sexual self

• This is the part of yourself where you

  learn and understand you sexual

  development and how people activity,

  beliefs, misconception and unlimited

  access from the internet on sex can

  influence your own sexual behavior.

  sexual self
• speaks of your sexual

  health, sexual orientation, gender

  identity and expression and values

  around sexuality.

  sexual self
• Is a lifelong process that starts at the moment of conception

  sexual development
• satisfaction through oral pleasure

  birth-1 year old

  oral stage
• pleasure from defecation

  1-3 years old

  anal stage
• sexual pleasure focus on genitalia(3-6)

  phallic stage
• –genitals (Oedipus complex)

  phallic stage
• none sexual energy is dormant/ inactive.

  6-12

  latency period
• -sexual maturity

  -sexual intercourse is the goal

  12 and beyond

  whole body

  genital stage
• The ovaries produce 400,000 eggs or so every 28 days. The ovum is 100,000 times larger that the sperm cell. The egg cell carries the

  X chromosome Puberty starts ages 8-13.
• The testes 200 million sperm cells/spermatozoa

  every week. The sperm cell carries the X or Y chromosome Which is the sex- determining cell

  -Puberty starts ages 10-15.
• is a persons overall sexual drive or desire for sexual activity.

  sexual motivation/ libido
• Biological factors such as the presence of androgens, estrogens

  and progesterone, prime people for sex.
• 4 cycle of sexual cycle

  excitement, plateau, orgasm, resolution
• It is an important part of who a person is and what she/he will become. It includes all the feelings, thoughts and behaviors associated with being female or male, being attractive and being in love, as well as being in a relationship that involves sexual intimacy and sensual and sexual activity.

  sexuality
• sex organ

  brain
• This is the phase which is driven by the sex hormones testosterone and

  estrogen – in both men and women. Estrogen and testosterone are two basic types of hormones present equally in men and women’s body that excite the feeling of lust within the brain.


  lust
• This phase is said to be one of the most beautiful moments of life. This

  is the phase a person actually starts to feel the love. This is the amazing time when you are truly love-struck and can think of little else.

  attraction
• neurotransmitter are involved in attraction stage

  adrenaline, dopamine and serotonin
• Is a bond helping the couple to take their relationship to advanced levels. It instigates the feeling of bearing children and falling in love with them wholeheartedly.

  attachment
• Scientists think there might be two major hormones

  involved in this feeling of attachment

  oxytocin and vasopressin
• refers to romantic and/or sexual attraction to men, women, both, or neither.

  sexual orientation
• refers to one’s inner sense of self of being a girl/woman, boy/man, other genders, all, or neither.

  gender identity
• refers to how an individual expresses his or her sense of self.

  gender expression
• It is the simple way of regulating and spacing the births of children.

  family planning
• It is giving birth to the health and economic conditions of the family,

  giving birth of the mother according to her right age.

  family planning