SEXUAL

SELF
PREPARED BY:
Ada Jezrael L. Mendiola
UNDERSTANDING SEXUALITY
MORE...
• Sexual topics still create
discomfort especially when
discussed in public.
• Getting to know some factors
that affects human attraction.
HUMAN SEXUALITY IN
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
(ROOTS)
Ancient Greece
• Men assume dominant
role.
• Women are considered
objects.
• Women are forbidden
to own property and no
legal rights.
• Women's only role is to
be a mother and take
care of family.
HUMAN SEXUALITY IN
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

Middle Ages
• Church became
powerful
• Church decreed that all
sexual acts that do not
lead to procreation
were considered evil.
• Women's image in
general is purity /
saintly and desirable.
HUMAN SEXUALITY IN
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

16th century: Protestant

Reformation
• Movements were initiated
against the Catholic Church
• Protestantism believed that
sexuality is natural part of life.
• Priest should be able to marry.
• Sexual intimacy is not evil but
leads to strong bond between
couple.
HUMAN SEXUALITY IN
HISTORICAL
PERSPECTIVES
17th and 18th century:
Puritans
• Rally for a religious,
moral and societal
reformation.
• Premarital sex was
considered immoral
HUMAN SEXUALITY IN
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

1837-1901: Victorian Era (Time of

Sigmund Freud)
• Prostitution and
Homosexuality were
considered threats to social
order.
• Controversial of Freud's
Psychoanalytic Theory
• It was believe that women
should not enjoy the sexual
intercourse.
• Ejaculating for more than once
a month weakens the man.
BIOLOGICAL
PERSPECTIVES
Primary and Secondary Sexual
Characteristics
EVOLUTIONARY EVOLUTIINARY
PERSPECTIVE OF PERSPECTIVE OF
HUMAN HUMAN
SEXUALITY SEXUALITY
• Survival: • Preferences for
preference for females with large
strong people. breast (connected
• Beauty is more than to nutrition) and
just a cultural males with broad
shoulders
standard.
(connected to
Evolutionary
physical health thus
standard for
more survival) -
attracting the best INSTINCTIVELY
partner. FOR GENETIC
SURVIVAL.
PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OF
HUMAN SEXUALITY : GENDER
Gender: psychological aspects of being masculine of feminine and is
influences by culture, individual’s personality, and self-identity. includes
choice/preferences
INFLUENCES Biological influences: sexual
Gender role: cultural behaviors characteristics of the genitals,
expectations for males and hormonal differences, and possible
females. differences in brain structure and
processing.
Gender typing: process by which
people learn gender roles; Environmental influences:
ACQUISATION OF KNOWLEDGE parental influences and cultural
ABOUT GENDER ROLES. expectations to adhere to gender
roles.
Gender Identity: sense of being a
male or female (influences by Culture: individualistic/nontraditional
both biology and environment). versus collectivistic/traditional role
adoption
THEORY: JOHN LEE'S STYLES OF LOVE

• Eros : sexual and emotional

• Agape: altruistic and selfless love; expecting
nothing in return.
• Storge: love-related friendship; non-sexual
affection; love is a gradual and slow process, it
takes time.
• Ludus: love is just a game, not serious, no
commitment, no jealousy.
• Mania: obsessive and possessive; easily get jealous
and experiences in love is out of control.
• Pragma: practical lovers; business like relationship.
 Intimacy: friendly attraction, no
desire of long-term commitment.

Passion: physiological arousal, no

commitment/love at first sight.

Commitment: commitment but

no intimacy/passion (arrange
marriage.

• Romantic Love: emotional intimacy and sexual excitement:

earlier phase of relationship
• Companionate love: long deeply commitment but passion
has faded
• Fatuous love: Spend short time courtship and married
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SEXUAL
SELF
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