Sexual Self

• Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)


  Conditions that involve the transmission of an infectious organism between sex partners
• Transmission of STDs


  By means of sexual behavior, including vaginal intercourse, anal sex, and oral sex
• Some STDs can also be contracted by sharing intravenous drug needles with an infected person
• Chlamydia


  Caused by a bacteria called Chlamydia trachomatis
• Chlamydia


  • Can infect both men and women
  • Can be acquired during oral, vaginal, or anal sex with someone who has the infection
• Herpes


  Common infection that stays in one's body for life. It causes sores on one's genital and/or mouth which can be annoying and painful
• Herpes Simplex Virus


  Two different but similar viruses: Herpes Simplex Virus type (HSV-1) and Herpes Simplex Virus type 2 (HSV-2)
• Transmission of Herpes


  Can be transmitted when one's genital and/or mouth touches the genital/mouth of the other person during oral, anal, and vaginal sex
• Herpes can even be acquired from kissing someone who has oral herpes
• Human Papillomavirus (HPV)


  In men, HPV is evident through genital warts on the penis, on the scrotum, in or around the anus or on the groin.
• Diagnosing HPV in men is difficult as it has no symptoms. The diagnosis in men is made when external genital warts are seen
• Transmission of HPV


  It can be spread through contact with the skin of someone who has an HPV infection
• Sexual self


  How one thinks about themselves as a sexual individual
• Gonorrhea


  Comes from a bacterium called Neisseria gonorrhoeae
• Sexual self


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


  • Can infect both men and women
  • Can cause infections in the genitals, rectum, and throat
  • Acquired by having vaginal, anal, or oral sex with someone being infected with the disease
• Sexual self


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


  • It starts as a sore on one's genital, rectum or mouth
  • Spreads to another person through skin or mucous membrane contacts with the sores
• Dimensions of sexual self

  • Biological
  • Social
  • Psychological
• Stages of Syphilis


  • Has 3 different stages which can overlap or happen around the same time. Some who experience it may have no symptoms at all but the infection may still be there
• Sex


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


  • Caused by infection with the protozoan parasite called Trichomonas vaginalis
  • Carried in sexual fluids like semen, pre cum, and vaginal fluid
• Primary sex characteristics


  • Reproductive organs
• Trichomoniasis


  • Most commonly infected part in women is the lower genital tract which includes the vulva, vagina, cervix, or urethra; in men, the inside of the penis and the urethra

  
• Secondary sex characteristics


  • Body hair, changing voice etc.
• Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) / Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)


  Destroys or impairs cells of the immune system and progressively destroys the body's ability to fight infections and certain cancers
• 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
• The virus has also been detected in breast milk; can be spread by breastfeeding
• 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.

  
• Not every child born to an HIV-infected mother will acquire the virus
• 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)
• Ways to Prevent HIV transmission

  • Practice safe sex
  • Properly use safe-sex supplies (such as male condoms, female condoms, gloves, etc.)
  • Avoid having multiple sex partners
  • Abstinence is 100% effective, it protects you from STDs
• Intersex


  Describe people with differences of sex development
• Natural Birth Control Method

  Only bodily changes are monitored in order to know when a female is fertile or infertile by keeping track of her menstrual cycle. It does not involve medicine or devices to prevent pregnancy. It can be done through abstinence, fertility awareness, lactational amenorrhea, and withdrawal
• 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
• Artificial Birth Control Method


  Any product, procedure or practice that uses artificial or unnatural means to prevent pregnancy
• Adolescence stage (Intersex)


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

  • condoms and diaphragms
  • hormonal methods such as the pill and IUDs
  • surgical sterilization( vasectomy )
• Adulthood (Intersex)


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


  The socially constructed roles, behaviors, expressions, and identities of girls, women, boys, men, and gender diverse people