THE SEXUAL

SELF
ENTER IF YOU DARE
“TODAY, OUR SEXUALITY IS AN OPEN-ENDED
PERSONAL PROJECT; IT IS PART OF WHO WE
ARE, AN IDENTITY, AND NO LONGER MERELY
SOMETHING WE DO.”
-Esther Perel
 SEXUALITY
“the ways people experience and express themselves as sexual
beings”
is a central aspect of being human throughout life encompasses
sex, gender identities and roles, sexual orientation, eroticism,
pleasure, intimacy and reproduction. Sexuality is experienced
and expressed in thoughts, fantasies, desires, beliefs, attitudes,
values, behaviors, practices, roles and relationships. While
sexuality can include all of these dimensions, not all of them are
always experienced or expressed (WHO, 2006a as cited in
“Defining Sexual Health,” 2018, para. 6).
OUR VIEWS ABOUT SEXUALITY IS HEAVILY
AFFECTED BY:
EDUCATION OCCUPATION
INCOME ECONOMICS
LAW POLITICS
HISTORY MEDIA
SOCIETY CULTURE
RELIGION
• ASKING ABOUT OR ADMITTING
IGNORANCE ON THE TOPIC OF SEXUALITY
IN THE PHILIPPINE CULTURE SEEMS TO BE
A TABOO OR DEGRADING.
• IGNORANCE HAS TO BE ADDRESSED
THROUGH PROPER EDUCATION
 • If more Filipinos would continue to learn,
whether formally or informally, about
proper sex education, then it may indirectly
passed on to young children through
teaching proper hygiene or through being
discerning of a child's actions, reactions,
questions, or comments about sex.

TO PROMOTE SEXUAL INTERCOURSE BUT TO

PROMOTE GOOD SEXUAL HEALTH AND
SAFETY FROM SEXUAL VIOLENCE
 SEX GENDER
refers to a person's refers to social characteristics
characterization as female or that may be [or not be] aligned
male at birth, typically based with a person's sex and
on the appearance of external adopted by an individual as
genitalia or other biological their gender identity
characteristics including
chromosomes
 • .

UNDERSTANDIN
G HUMAN
SEXUAL
RESPONSE
“ Falling in love is
stronger than sex
drive ”
Love is almost uncontrollable but sex
drive is definitely controllable.
 S E X
“love
makin
• THREE STAGES OF ROMANTIC LOVE:
1. LUST g”
2. ATTRACTION
3. ATTACHMENT
• To be able to maintain dopamine and
oxytocin, couples need to keep trying
something new together – food, movie,
hobby, travel- and they also have to
spend time with each other and feel
each other’s warmth through gentle
touch, holding of hands or hugging.
Once one decides to engage in
sexual intimacy, there is
asexual response pattern that
will occur. This pertains to
physical and emotional
responses one experiences
during sexual activity.
 • Excitement
1 • Arousal; penis erection, vagina lubrication

• Plateau
2 • Continuation and heightening of arousal

• Orgasm
3 • Peak or intense pleasure

• Resolution body returns to normal state

4
Masters and Johnson (1966)
1
•Desire

2
•Excitement

3
•Orgasm
Kaplan (1979)
DIVERSITY
OF SEXUAL
ORIENTATIO
N
 Many people who
“ have crushes on
people of same sex
never have same-sex ”
relationships
• Sexual Orientation – our sexual preferences towards males
and females or both.
• Gender identity – one’s concept of being male, female, both
or neither.
S
HOMOSEXUAL (gay/lesbian)
E
X • Sexually attracted to members of same sex
U
A BISEXUAL
L
• Sexually attracted to people of both sexes
O
R HETEROSEXUAL (straight)
I • Sexually attracted to members of opposite sex
E
N PANSEXUAL/OMNISEXUAL
T
A • Can be sexually attracted to any sex or gender identity
T
I ASEXUAL
O • Not sexually attracted to any sex
N
G CISGENDER/CIS
E
N • Consistent with the sex they were assigned at birth
D
E
R TRANSGENDER/TRANS

• Does not match the sex they were assigned at birth

I
D
E AGENDER
N
T • People who do not identify with gender
I
T
I NON-BINARY
E
S • Do not identify strictly as boy or girl (both or neither)