sexual self

• Sexual self


  How one thinks about themselves as a sexual individual
• Sexual self


  • Speaks of sexual health, sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression and values around your sexuality
• Sexual self


  • One of the fundamental drives behind a person's feelings, thoughts, and behaviors
• Dimensions of sexual self

  • Biological
  • Social
  • Psychological
• Sex


  Organs such as ovaries-defining what it is to be a female-or testes-defining what it is to be a male
• Primary sex characteristics


  • Reproductive organs
• Secondary sex characteristics


  • Body hair, changing voice etc.
• Hormones


  Chemical messengers produced by the body's glands, travel through the bloodstream to affect growth, sexual characteristics, the ability to have children, metabolism, personality, and mood swings
• Sex hormones


  Instruct reproductive organs to develop or mature in preparation to have children one day. Estrogen and Testosterone are responsible for secondary sex characteristics which leads to male-female differences.
• Difference of Sexual Development (DSD)

  Term used when a person is born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn't fit the typical definitions of female or male (i.e. hormones, chromosomes, and internal/external reproductive structure)
• Intersex


  Describe people with differences of sex development
• Intersex infant may have

  • No vaginal opening
  • Labia that do not open
  • Penis without a urethral opening
  • Smaller penis than expected
  • Larger clitoris than expected
• Adolescence stage


  • Secondary sex characteristics have unusual development or absence of it (e.g. menstruation, male breast growth)
• Adulthood


  • Discover upon trying to conceive, while others may find out during an unrelated medical procedure (e.g. having no uterus, undescended testes)
• Gender


  Socially constructed roles, behaviors, expressions, and identities of girls, women, boys, men, and gender diverse people
• Gender identity


  What is inside us; it is how we feel about our own gender and how you express your gender through clothing, behavior, and personal appearance regardless of your assigned sex
• Cisgender


  People who identify with their sex assigned at birth
• Transgender


  People whose gender identity do not coincide with their sex
• Sexuality/Sexual orientation


  Your sexuality is about who you are attracted to, sexually and romantically. This is also called your sexual orientation where one's physical attraction and emotional attraction overlap.
• Physical attraction


  The characteristics of a person that might make you physically or sexually attracted to them
• Emotional attraction


  The characteristics of a person that might make you emotionally or romantically attracted to them
• Sexual orientation


  • Heterosexual
  • Homosexual
  • Bisexual
  • Pansexual/Queer
  • Asexual
• Sex and gender are often thought of as binary categories: that is, we can be either male or female, or feminine or masculine. However, with regards to their social implications, sex and gender are spectrums that encompass large areas that we have may not even be aware of.
• Gender roles


  A set of social expectations about behaviors, characteristics, and thoughts for what is considered masculine and feminine (how they are expected to act, speak, dress, groom, and conduct self based upon our assigned sex)
• Gender stereotype


  Generalized view of preconception about attributes or characteristics, or the roles that are or ought to be possessed by, or performed by women and men
• Sexism


  Stereotypes about gender that cause unequal and unfair treatment because of a person's gender. Root of gender inequality: sexist jokes, excluding participation, rigid gender roles, shaming, etc.
• Emotional self


  Ability to respond to the ongoing demands of experience with the range of emotions in a manner that is socially tolerable and sufficiently flexible to permit spontaneous reactions as week as the ability to delay spontaneous reactions as needed
• Emotional regulation


  Involves initiating, inhabiting or modulating one's state or behavior in a given situation
• Emotional expression


  Observable verbal and nonverbal behaviors that communicate an internal emotional or affective state
• Emotional intelligence


  Capacity to be aware of, control, and express one's emotions and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically
• Emotional granularity


  Ability to differentiate between the specificity of their emotions
• Modal model of emotion

  • Situation
  • Attention
  • Appraisal
  • Response
• Lust


  Driven by Testosterone, Estrogen

  
• Attraction


  Driven by Dopamine, Norepinephrine, Serotonin
• Attachment


  Driven by Oxytocin, Vasopressin
• Love


  Driven by sex hormones, testosterone and estrogen

  
• Attraction


  A beautiful moment when a person actually starts to feel love
• Attachment


  A bond helping the couple to take their relationship to advanced levels. It instigates the feeling of bearing children and falling in love with them wholeheartedly
• Triangular theory of love by Robert Sternberg


  • Intimacy: feelings of closeness, connectedness, and bond ness
  • Passion: feelings and desires that lead to physical attraction, romance, and sexual fulfillment
  • Decision/Commitment: feelings that lead a person to remain with someone and move toward shared goals
• Family planning


  Having the desired number of children and when you want to have them by using safe and effective modern methods. Proper birth spacing is having 3 to 5 years apart, which is best for the health of the mother, her child , and the family.