Sexual Self

• Sexuality is commonly defined as “the ways people experience and express themselves as sexual being.”
• Sexuality is a central aspect of being human throughout life encompasses sex, gender identities and roles, sexual orientation, eroticism, pleasure, intimacy and reproduction.
• Sex Education is not promoting sexual intercourse but to promote sexual health and safety from sexual violence.
• Sex is a person's characterization as female or male at birth
• Sex is based on the appearance of external genitalia or other biological characteristics including chromosome
• Gender is a social characteristics that

  may be (or not be) aligned with a person's sex and adopted by an individual as their gender identity
• Gender Identity is how you, in your head, think about yourself. It is the chemistry that composes you (e.g. hormonal levels) and how you interpret what that means.
• Gender expression is how you demonstrate your gender (based on traditional gender roles) through the ways you act, dress, behave, and interact.
• Biological sex refers to the objectively measurable organs, hormones, and chromosomes. Female = vagina, ovaries, XX chromosomes; male = penis, testes, XY chromosomes; intersex = a combination of the two.
• Sexual orientation is who you are physically, spiritually, and emotionally attracted to, based on their sex/gender in relation to your own.
• Puberty is a one to three-year process of hormonal and physical

  changes that causes young person to reach sexual maturity,

  girls usually entering it about a year [ or two] earlier than

  boy”
• When the erogenous zones are touched, there is an expected sensation.
• Sexual violence is any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act, unwanted sexual comments or acts to traffic person's sexuality using coercion, by any person regardless of their relationship to the victim, in any setting, including but not limited to home and work
• Lust – sex hormones present in both males and females motivate individuals to find a mate – being the main hormones responsible for

  sex drive indeed experiments have shown that altering levels of these

  hormones has implication upon sexual desire
• Attraction is an infatuation stages is driven mainly by dopamine and

  norepinephrine coupled with a decrease in serotonin levels.
• Attachment involves the hormones of oxytine (known as the love

  hormones or cuddle chemical and vasopressin.
• EXCITEMENT- arousal, penis erection, vagina lubrication
• PLATEAU- continuation and heightening of the arousal
• ORGASM- peak or intense pleasure.
• Sexual orientation refers to our sexual preferences towards males, females or both.
• The T in LGBT which stands for transgender
• “Some who do not identify as

  either male or female prefer the term “genderqueer”
• Cisgender a gender identity consistent is with the sex they were assigned at birth.
• Transgender gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth
• AGENDER people who do not identify

  with any gender
• NON-BINARY people who do not identify strictly as a boy or a girl- they

  could identify as both, or neither, or as another gender entirely
• HOMOSEXUAL sexually attracted to

  members of same sex
• BISEXUAL sexually attracted to people of both sexes
• HETEROSEXUAL sexually attracted to

  members of opposite sex
• PANSEXUAL/OMNISEXUAL can be sexually attracted to any sex or gender identity
• ASEXUAL not sexually attracted to any

  sex or gender
• A transsexual is one who moves from one sex to another through a number of surgical procedures
• Sexually Transmitted Infections Involvement in sexual contact, either vaginal, oral or anal may give temporary intense pleasure and the possibility of transmitting more than 30 different bacteria, viruses and

  parasites ('Sexually transmitted' 2016, para. 2) that may result in a lifetime of sexually transmitted infections.
• Family planning aims to provide accessible information on sexual

  and reproductive health for people to choose from, depending on their

  needs and preferences
• Contraception focuses on how to prevent pregnancy in line with family planning