Understanding Sexual Identity

defined as how one thinks about himself or herself as a sexual individual.

In Greek word gyne which means?

a group of people who were discontented with the Church of England rallied for religious, moral and societal reformation. They had positive view on marital sex and did not tolerate sex outside marriage. Premarital sex, therefore, was considered immoral.

homosexuality and prostitution were rampant and considered to be threats to social order. People in this era were not comfortable in discussing breast or buttocks, they used other terms instead.

It is that initiates and organizes sexual behavior. through the process of sexual reproduction, the next generation of human beings are created by the fusion of the egg cell and sperm cell. This will be discussed further in the next pages.

is a process by which organisms that are best suited to their environment are most likely to survive.

A person’s libido or sexual energy is located in an area of the body at different psychosexual stages. These areas of pleasure are called?

According to him, human beings are faces with two forces – sex instinct and libido (pleasure) and death or aggressive instinct (harm toward oneself or towards others).

For the it holds a positive and natural outlook toward marital sex which they consider as blessed by God and pleasurable for both men and women. Sexual connection provides an opportunity for spirituality and transcendence

For them family is considered of utmost importance, and celibacy within marriage is prohibited.

According to them sex is not only natural and healthy, but a sacred union necessary to people’s physical, mental, and spiritual being. The sexual union is a way to balance male and female energy.

For them sexuality is seen as spiritual force, and the act of ritual lovemaking is a means of both celebrating and transcending the physical

For them marriage is purely for intercourse and procreation

A male sexual organ consisting of the internal root and external shaft and glans

the portion of the penis that extends internally into the pelvic cavity.

the head of the penis; richly endowed with nerve endings

the length of the penis between the glans and the body

a covering of skin over the penile glans.

the rim of the penile glans

– a highly sensitive, thin strip of skin that connects the glans to the shaft on the underside of the penis.

– encompasses all female external genital structures – the hairs, fold of skin, and the urinary and vaginal opening

a triangular mound over the pubic bone above the vulva

the foreskin or fold of skin over the clitoris

the head of the clitoris; richly endowed with nerve endings

the length of the clitoris between the glans and the body

the innermost tips of the cavernous bodies that connect to the pubic bones

the area of the vulva inside the labia minora

– a stretchable canal in the female that opens at the vulva and extends about four inches into the pelvis

the folds of tissue in the vagina

the small end of the uterus, located at the back of the vagina

a pear shaped organ inside the female pelvis, within which the fetus develops

female gonads that produce ova and sex hormones

two tubes in which the egg and sperm travel, extending from the sides of the uterus

emerge at puberty (such as low voices and beards in men, and high voices and no facial hair in women).

are there from birth (for example, penises and vaginas

is the stage of physical maturation in which an individual becomes physiologically capable of sexual reproduction

The five stages of Freud's psychosexual theory of development

the child erogenous zone is the mouth which receives gratification through eating and sucking.

is an inappropriate object (a shoe for example) that is substituted for a woman and used for sexual gratification.

4 stages of human sexual response

It is characterized by an increase in heart rate and blood pressure as well as heightened muscle tone

This is the body’s initial response to sexual arousal

It is characterized by intensification of the changes begun during the excitement phase.

This is the period of sexual excitement prior to orgasm

This is characterized by waves of intense pleasure (climax), often associated with vaginal contractions in females and ejaculation in males.

In this phase the body returns to its non-excited stage

was coined near the end of the nineteenth century and used in the early twentieth century by some psychologists to describe how simple pressure to these parts of the body could arouse complete orgasm in what were defined as hysterical persons (generally understood to be women).