SEXUAL VIEW

SEXUAL LIFE

 Most young people become involved in dating and courtship.

 Through romantic relationships, sexual behaviours are developed.

 Discusses the risk factors for sexual behaviours such as early pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases
(STIs).

 Early pregnancy and STIs among youth are major problems in the Philippines (Go -Monilla, 2018).

FREUD: DESIRE FOR PLEASURE

 All human behaviour is motivated by the desire to feel pleasure

 Eros:

- Life Instinct or Sexual Instinct.

- Known as libido (energy of life instinct).

- The physical desire, erotic tendencies, sexual desires, and the motive of sexual life.

- Energy for preserving life and others. These drives also include such things as thirst, hunger, and pain
avoidance

 Human instinct continuously seeks the pleasure of the flesh which can be satisfied through sex.

 Psychosexual stages revolve around the erogenous zones

 Erogenous zones:

- Sensitive areas of the body from which instinctual satisfactions can be obtained

- Male:

1. Mouth 5. Nipples

2. Lips 6. Scrotum

3. Neck 7. Uranium

4. Ears 8. Penis

- Female:

1. Mouth 5. Breast

2. Lips 6. Cervix

3. Neck 7. Vagina

4. Ears 8. Clitoris

- According to Monica:

1. Ears 5. Butt

2. Lips 6. Inner Thighs

3. Neck 7. Vagina

4. Breast
THREE STAGES OF LOVE (HELEN FISHER)

 Lust is driven by the desire for sexual gratification

 Attraction is characterized by the intense attention given to a desired partner.

- Craves for emotional union with that person

- Sometimes, when one is dominated by passion, one tends to do stupid and foolish acts

 Attachment is the desire to connect with another person intimately. Also called affectionate and
companionate love

THREE COMPONENTS OF LOVE (ROBERT STERNBERG)

 Intimacy: Feelings of closeness, connectedness, and bondedness

 Passion: Drives that lead to romance, physical attraction, and sexual consummation

 Commitment: The DECISION and COMMITMENT to maintain that love

SEXUAL ORIENTATION

 Person’s sexual identity anchored on what gender that they are attracted to.

 Sex refers to physical or physiological differences between males and females.

 Gender is a term that involves how a person identifies

LGBTQIA+

 Lesbian: women who are emotionally and sexually attracted to women

 Gay: men who are emotionally and sexually attracted to men

 Bisexual: attracted both to the same or opposite sex

 Transgender: gender identity that differs from their sex assigned at birth.

- Some transgender people who desire medical assistance to transition from one sex to another
identify as transsexual.

- Transgender, often shortened as trans, is also an umbrella term

 Transgender:

- Female to male

- Male to female

- Crossdressing

- Drag kings or queens

 Queer or Questioning: still exploring one’s sexuality. Not exclusively heterosexual

  Asexual: people who do not feel sexual attraction to anyone, but it does not mean that they do not engage
in sexual or romantic relationship

 Cisgender: Someone whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth.

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH LAW

 Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012

- Guarantees universal access to methods of contraception, fertility control, sexual education, and
maternal care.

- Provides for the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS and STIs.

- Aims to keep couples and women to be well-informed about available family planning methods that
they can freely use depending on their needs and beliefs.

- Aims to promote awareness among adolescents and youth on sexuality and reproductive health
through proper sex education

STI: HIV/AIDS

 Human Immunodeficiency Virus

- Transmitted through unprotected sex, contaminated, needle exchange, blood transfusion, and
during pregnancy

 Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a chronic, potentially life - threatening condition caused by
HIV.

 Treatment: main treatment for HIV is antiretroviral therapy

- a combination of daily medications that stop the virus from reproducing.

- This helps protect CD4 cells, keeping the immune system strong enough to take measures against
disease.

- Antiretroviral therapy helps keep HIV from progressing to AIDS

STI: CHANCROID

 Bacterial infection that causes sores or ulcers in the genitals. Highly contagious yet curable.
  Symptoms usually occur within four days to ten days from exposure

 Chancroid sores usually appear in the head of penis and on labia majora

 Treatment: antibiotics

STI: PUBLIC LICE

 Also known as crabs

 Very small parasites that infest the genital area

 Primarily spread through sexual contact

 Parasites are attached to the pubic hair

 May even be transmitted with contaminated clothes, beddings and other items

 People with pubic lice often experience itching in their genital region or anus about five days after the initial
infestation.

 At night, the itching will become more intense.

 Other common symptoms of pubic lice include:

- low-grade fever

- Irritability

- lack of energy

- pale bluish spots near the bites

 Treatment: Decontaminating yourself, clothes, bedding; Topical lotions or shampoos

STI: CHLAMYDIA

 Caused by bacteria

 Does significant damage to the human reproductive system

 Can infect penis, vagina, cervix, anus, urethra, eyes, throat.

 Causes: unprotected sex, unprotected oral sex, touching genitals, or during anal sex

 Treatment: treatable with antibiotics

- During the treatment time, it’s important not to have sex. It’s still possible to transmit and contract
chlamydia if exposed again, even if you’ve treated a previous infection.

STI: GONORRHOEA
  Caused by bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoeae (N. gonorrhoeae)

 Also known as tulo

 Spread through sexual fluids, including vaginal fluid and semen

 Can infect penis, vagina, cervix, anus, urethra, eyes, throat.

 Symptoms:

- Male: secretion of yellowish-white fluid from the penis and painful urination

- Female: painful urination with discharge, fever, abdominal pain

 You may get it from intercourse, anal sex, oral sex, or sharing sex toys with an infected person.

 Treatment: treatable with antibiotics

CONTRACEPTIVES

 Condom: thin material made of rubber

 Intrauterine device (IUD): small device of polyethylene plastic or thin copper wire inserted into the uterus

 Vasectomy: vas deferens (tube through which sperms are transported) of males is tied off or cauterized.

 Tubal ligation: fallopian tubes are cut and tied off.

 Withdrawal method: withdraws the penis out of the vagina before orgasm