan
Are the physical
characteristics present
at birth.
Primary
Develops during the
onset of puberty.
Secondary
AKA balls) are 2
ball-like glands inside your scrotum. They
make sperm and hormones like testosterone.
Testicles
is a tube where your sperm
matures.. And it holds your sperm before you
ejaculate (cum).
EPIDIDYMIS
is a muscle that moves your
scrotum and testicles closer to your body. This
happens when you’re cold, you’re aroused,
or when someone touches your inner thigh.
CREMASTER
makes a fluid that helps your sperm move. It’s about the size of a golf ball.
Prostate Gland
Produce a fluid called
pre-ejaculate or pre-cum. It reduces friction so your semen can
move more easily.
COWPER’S GLANDS
The urethra is the tube that carries urine (pee),
pre-ejaculate, and semen to your urethral opening and out of your
body.
Urethra
2 small organs that produce
semen, the fluid that sperm moves around in.
SEMINAL VESICLES
also called the head or tip of
your penis. This is where pre-ejaculate and
semen come out of, and it’s where you pee
out of.
Glans
extends from the tip to where
it connects to your lower belly. It looks like
a tube. Your urethra is inside the shaft.
Shaft
is a patch of skin that
covers and protects the head. When your
penis gets hard, the foreskin pulls back and
the tip is exposed.
Foreskin
is where your foreskin meets the underside of your penis. It looks like a small V just below the head. Usually part of it remains after circumcision.
Frenulum
is the sac of skin that hangs below your penis. Your scrotum holds your testicles and keeps them at the right temperature. Scrotum is covered with wrinkly skin and hair.
Scrotum
Ridge of tissue around
the glans of the penis.
Corona
is a canal that joins the
cervix (the lower part of uterus) to the
outside of the body. It also is known as the
birth canal.
Vagina
is a hollow, pear-shaped organ that is the home to a developing fetus. The uterus is divided into two parts: the cervix, which is the lower part that opens into the vagina, and the main body of the uterus, called the corpus. The corpus can easily expand to hold a developing baby.
Uterus
are small, oval-shaped glands that are located on either side of the uterus. The ovaries produce eggs and hormones.
Ovaries
serve as pathways for the ova (egg cells) to travel from the ovaries to the uterus. Fertilization of an egg by a sperm normally occurs in the fallopian tubes.
Fallopian Tubes
are folds of
skin around your vaginal opening.
Labia
are
usually fleshy and covered with
pubic hair.
labia majora
are inside your outer lips.
labia minora
Everyone’s is a
different size. It can be about as
small a pea or as big as a thumb.
Clitoris
right below your urethral opening.
OPENING OF THE VAGINA
After puberty, it’s covered with pubic hair.
It cushions your pubic bone.
MONS PUBIS
They release fluid that
lubricates your vagina when you’re turned on.
BARTHOLIN’S GLANDS
The hymen is the thin, fleshy tissue that stretches
across part of the opening to the vagina.
HYMEN
swells when you’re turned on.
Some people like the feeling of having their G-spot touched.
G-SPOT - Gräfenberg spot,
The urethral opening
is the tiny hole that you pee out of, located just below your
clitoris.
OPENING OF THE URETHRA
Individuals having accessory
reproductive structures that do
not match their gonads
PSEUDO-HERMAPH
RODITES
Failure of the testes to make their
normal descent
CRYPTORCHIDISM
Narrowing of foreskin of the male
reproductive organ and misplaced
urethral openings.
PHIMOSIS
are describe as the parts of the body that are chiefly sensitive and
cause increased sexual arousal when touched in a sexual manner.
EROGENOUS ZONE
Main erogenous zones include:
Mouth
Breasts (consisting of nipple
and lateral breast tissue)
Reproductive organs such as
penis and vagina
Anus
Neck, thighs, abdomen, ears
and other body surface.
Defined as an activity – solitary, between persons, or in a group that
includes sexual arousal.
HUMAN SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
TWO MAJOR FACTORS OF HUMAN SEXUAL
BEHAVIOR
A. Inherited Sexual Response
B. Degree of Restraint
means ensuring reproduction that are part of each individual’s genetic
inheritance.
Inherited Sexual Response
Influence exerted on the individual by society in the expression of his
sexuality.
Degree of Restraint
the insertion of the male reproductive organ into the female reproductive
organ.
COITUS
depends on society, is sexual activity practiced
by
people before they are married.
PREMARITAL
seen as obligation, is a socially sanctioned long-term
mating
arrangement .
MARITAL
condemned/double standard, occurs when a
married person engages in sexual activity with
someone other than his or her spouse.
EXTRAMARITAL
ignored, Sex with your ex; often shameful, and rarely a good idea. The imbibing of too much alcohol and the existence of too much loneliness are contributing factors to this condition.
POST MARITAL
describe the changes that occur in
the body as men and woman become sexually aroused. This
include excitement, plateau, orgasm and resolution phase.
A sexual-response cycle
degree to which
a person’s physical traits are regarded as pleasing or
beautiful.
PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS
-determining who are the appropriate
as lovers and spouses.
SOCIAL NORMS
attraction is result of an exchange process (sharing of social things).
SOCIAL EXCHANGE
includes a complex combination of
different emotions such as anger, fear, sexual desire,
jealousy which may also be the sources of sufferings.
ROMANTIC LOVE
ROSENBERG COMPONENT
OF LOVE
INTIMACY
PASSION
COMMITMENT
refers to the decision to love and
the commitment to maintain that love.
COMMITMENT