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• Sexuality


  Encompasses nearly every aspect of our being, from attitudes and values, to feelings and experiences. It is influenced by the individual, family, culture, religion/spirituality, laws, professions, institutions, science, and politics.
• Aspects of Sexuality


  • Sensuality
  • Intimacy
  • Sexual Identity
  • Sexual Health & Reproduction
  • Sexualization
  • Gender identity
  • Sexual orientation
• Sensuality


  Our level of awareness, acceptance, and enjoyment of our own and others' bodies
• Intimacy


  Our ability to express and have a need for closeness with another person
• Sexual Identity


  Our biological sex—the anatomical parts, hormones, and chromosomes we have at birth
• Sexual Health & Reproduction

  Our attitudes and behaviors toward our health and the consequences of sexual activity
• Sexualization


  Our use of power and influence to manipulate or control others with our sexuality
• Gender identity


  How we feel about and identify as our gender (masculine, feminine, gender non-conforming)
• Sexual orientation


  Who we are sexually attracted to (straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, pansexual)
• Sexual meaning makes us realize the need for some measure of fulfillment that only the other can give
• One has to be free from self-centeredness by opening one to the other person
• A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found. For a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy
• Making someone happy
• Commitment


  Consists of care, concern, and responsibility. Safeguarding the other's value. Responsibility to and for one another. Humanizing.
• Human sex is dehumanizing if and when it destroys a person's honor, and becomes a degradation of the other
• Natural Law


  Human sexuality is sacred and a God-given Gift
• Kant


  Act as to treat human as always, an end, never as means
• Rawls


  Justice is fairness. Never take advantage of persons for own personal gains and satisfaction
• Fletcher


  Prostitution out of necessity and survival may be legitimate
• Fundamentals of Marriage


  • Love & commitment
  • Sexual Fidelity
  • Humility
  • Patience & forgiveness
  • Time
  • Honesty & Trust
  • Communication
  • Selflessness
• Moral Dilemmas


  • Sex outside marriage
  • Homosexuality
  • Contraception
  • Artificial Reproduction
  • In vitro fertilization
  • Surrogate Motherhood
  • Abortion
  • Rape
• Three out of ten of all pregnancies end in induced abortion. Nearly half of all abortions are unsafe, and almost all of these unsafe abortions take place in developing countries.
• Access to safe abortion protects women's and girls' health and human rights.
• Unsafe abortion can lead to immediate health risks – including death – as well as long-term complications, affecting women's physical and mental health and well-being throughout her life-course. It also has financial implications for women and communities.
• Unsafe abortion procedures may involve the insertion of an object or substance (root, twig, or catheter or traditional concoction) into the uterus; dilatation and curettage performed incorrectly by an unskilled provider; ingestion of harmful substances; and application of external force.
• Rape


  Unlawful sexual activity, most often involving sexual intercourse, against the will of the victim through force or the threat of force or with an individual who is incapable of giving legal consent because of minor status, mental illness, mental deficiency, intoxication, unconsciousness, or deception.
• Rape was long considered to be caused by unbridled sexual desire, but it is now understood as a pathological assertion of power over a victim.
• Statutory Rape


  Sexual intercourse with a person below the age of consent, where consent is no longer relevant. It may also refer to any kind of sexual assault committed against a person above the age of consent by an individual in a position of authority.