Gender and

Society
Instructor: Jessa Christine T. Flores
 Table of contents

Gender & Sexuality

01 Sex, Gender
&Sexuality
02 Across Time

Risky Behaviors
03 of Adolescents 04 Gender & Sexuality as
Psychosocial Issues
GENDER AND SEXUALITY
AS A SOCIAL REALITY:
Sex, Gender & Sexuality
Lesson Objectives:
-Differentiate sex, gender, and sexuality;
-Discuss the implication of these differences; and
-Contemplate about your own sexuality and on the
importance of appreciating sexual diversity.
What does it mean to
be feminine or
masculine?
What does it mean to
be a male or female?
 What is sex?
SEX- biological dimension of your
gender and sexuality. It is often assigned at birth.
• Men have penis and testicles
• Female have vagina
 Hermaphroditism
Comes from Hermes, a male Greek god, and Aphrodite, a female Greek
goddess.
A person having both male and female sex organs or other sexual
characteristics.
Intersexuality is a naturally occurring variation in humans and animals
MALE : higher testosterone levels (sex drive and aggressions) ; XY
sex chromosomes 
FEMALE : higher estrogen and progesterone levels (lactation,
menstruation, and other female reproductive functions); XX sex
chromosomes 
GENDER - The social interpretation of sex; masculinity,
femininity, etc. Humans are meaning-making organism. Our
ability for higher order thinking and our tendency to create
social norms, allow us to attach social and cultural meanings
to things, including our sex.
Example: Males are typically expected to be masculine and
females are expected to be feminine.
Heteronormativity - follows the assumption that both intimate
and marital relations are best fitted between opposite
members of sex. 
 SEX GENDER
Psychosocial Social

Related to reproduction Cultural

Congenital Learned behavior

Changes overtime
Unchanging Varies within a culture/ among
culture
GENDER IDENTITY - aspect of our gender is our
sense of who we are. How we see and experience
ourselves as a man, woman or neither.
Transgenders cases wherein a person’s biological sex
does not align with one’s gender identity.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION- Another aspect of gender
pertains to our emotional and sexual attraction to a person. It is a
term used to refer to a person's pattern of emotional, romantic, and
sexual attraction to people.
Asexuality- defined as a lack of sexual attraction;
an asexual is someone who is not sexually
attracted to anyone.
Straight/Heterosexual - you're sexually attracted to
the opposite sex only.
Pansexual - The prefix “pan-” means “all” ; attracted to
people of all genders. Many pansexual people describe
themselves as being attracted to people based on
personality, not gender.
 Bisexuality 
Is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior toward both
males and females, or to more than one sex or gender.
 Queer
Is an umbrella term that can be used by anyone under the
LGBTQ spectrum. Queer conveys both an orientation and a
sense of community.
 Gay or Lesbian (homosexual)
People who are attracted to people of the same sex