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• Human Sexuality


  Includes all the mental, emotional, and spiritual characteristics associated with being male or female
• Dimensions of Human Sexuality


  • Biological
  • Psychological
  • Socio-cultural
• Biological Dimensions


  Involves physical appearance, especially the development of physical sexual characteristics, responses to sexual stimulation, ability to produce or control fertility and growth and development
• Psychological Dimension


  A major psychological factor that affects one's sexual wellness is body image
• Positive body image


  Lends itself to a feeling of overall wellness
• Negative self-image


  Can lead to drug abuse, nor psychological disorders like anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder or muscle dysmorphia
• Socio-cultural Dimensions


  The sum of cultural and social influences that affect thoughts and actions
• Socio-cultural Influences


  • Religious
  • Multicultural
  • Ethical
• Religious Influences


  Feelings about morality, sexual behaviors, premarital sexual behavior, adultery, divorce, contraceptive abortion, and masturbation
• Multicultural Influences


  Culture influences one's sexuality and sexual expressions. Human sexuality across a diversity of cultural and social settings includes beliefs regarding appropriate age of marriage, family and household system
• Ethical Influences


  Ethics and region often provide the framework within which people judge the rightness or wrongness of sexual activity and expressions
• Factors that influence one's attitudes and practices on sexuality


  • Self
  • Family
  • Peers and friends
  • School and Church
  • Mass Media
• Self


  The psychological differences between sexes help lay the groundwork for the development of psychological and social wellness and one's gender that strongly influences one's perceptions of sexual wellness
• Family


  The family environment is the usual place for forming children and young people to consolidate and exercise the virtues of charity, temperance, fortitude, and chastity
• Peers and friends


  Boys and girls socialize to play in different styles and usually learn to prefer different sets of toys
• School and Church


  The church and school play a vital role in helping parents influence adolescents' understanding about sexuality and help them make responsible and healthy sexual choices now and in the future
• Mass Media


  Exposure to media messages is a part of today's life. We all live in a 21st century media-oriented world. By creating an image appealing to the youth, media controls the variety of material the youth incorporate in their daily lives
• Sexual health


  About having a positive and respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relationships. It is also about the possibility of having pleasurable and safe sexual experiences, free from coercion, discrimination, and violence
• Parents' moral duty


  To make their children know about the mysteries of human life, because the family is, in fact, the best environment to provide children with gradual education in sexual life
• Infatuation (Crush)


  The stage of being completely carried away by unreasoning passion or love; addictive love. Usually lasts for only a short time, a few weeks or maybe a few months. The admiration for someone while not recognizing that person's flaws
• Love


  Can be described as a feeling of intense affection for someone. Based on a true desire for the other person's best interests
• Attraction


  Admiration for someone that may include the desire to get to know that person better. Usually takes place in the form of infatuation or crush. It is also an opportunity to get to know each other's background. The period in a couple's relationship which precedes their engagement and marriage. A couple gets to know each other and decides if there will be an engagement. It is also a test of compatibility between the two people
• Courtship practices at the age of technology


  You should be careful and responsible for everything you post on social media. This practice is alarming. A suitor can court using cellphones, the internet and social media. "Think before you click"
• Importance of undergoing courtship


  • It gives a person time to know better the character and background of someone being considered as one's future lifetime partner
  • It gives time to understand one another and determine if you can get along with minimal conflicts
  • It reveals one's interests, likes and dislikes, limitations, and aspirations in life
  • It allows couples to decide whether they are ready to be committed
  • It allows couples to determine and focus on what to expect in marriage
  • It develops security and establishes respect for each other
  • It develops understanding and acceptance
• Dating


  A social activity which involves two or more people generally assessing each other's suitability for a potential relationship. Can also be enjoyed as part of an already active relationship. Is an act of meeting and engaging in some mutually agreed upon social activity, together as a couple
• Types of Dating


  • Standard Date
  • Double Date
  • Group Date
• Importance of Dating


  • Strengthen the relationship
  • Spend quality time with each other
  • Observe the other person's character
  • Know one another better
  • Know one's strengths and weaknesses
• Risks of Dating


  • Date rape
  • Use of illegal drugs
  • Early and unwanted pregnancy
  • Fall prey to thieves, robbers, kidnappers, or other types of criminals
• Engagement


  A period of agreement entered between two people in love for them to be able to know each other and their families well enough to be sure that they are ready and are suited for life-long companionship
• Marriage


  The most enjoyable thing in human relationships and is the most significant event that may happen in one's life. It is a lifelong partnership of a man and a woman
• Qualities for a successful marriage


  • Good character
  • Maturity
  • Fidelity
  • Commitment
  • Love
  • Economic Readiness
• Ingredients of a successful marriage


  • Love
  • Respect
  • Care
  • Loyalty
  • Shared philosophy
  • Cooperation
  • Communication
• Relation


  A set of ordered pairs
• Domain


  The set of all x values in the relation
• Range


  Set of all y values in the relation
• Function


  A rule of correspondence that assigns to each element x in the set A exactly one element y in the set B. Must use all the x's. The x value can only be assigned to one y
• Solving a function


  1. Substitute variables

  2. Follow PEMDAS
• Linear Equation


  • 2x + 5y = 7
  • x/16 - y/12 = -1
• Solving a linear equation


  1. Rewrite in slope-intercept form (y = mx + b)

  2. Eliminate denominators by finding LCM

  3. Divide to isolate variables
• Conditional Statement


  May be true or false. It is false if an example can be found such that the hypothesis is true, and the conclusion is false. Such an example is called counterexample