Gender and

Human Sexuality Health 8. Quarter 1. Week 1&2

Gender and
Human Sexuality Health 8. Quarter 1. Week 1&2
Personality Check
Put a check (√) in the column after each item to show you how you
describe yourself.
Statements YES NO

1. I show respect and affection for others.

2. I choose friends who share the same interest.

3. I find it easy to relax and express my feelings.

4. I idolize peers and media, role personalities as sources

for standards of behavior, dress and style.

5. I get along well with other people.

Guide Question:

What is the best way to improve your personality?

 Activity
Direction: Read and analyze the following statements. If you agree, draw a happy
face; if you disagree, draw a sad face . Do this on a separate paper.
1. Teaching job is only for women.
2. Men have no right to cry in public.
3. It is the responsibility of the parents to take care of their children.
4. Father is the sole provider for the family.
5. It is not the sole responsibility of the mother to attend the PTA meetings in school.
Gender and
Human Sexuality
Sexuality is a natural and healthy part of life. It is
everything about being a male or female. It’s the most
important aspect is masculine or feminine identification.
Sex – centered on the biological basis of being a male or
female.

Gender – is a social concept on how men and women should

think, feel, and act. It refers to femininity or masculinity of a
person’s role and behavior
 GENDER
SYMBOL

MALE FEMALE
Gender Equality– permits man and woman equal
enjoyment of human rights..

Gender Role - refers to set of roles, characteristics, and

expectations of how a man or woman should feel, think,
and act as influenced by parents, peers, and society.

Gender and sexuality are two issues that affect your life as a teenager.
These two concepts have some of the greatest impact on how you view
yourself and deal with other people especially with the opposite sex.
Importance of Human Sexuality
Giving and receiving love is a human need.

It will help you appreciate your sexual identity.

You should respect your own and another person’s body.

You will experience bodily changes and you need to learn how to properly manage these changes.

It will help you appreciate how life began.

You have the right to be informed on how to be disease-free and to live a healthy lifestyle.
 Diagram showing healthy attitudes that can
influence sexual behavior.
SELF
❑ Appreciates own body
❑ Takes responsibility for own
behaviour
❑ Knowledgeable about sexuality
issues

FAMIILY PEERS
❑ Communicates effectively with family ❑ Express love and intimacy in
❑ Enable to express love to family appropriate ways
members ❑ Have the skill to evaluate readiness for
❑ Perform duties and responsibilities at mature relationships
home ❑ Interact with both genders in appropriate
and respectful ways
❑ Respect both genders an all aspects.
DIMENSION OF HUMAN SEXUALITY

1.PHYSICAL SELF
The concept of Physical Self is the
individual's perception of themselves in areas
of physical ability and appearance. Physical
ability includes concepts such as physical
strength and endurance, while appearance
refers to attractiveness.

The way you look as a man or a woman

DIMENSION OF HUMAN SEXUALITY

2. MENTAL SELF

“The sense of one's own being”, or “the

sum total of qualities.

The way you think as a man or a woman.

DIMENSION OF HUMAN SEXUALITY
3. SOCIAL SELF
The social self (sometimes referred to
as “looking-glass self” or “presenting
self”) was defined as that image that one
believes others have of him/her; and the
ideal social self-concept (sometimes
referred to as “desired social self”)
denotes that image that one would like
others to have about him/her.

The way you interact with others.

.
DIMENSION OF HUMAN SEXUALITY

4. EMOTIONAL SELF
The way you feel about yourself and others.
Emotional Self-Awareness is the capacity to tune into
your own feelings, sense inner signals, and recognize
how your feelings affect you and your performance. It is
an important skill for leadership at any level, as well as
many aspects of life.

The way you feel about yourself and others

.
DIMENSION OF HUMAN SEXUALITY

5. ETHICAL SELF
Comes from the Greek ethos "moral
character" and describes a person or
behavior as right in the moral sense -
truthful, fair, and honest. The way you
value relationships is also referring to
your Ethical self.

The way you value relationships.

 Healthy sexuality means taking high sense of
responsibility for all your actions since this can affect
self-esteem, decision-making, and behaviour.

Sexuality can be best understood through the help

of the people around you
My Declaration of Self-Esteem - "I Am Me“ By: Virginia Satir

In all the world there is no-one else exactly like me.

Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine

because I alone chose it.

I own everything about me; my body, my feelings, my

mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to
others or to myself - I own all my triumphs and
successes, all my failures and mistakes, because I own
all of me.
 I can become intimately acquainted with me.
By so doing I can love me and be friendly with
me in all my parts. I know there are aspects
about myself that puzzle me and other
aspects that I do not know, but as long as I
am friendly and loving to myself, I can
courageously and hopefully look for solutions
to the puzzles and for ways to find out more
about me.
 However I look and sound, whatever I say and do,
and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in
time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I
looked, sounded, thought and felt turn out to be
unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep
the rest, and invent something new for that which I
discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say and do - I
have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be
productive, and to make sense and order out of the
world of people and things outside of me.
 I own me, and therefore I can
engineer me - I am me and I am
okay.
Healthy sexuality encompasses the following
characteristics:

SELF LOVE- your acceptance of yourself.

SELF KNOWLEDGE- your understanding of

your feelings and your character

SELF CONFIDENCE- your awareness of the

things that you can do well
Healthy sexuality encompasses the following
characteristics:

SELF RESPECT- your regard for

yourself as a worthwhile person

SELF EXPERESSION- your way of

showing your individuality in expressing
yourself as a man or as a woman