The totality of oneself as a sexual

being, including positive and

negative concepts and feelings.

This encompasses sexual

health, sexual orientation,
gender identity and expression
and values around sexuality.
 Sexual development is a
lifelong process that starts at
the moment of conception.
It can be predicted as part of the
human development but not
everyone is expected to have the
same pattern of changes or the
pacing.
 ’

Freud believed that every

child goes through a
sequence of developmental
stages and that child’s
experience during these
stages determine adult
personality characteristics
 : ORAL STAGE
MOUTH
ORAL INCORPORATIVE/
ORAL AGRESSIVE

Frustration – fed on a Schedule-fed: tight lipped

minimal schedule to meet people who eat only for
nutritional requirements nourishment

Overindulgence – fed at Demand-fed: gives rise to

any time the child wants oral pleasures
 : ANAL STAGE
ANUS
ANAL-RETENTIVE
ANAL-EXPULSIVE

Frustration – parents Controlling: stringent,

demand exacting control
of bowel habits
Overindulgence – parents
allow child freedom or is
lenient in bowel
selective of your friends,
orderly, tidy
Uncontrolled: gullible, lax,
disorganized, careless,
messy
 : PHALLIC STAGE
GENITALS
OEDIPUS & ELECTRA
COMPLEX

Heterosexualizing Boys will grow up seeking a

interactions. woman like his mother.
Girl will grow up wanting to
Jealousy develops. have a male child.
Problems with parent- Homosexuality if
identification. identifications are reversed.
 : LATENCY
NONE
NONE

Reduction of sexuality in Reality principle and learning

a child. of skills.
 : GENITAL
WHOLE BODY
MATING, DATING and
SOCIAL INTERACTION

Sublimate sexual energy

Sexual instincts and
conflicts Deliquency
Attraction to mystical
Death instincts philosophies and other etc.
Life instincts IT’S NORMAL!
Puberty is the period of life when the reproductive organs grow
to their adult size and become functional under the influence
of rising levels of gonadal hormones (testosterone in males
and estrogen in females)
Directly related to reproductive NOT directly related to reproductive
organs and external genitalia organs and external genitalia

Penis and scrotum Facial hair and deeper

growth voice

Ovary, uterus, vagina, Enlarged breasts and

clitoris & labia growth hips
 Sexuality is about our sexual feelings, thoughts, attractions
and behaviours towards other people.
We can find other people physically, sexually or emotionally attractive, and all those things
are a part of our sexuality.
 Sensuality

Sexual
Sexualization

Human
Intimacy

Sexuality
Reproduction
Sexual
and Sexual
Identity
Heath
 Awareness and feeling about your own body and other
people's bodies, especially the body of a sexual partner.

Body image
Satisfying skin hunger
Experiencing pleasure
Feelings of attraction for another person
Fantasy
ability to be emotionally close to another human
being and to accept closeness in return

Liking or loving another person

(share and care)
Emotional risk-taking
(vulnerability)
Sexual identity is a person's understanding of who she/he is
sexually, including the sense of being male or of being female.

3 INTERLOCKING PIECES
Gender identity
Gender role
Sexual Orientation
These are a person's capacity to reproduce and the behaviors
and attitudes that make sexual relationships healthy and
enjoyable.

Factual information about

reproduction
Feelings and attitudes
Sexual intercourse
Contraceptive information
Aspect of sexuality in which people behave sexually to influence,
manipulate, or control other people
Often called the "shadowy" side of human sexuality

Flirting
Seduction
Sexual harassment
Rape
Incest
WHY DO WE FALL IN LOVE?
Testosterone Dopamine Oxytocin
Estrogen Norepinephrine Vasopressin
Serotonin