UTS

• Sexual Self


  It refers to how one thinks about themselves as a sexual individual
• Sexual Self


  It 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.
• Biological

  Social

  Psychological


  Three Dimension of Sexual Self
• 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 characteristic


  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

  Mood Swings


  Hormones affects:
• 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
• No vaginal opening

  Labia that do not open

  Penis without a urethral opening

  Smaller penis than expected

  Larger clitoris than expected


  Intersex infant may have:
• 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


  Refers to the 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


  Is about who you are attracted to, sexually and romantically.
• Sexual Orientation


  Where one's physical attraction and emotional attraction overlap.
• Physical Attraction


  Refers to the characteristics of a person that might make you physically or sexually attracted to them.
• Emotional Attraction


  Relates to the characteristics of a person that might make you emotionally or romantically attracted to them.
• Heterosexual


  People attracted to a different gender often call themselves straight
• Homosexual


  People attracted to people with the same gender (gay or lesbian)
• Bisexual


  Attracted to both men and women often call themselves bisexual
• Pansexual/Queer


  People whose attraction regardless of gender (male, female, transgender, genderqueer, intersex, etc.)
• Asexual


  People who don't experience any sexual attraction of anyone
• Gender Identity


  Is how you, in your head, think about yourself. It's 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.
• Sexual Diversity


  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