Part 2

• Reproductive mechanisms


  Interpreted by societies
• Human Female


  • Can bare a child
  • Society interprets this capacity as associated to womanhood, and thus, sets fulfillment of reproductive role as an expectation among women
• Human Male


  • Does not have the capability to bear the child
  • Society expects the human male to perform productive role and associates this role to men
• Psychosocial Perspective


  Exploring and understanding human sexuality in the lens of psychological social processes
• Psychosocial


  Encompassing term comprised of psychological (pertains to anything associated with mental process and behavior) and social (pertains to anything associated with human relationships, connection, and interaction)
• Primary psychological domains


  • Affect (emotions and feelings)
  • Behavior (actions both overt and covert)
  • Cognition (thought processes such as memory, perception, and information-processing)
• Sociology


  Field of science which concerns itself with the human person's realizes and experience as part of groups and institutions, including the structures and functions of these institutions, and the dynamics of human relationships with them
• Awareness


  Our conscious understanding of something
• Human Relationship


  A bond formed between two or more people, manifested through communication and interaction
• Forms of human relationships


  • Family
  • Friendships
  • Romantic relationship
  • Others
• Intimacy


  Process of knowing others and allowing others to know us
• Socialization


  Process by which we learn cultural norms and traditions
• Well-being


  State of satisfaction, meaning, and purpose
• Objective well-being


  • A kind of well-being, which is observed, outward, and can be evaluated through the presence of absence of particular elements in our environment
• Subjective well-being


  • Our personal experience of satisfaction, meaning, and purpose. It is subjective because it pertains to our own appreciation of how well we are
• Dimensions of well-being


  • Physical (physical/biological health)
  • Emotional (positive feelings; mood stability)
  • Mental (clarity of mind; healthy thought process)
  • Material (available and adequate financial and other resources)
  • Social (healthy and positive interactions and relationships with others)
• Marijuana (also known as Cannabis)


  A plant grown and used worldwide
• Mairungi (also known as Khat)


  The common name for a stimulant leaf that is chewed in much of East Africa
• Alcohol


  The most common drug and is used worldwide
• Cigarettes (also known as tobacco/cigars)

  A narrow cylinder containing a combustible material, typically tobacco, that is rolled into thin paper for smoking
• Cocaine (also known as Crack)

  Prepared from coca leaves which are greenish-yellow leaves of different size and appearance, often called the "champagne of drugs" because of its high cost
• Heroine (also known as Hammer)


  A drug obtained from morphine and comes from the opium poppy plant
• Amphetamines (also known as Speed)


  Stimulants that affect a person's system by speeding up the activity of the brain and giving energy
• Ecstasy (also known as Essence)


  A drug that speeds up the users system by increasing his/her physical and emotional energy
• Inhalants and solvents


  Chemicals that can be inhaled, such as glue, gasoline, aerosol sprays, lighter fluid, etc. These are not drugs as such and are, in fact, legally available from a large number of shops
• Love


  A complex phenomenon characterized by an affective and cognitive inclination to someone and a set of social behaviors geared towards cohesion
• Intimacy


  The psychosocial component of love; knowing and being known by someone in a deeply personal level; emotional closeness and connection
• Passion


  The emotive and physical component of love; drive towards sexual and romantic attraction
• Commitment


  Decision to engage and maintain a loving relationship
• Relationship


  Social bond between and among individuals manifested through communication and other forms of interaction. This bond may be biological or determined by social contracts such as social consensus or laws
• Robert Sternberg: 'What does it mean "to love someone? Does it always mean the same thing, and if not, in what ways do loves differ from each other!'
• Love is a human experienced differently and conceptualized
• Love is a culture universal
• Social phenomena


  Events or experiences which ensue within our interaction and relationship with other people
• Loving entails communication
• Loving entails the use of a language
• Emotions


  Physiological responses that we evaluate psychologically as we experience particular life events
• Basic emotions


  • joy
  • sadness
  • fear
  • disgust
  • anger
• Complex emotions


  Involve the people involved, the place and time where the emotion is experienced
• Neurobiologically, the experience of love is associated with various parts of our brain