SEXUAL SELF

Human Sexuality
• Sex education
Basic Concepts In The
Study Of Sexuality
Sexuality
• refers to the ways by which
humans experience and express
themselves as sexual beings
Sex
• Latin: “to cut or divide”; is expressed in the binary of male or female
due to having external genitalia of penis and vagina; results from
biological structural differences between males and females
Gender
• signifies the state or experience of being male or female; results from
socialization within one’s culture
• Gender identity - concept of being male or female.

• Gender roles - behavioral expectations for both male and female

• Gender expression - how a

person objectifies his or her
gender identity

• Sexual orientation - one’s

erotic attraction and
romantic interest with the
opposite or same gender
 The Structure and Development of Our
Sexual Body
23rd pair of chromosome

XX (female); XY (male)

end of the 2nd month of pregnancy - sexual

differentiation
Primary Sexual Characteristics
Secondary Sex Characteristics

Menarche
Nocturnal Emissions
Sexual Behaviour • when we stimulate our
bodies for sexual
• expression or satisfaction
suppression of sexual • when we share erotic or
feelings and thoughts affectionate feelings with
others to add meanings
in our relationships
• when we engage in a
sexual act with another
being for the purpose of
reproduction
Why Do We Even
Feel The Urge To
Do So?
Erogenous Zones
• primary erogenous zones
• secondary erogenous zones
The Human Sexual Response Cycle
Biological Bases of Lust, Love, And
Attachment
 The Psychology Of Sexual Response

Human sexual behaviors

are:

• not instinctive or biologically

determined
• mediated by psychological forces
• shaped by learning, experiences,
environmental, social, and
cultural forces
Sex: A Way to Fulfill
Psychological and “the need to belong, to be
Spiritual Needs one with someone, to feel
the strengths and
vulnerabilities of the self and
the other, the need to be
good about oneself, to know
one’s worth, to be valued
and respected, to share one’s
innermost thoughts and
feelings with another soul, to
escape one’s isolation and
alienation, and many more
(Diamond,2014)”
 • PMS, multiple sex, casual sex,
Filipino Teenage pornography, cohabitation
Sexuality • FUBU or FB
Issues: An • STIs
Overview • Teenage pregnancy