Sexuality

• Sexuality


  encompasses complex emotional attitudes, preferences and behaviors related to expression of the sexual self and eroticism
• Gender identity


  a person's sense of his or her own masculinity or femininity
• Gender identity


  is thought to be established in part by how the individual was treated by his or her parents as a child, by hormonal influences in utero and by psychosocial factors
• Gender roles


  are composed of behaviors, attributes, and attitudes and individual conveys about being male or female
• Oedipus complex


  strong attachment of a preschool boy to his mother, the boy shows signs of competing with his father for mother's love and attention
• Electral complex


  strong attachment of a preschool girl to his father, the boy shows signs of competing with his mother for father's love and attention
• Sexual response cycle

  Excitement, plateau, orgasm, resolution, refractory
• Excitement


  occurs with physical and psychological stimulation, penis erection clitorial enlargement/vaginal lubrication
• Plateau


  penis and clitoris continue to enlarge, reached before orgasm
• Orgasm


  shortest stage, ejaculation foe men, contraction of vagina
• Resolution


  external and internal genital organs return to an unaroused state
• Refractory phase


  occurs during which further orgasm is impossible. Women do not undergo this period so impossible for another orgasm, while male do
• Female has two types of orgasm: clitoral and vaginal
• During menstrual period, at luteal phase women may be more interested in initiating sexual relations
• Women may be more interested in initiating sexual relations when they are pregnant
• Types of sexual orientation

  heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexual
• Heterosexuality


  person finds sexual fulfillment with the opposite sex
• Homosexuality 


  person finds sexual fulfillment with same sex
• Bisexuality


  achieves sexual satisfaction from both opposite and same sex
• Transsexual


  (transgender) an individual who feels as of he/she is the opposite gender, some may have sex change operation
• Celibacy


  sexual abstinence
• Masturbation


  self stimulation for erotic pleasure
• Erotic stimulation


  using of visual materials such as magazines and photographs for sexual arousal
• Fetishism


  using objects or situations for sexual acts
• Transvestism


  individual who dresses in the clothes of opposite sex
• Voyeurism


  obtaining sexual arousal by looking at another person's body
• Sadomasochism


  sadism and masochism
• Sadism


  a person who inflicts pain
• Masochism


  receives pain to achieve sexual satisfaction
• Exhibitionism


  revealing one's genitalia in public
• Bestiality


  sexual relations with animals
• Pedophiles


  sex with children
• Necrophilia


  gets sexual pleasure in having sex with the dead
• Erectile dysfunction


  referred to as impotence, inability to produce or maintain an erection long enough for vaginal penetration or partner satisfaction
• Premature ejaculation


  ejaculation before penile-vaginal contact
• Persistent sexual arousal syndrome


  excessive and unrelenting sexual arousal in the absence of desire
• Vaginismus


  involuntary contraction of the muscles at the outlet of the vagina when coitus is attempted that prohibits penile penetration
• Dyspareunia


  pain during coitus
• Aspermia


  absence of sperm