Human Sexuality and Reproduction Quiz

Human Sexuality and Reproduction

• Human sexuality encompasses physical, emotional, and spiritual responses, thoughts, and feelings. It's about who a person is, not just what they do.
• Sexuality is expressed through sexual sensations and intimacy.
• Human sexuality has five components: sensuality, intimacy, identity, sexualization, and sexual health and reproduction.
• Sensuality involves awareness of, acceptance of and comfort with one's own body and comfort with others' bodies, including physiological and psychological enjoyment.
• Intimacy is the ability and need for emotional closeness with another person and having it returned. Identity is developing a sense of self, including maleness or femaleness. Sexualization is using sexuality to influence or control others. Sexual health and reproduction concern attitudes and behaviors related to reproduction and health consequences of sexual behaviors.

Philosophy of Sexuality

• Conceptual analysis clarifies fundamental notions of sexual desire and sexual activity and defines concepts like adultery, prostitution, rape, and pornography.
• Normative philosophy explores the value of sexual activity and pleasure, addressing questions of sexual morality.

Sex vs. Gender

• Sex refers to biological differences like genitalia and genetic makeup.
• Gender describes psychological (gender identity) and sociological (gender role) representations of sex.
  • Cisgender individuals have gender identities that align with their birth sex.
  • Transgender individuals' gender identities don't align with their birth sex.
• Sexual orientation is attraction to others, including same gender (homosexuality), opposite gender (heterosexuality), both genders (bisexuality), all genders (pansexuality), or neither (asexuality).
• Sexual behavior encompasses the ways humans experience and express their sexuality, including fantasies, like replacement fantasies.

Sexual Types of Behavior

• Masturbation is self-stimulation for pleasure.
• Coitus, or vaginal-penile intercourse, is a sexual act.

Marriage

• Marriage is a socially recognized union with sexual and economic rights and duties.
• Marriage typically involves a man and a woman, and is established based on law.
• Main forms of marriage:
  • Monogamy is marriage with one person at a time.
  • Polygamy is marriage to more than one person at a time.
    • Polygyny (man with multiple wives)
    • Polyandry (woman with multiple husbands)
    • Group marriage (group of men with group of women)

Fundamentals of Marriage

• Key elements for healthy marriage: connection, commitment, giving, respect, trust, and intimacy.
• Different types of intimacy include: emotional, intellectual, physical, sexual, and spiritual intimacy.

Issues in Marriage

• Premarital sex is sexual activity before marriage, with potential risks such as STDs, multiple partners which can lead to a desire for variety, pregnancy, and adoption / abortion.
• Adultery/Concubinage is sexual activity by married person with someone who is not their spouse.
• Cohabitation involves living together without marriage, potentially providing benefits like reduced expenses but can also bring uncertainty for the couple.
• Prostitution involves sex for payment, historically more common in women, though men and transgender individuals can participate in prostitution and can exhibit both heterosexual or homosexual behavior.

Homosexuality and Other Sexual Orientations

• Homosexuality involves attraction to people of the same sex.
• Other orientations include bisexuality (attraction to both genders), transsexuality (biological sex does not align with gender identity), pansexuality (attraction regardless of gender identity/sex), queer (used by LGBT+ people), transvestism (comfort wearing the opposite sex's clothing), and polysexuality (sexual attraction towards collective/groups based on gender not anatomical sex).
• Asexuality is a lack of sexual desire.

Issues on Contraception

• Contraception involves preventing pregnancy through various means.
• Moral issues regarding contraception arise concerning its permissibility across different cultures and religions.
• Age, culture, and religion play a role in a person's view of contraception.

Artificial Reproduction

• Infertility is the failure to conceive after 12 consecutive months of intercourse.
• Assisted reproductive techniques, like IVF and artificial insemination, can help couples have children. Issues with methods such as IVF and Artificial insemination and include moral and ethical considerations and religious perspectives.
• Surrogacy involves a woman carrying a baby for another, with various ethical concerns.

Ethical Considerations In Health Care

• Nurses have ethical responsibilities in providing care related to sexuality and reproduction. These include ensuring confidentiality, obtaining informed consent, treating patients with respect, promoting the patients' autonomy and rights, and treating patients fairly.

Palliative Care & Advance Directives

• Palliative care aims to improve quality of life for patients with serious illnesses. Goals are symptom relief, affirming life, avoiding hastening and delaying death, and supporting patients and families.
• Advance directives are legal documents outlining a patient's wishes for medical care, especially for scenarios where they cannot make decisions themselves, including living wills, durable power of attorney, and surrogate decision-makers. Ethical concerns surrounding these directives include competency assessments, ensuring patient wishes are honored, and respecting cultural and religious beliefs.

Test your knowledge on the key components of human sexuality, including sensuality, intimacy, identity, sexualization, and sexual health. This quiz will explore how these elements interact and influence lives. Discover the philosophical aspects that underpin our understanding of sexuality.